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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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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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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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Carsphairn Seeks Balance Between Renewable Development and Rural Life

Published in partnership with The Herald Tucked between the Rhinns of Kells and Cairnsmore of ...

By Sarah Ade, freelance journalist and editor of Glenkens Gazette

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The Scottish Beacon: A Collaborative Approach to Telling Scotland’s Local Stories

As someone who founded an independent, hyperlocal publication – Greater Govanhill magazine – I know ...

By Rhiannon J Davies, The Scottish Beacon

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The Power Shift: Renewables, Communities and the Question of Who Really Benefits from Scotland’s Green Energy Revolution

Published in partnership with The Herald As the world leaders gather in Brazil, to discuss ...

By Mike Small, The Scottish Beacon 

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The Great Energy Heist

Orkney has a long history in  the use of renewable sources of energy. In 1955 ...

By Fiona Grahame, The Orkney News

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Protesters outside Rockstar Games' Edinburgh office hold up 'union busted?' sign. Courtesy of The Edinburgh Reporter.

Protests held after Rockstar games accused of ‘union busting’

Edinburgh-based game developers, Rockstar Games, have been accused of ‘union busting’ after over 30 members ...

By Liam Eunson, Midlothian View

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