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Tilley, the community owned wind turbine on Tiree

The Power Shift: Lessons from communities already making renewables work for them

Co-published with The Herald On the windswept island of Tiree, a four-hour ferry ride from ...

By Rhiannon J Davies, The Scottish Beacon

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Reflections on a ‘Ceilidh Theatre’ experiment exploring the renewable energy question

This week saw the Spring Collective present ‘a collision of presentations’, song, poetry, provocations and ...

By Mike Small

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Sharon Hill, MAEDT

Growing community wealth with food and love in Midlothian

Sharon Hill is one of those people who just makes things happen. It’s no coincidence ...

By Lucas Batt & Rhiannon Davies, Greater Community Media

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Glenfarg Community Bus

How Glenfarg rebuilt its bus service – and its future

“You’re regularly told that ‘this bus has changed my life’.” Drew Smart is one of ...

By Lucas Batt & Rhiannon Davies, Greater Community Media

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Wind turbine

Tiree: Powering Community Wealth Building with renewable energy

Approaching the wind-buffeted island of Tiree after a four-hour ferry journey, visitors and residents alike ...

By By Lucas Batt & Rhiannon Davies, Greater Community Media

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MAEDT community garden and pantry

Community Wealth Building isn’t new – Scotland’s communities have been doing it for years

Across Scotland, people are quietly transforming their local economies. They’re running bus services, opening community ...

By Jill Keegan, Scottish Community Alliance

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The Power Shift: Lessons from communities already making renewables work for them

On the windswept island of Tiree, a four-hour ferry ride from Oban, a solitary community-owned ...

By Rhiannon J Davies

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Solar panel company focussed on one thing to outlast challenges of renewable sector

A renewable energy company has soared to success by focussing on a core product that ...

By Marc Hindley, editor of Forres Local

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UOG Turbine tower build

Speculating on the Wind in the Hebrides

Published in partnership with The Herald As commercial windfarms are being lined up for development ...

By N. Sopata, Fios – The Newspaper for North Lewis 

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Chris Bunyan & Eleanor Gear

How Shetland Turned Division into £72m of Community Benefit

Published in partnership with The Herald THE KEY to a successful community benefit fund from ...

By Hans J Marter, Shetland News

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View 745ft (225m) above Achintoul in Altass, with the proposed sites for several wind farm developments, from left to right: Inveroykel, Strathoykel, Collie Beith, Allt an Tuir and Invercassley. Of the 88 turbines projected in these sites, some have a height of about 225m. By Gregor Laing

Renewable developments: Highland communities demand more planning democracy 

Published in partnership with The Herald “It seems [Scottish Ministers Alastair Allan and Gillian Martin] ...

By Silvia Muras, Kyle Chronicle

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