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The Power Shift

The Power Shift: democratising energy, seizing power

As the chokehold of over-extended supply chains for shipping massive amounts of fossil fuels is ...

By Mike Small

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Telling better stories

What happens when no one is watching? When local stories go untold, communities lose more ...

By Rhiannon J Davies

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Attendees of the power shift live event

New environmental journalism network and magazine launched to tell better stories of Scotland’s energy boom

“We’re here because we want to tell better, richer stories about our communities; not ignoring ...

By Eve Livingston

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The Power Shift LIVE: launch of new magazine and environmental journalism network

The Power Shift Live is a one day event happening in Glasgow on 10 April, ...

By Mike Small

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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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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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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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Scottish Beacon Group Members

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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