SEAD (Scottish Education and Action for Development)

Climate commentators are billing 2009 as the year the planet will sink or swim, arguing that a strong intergovernmental deal is needed at November’s UN climate talks is Copenhagen, to ensure a habitable future on our planet. Find out more about the Copenhagen talks, and read a round-up of last month’s climate talks in Poznan, Poland. Read the rest of Poznan Climate Talks Update and the Countdown to Copenhagen …

Green New Deals are in the news. Brown and Obama both want investment in renewable energy to create jobs. Japan and Korea too have announced big programmes of green investment. So what is a Green New Deal? How should we approach them as communities and campaigners? Read the rest of “Green New Deal”: A Primer, by Plane Stupid campaigner Rich Shore …

A sneak preview of a new movie and a link to a short animation on climate change. Also funding opportunities and support for individuals, groups and communities… Read the rest of Resources: supporting community action …

If not, it appears you are not alone and it is not to late to have your say! Yet we only have a very short time frame in which to prove we have not been consulted and to call on the Scottish parliament to postpone the NPF process until we have been properly consulted. Read the rest of Have you been consulted on the National Planning Framework 2? …

On December 6th 2008, four hundred people from all over Scotland filled the streets of Glasgow to call for just solutions to climate change. The march, part of a Global Day of Action, was one of 70 international demonstrations coinciding with the UN Climate Talks in Poznan, Poland. Read the rest of Scottish Climate Change March on the Global Day of Action, 2008 …