SEAD (Scottish Education and Action for Development)

Finally, the long-awaited birth of our online toolkit – a work in progress which depends on your feedback to make it as good as it can be. The idea is that together we create a community action hub to help people all over Scotland find inspiration, ideas, networks and resources to help make positive change happen – in our own backyards and in the global neighbourhood. Read the rest of A brand new resource for community action …

The RBS was recently shamed as the coal industry’s biggest UK backer, putting up a massive $15.93 billion for new coal projects in the last two years. The bank was exposed in the report Cashing in on Coal, produced by a group of environmental organisations led by Platform and including SEAD and Friends of the Earth Scotland. They are are calling for a consumer-led campaign to pressure the bank into changing their funding policy.

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Visiting the Linlithgow Climate Challenge group and afterwards talking to the group’s chair Peter Roberts, we discovered that six months ago there was no group, no strategy, nowhere for Linlithgow residents to turn for advice or support on climate issues. Now, things look very different- there’s a strong group on a big mission: to be an information hub for the local community on the threat of climate change and what they can do about it. Read the rest of In Profile: Linlithgow Climate Challenge …

This August, the ‘Climate Camp’ pitched its tents outside Kingsnorth coal power station in Kent, to protest proposals to build the UK’s first new coal station in over thirty years on this site. There was a strong Scottish presence at the camp because if a new Kingsnorth is built it will open the door to a whole new generation of dirty coal stations, two of which would be sited in Scotland. Read the rest of The Camp for Climate Action …