Useful links

Campaigning groups

  • Holyrood 350
    Holyrood 350 is campaigning for the Scottish Government at Holyrood to take immediate action to stop accelerating climate change by radically reducing our carbon emissions and so setting a global example for other countries to follow.
  • People and Planet
  • The Fife Diet
    The Fife Diet asks people to sign-up to eating food from Fife, for a year, monitor their progress and share their experience. This is a celebration of local goodness not an exercise in self-denial.

Composting

  • Home composting
    Changeworks’ home composting page. Here you can find information and advice to help you start composting in your own garden.

Energy

  • Community Energy Scotland
  • Ecotricity
    Turn your electricity bill into a windmill
  • Energy Saving Trust
    Home insulation to save money and the environment
  • Energy Saving Trust
    The Energy Saving Trust is a non-profit organisation that provides free and impartial advice on how to stop wasting energy.
  • Good Energy
    The only totally renewable electricity supplier.
  • Kinsale Energy Descent Plan
    This plan was produced at Kinsale FEC by Rob Hopkins and the college’s second year students, and was, as far as we know, the first attempt by a community to design an intentionally designed way down from the oil peak.
  • Zero-carbon Britain
    A low carbon vision for the future.

Food

  • Edinburgh Community Gardening Activists
    Guerrilla gardening in Edinburgh
  • GRAIN
    International NGO promoting the sustainable management and use of agricultural biodiversity based on people’s control over genetic resources and local knowledge.
  • The Fife Diet
    The Fife Diet asks people to sign-up to eating food from Fife, for a year, monitor their progress and share their experience. This is a celebration of local goodness not an exercise in self-denial.

gardening

Land Reform

  • Andy Wightman
    The author of Who Owns Scotland and The Poor had no Lawyers. Andy Wightman is an independent writer and researcher on issues of land and democracy with a particular interest in community land rights.
  • Asset Transfer Unit
    The Asset Transfer Unit helps to empower local people and organisations to transform land and buildings into vibrant community spaces whilst supporting the development of a thriving third sector.
  • Development Trusts Association Scotland
    About development trusts in Scotland, and their community based regeneration work
  • Isle of Eigg
    The Isle of Eigg Heritage Trust was set up in 1997 to secure the island’s future and to provide its small population with the opportunity to grow under their own initiatives and efforts.
  • Isle of Gigha
    The community owned Isle of Gigha
  • Land Reform Act
    Helping communities across Scotland exercise their rights under the Land Reform (Scotland) Act through the provision of independent advice and support
  • Who owns Scotland?
    Andy Wightman’s ‘Who owns Scotland?’ website: Scottish and International Perspectives on Land Tenure, Land Reform, Land Use and Social Land Ownership

Local trading & bartering

Orchards

  • Community Woodlands Association
    The Community Woodlands Association was established in 2003 as the direct representative body of Scotland’s community woodland groups. They help community woodland groups across the country achieve their aspirations and potential, providing advice, assist
  • Edinburgh Community Gardening Activists
    Guerrilla gardening in Edinburgh
  • Scottish Children’s Orchard
  • The Commonwealth Orchard
    The Commonwealth Orchard is a Scotland wide scheme to plant community, school and Children’s Orchards. The idea is to plant new trees, celebrate and map existing orchards, and to pick and eat the produce – as well as to use orchards for a wide range of ar

Recycling

Transition Towns

  • Kinsale Energy Descent Plan
    This plan was produced at Kinsale FEC by Rob Hopkins and the college’s second year students, and was, as far as we know, the first attempt by a community to design an intentionally designed way down from the oil peak.
  • Transition Edinburgh
    This web site is in transition – it will gradually develop into a useful resource for people involved, or interested, in Transition Edinburgh.
  • Transition Scotland
    The Head, Heart & Hands of Energy Descent in Scotland
  • Transition Towns
    It all starts off when a small collection of motivated individuals within a community come together with a shared concern: how can our community respond to the challenges, and opportunities, of Peak Oil and Climate Change?

Transport

Weblogs