1000 Better Stories

We continue on our theme of climate change fuelled flooding and how we are adapting to it in Scotland. In the last two episodes we touched on responses from creative organisations and farming. Today we focus on future-proofing of newly built public buildings. 

In a podcast crossover, we share an episode from CampusCast series at Fife College, which focused on their Dunfermline Learning Campus as a pathfinder project for The Net Zero Public Sector Buildings standard. It’s the only pathfinder project that incorporated adaptation into their work, supported by Scotland’s Public Sector Climate Adaptation Network. The new campus is featured in the newly published Scottish National Adaptation plan as a case study.

CampusCast hosts, Sharrell Carroll and Naomi Wadsworth, are joined by industry expert Jonny Casey (Head of Climate Ready Leadership, Sniffer) to introduce climate adaptation, highlight what they are up to at Fife College and what you can do to get started with climate adaptation. 

Credits: 

CampusCast: Showcasing Sustainability podcast

Hosts: Sharrell Carroll & Naomi Wadsworth

Creative Director: Sharrell Carroll

Producer, Writer & Editor: Sharrell Carroll

Project Manager: Hayley Williamson

Researchers: Sharrell Carroll, Hayley Williamson & Naomi Wadsworth

Contributors & Advisors: Hayley Williamson & Naomi Wadsworth

Additional contributors: Lucy Jackson, Ethan Moss, and the Fife College community.

Music: Uppbeat

Resources

CampusCast on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/110lS6bEVS0JcEIuU6XV1M?si=6b976a1750d74128

CampusCast on Adaptation Scotland website: https://adaptation.scot/our-work/fife-college-podcast-on-climate-adaptation/ 

Net Zero Standard https://www.netzerostandard.scot/ 

National Adaptation Plan for Scotland https://adaptation.scot/about/about-the-scottish-governments-national-adaptation-plan-snap3/

Scottish Public Sector Climate Adaptation Network  https://adaptation.scot/our-work/public-sector-climate-adaptation-network/ 

SCCAN Adaptation resource pages https://sccan.scot/climate-adaptation/ 

In this episode, we share a recording of a panel discussion on Farming and Water held at the Groundswell Outreach regenerative farming meet up at the Falkland estate in Fife, last July. The session explores how landscape-level, regenerative management can help us adapt to the climate-induced extremes of floods and droughts. It also touches on the barriers to implementing such an approach. 

The panel was led by Ian Davis and included Alister Leggatt, Lyn White, and Cees Kamp and Anthony Ellis. 

This is the second in a short series focusing on flooding and adaptation stories this month.

Credit

Recording and edit: Kaska Hempel

Music extracts from “Song Shall Be Our Measure”, by Jessica Kerr, performed by herself, Kirsty Orton and Aaron McGregor

Poem written and performed by Sophie Cooke “The overpromised land”

Both works were commissioned as one of the creative inputs into the Scottish Ecological Design Association’s (SEDA) session on integrated land use at GO Falkland.

Resources

Groundswell https://groundswellag.com/ 

GO Falkland https://falklandestate.co.uk/go-falkland/ 

Videos from GO Falkland 2023 and 2024 https://www.youtube.com/@GOFalkland/videos

Video of SEDA’s session on Solving the Land Use Jigsaw Puzzle at GO Falkland 2024 https://youtu.be/8TxnHG9JwU8?si=RcNYuRmVXMDlU_JP

Integrated Trees Network - Scottish Forestry https://www.forestry.gov.scot/support-regulations/farm-woodlands/integrating-trees-network 

Affinity Water https://www.affinitywater.co.uk/ 

“Water is Love” film https://www.waterislovefilm.org/ 

5 Principles of Regenerative Agriculture https://groundswellag.com/principles-of-regenerative-agriculture/ 

Our Story Weaver, Kaska, talks to Everyday Changemaker Simone Stewart at the Barn’s “Plenty?” Festival in Banchory last October. They discuss degrowth and snails, storm Frank’s influence on the Barn’s creative direction, and the value of improvisation and community in an emergency. One year on, they also reflect on the impact of last year’s flooding which interrupted the festival.

This is the first in a short series focusing on flooding and adaptation stories this month.

Credits

Recording, interview and sound production: Kaska Hempel

Resources

Storm Babet Stories from Angus https://sccan.scot/blog/storm-babet-a-watershed-moment-for-angus/

The Barn https://www.thebarnarts.co.uk/ 

Newton Harrison’s The Deep Wealth of This Nation, Scotland https://www.thebarnarts.co.uk/artist/newton-harrison

Becoming Earthly at the Barn https://www.thebarnarts.co.uk/article/becoming-earthly-at-the-barn 

Far Orchard Network at the Barn https://www.thebarnarts.co.uk/article/the-far-orchard 

Manfred Max-Neef’s fundamental human needs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manfred_Max-Neef%27s_Fundamental_human_needs 

What is degrowth? A beginners guide by Eilidh Connolly The Barn blog ttps://www.thebarnarts.co.uk/article/what-is-degrowth-a-beginners-guide 

Degrowth reading list from Creative Carbon Scotland https://www.creativecarbonscotland.com/springboard-2023/reading-list/

Degrowth in Scotland on We Talk podcast (early 2022) https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nico-ndlovu

In this cross over episode from Harbour Voices podcast by Open Road, we hear a story of Hans Unkles' all electric lobster boat.

This is first episode in Harbour Voices Festival of the Sea series which gives an important historical perspective to the stories of Torry People's Assembly we published recently.

Credit

Open Road

Resources

“Harbour Voices” podcast: https://www.openroadltd.com/projects/harbour-voices/ 

 “It’ll never work - an all electric electric lobster boat” documentary https://itllneverwork.boats/ 

SCCAN collection of climate-engaged podcasts in Scotland: https://sccan.scot/blog/on-the-way-to-1000-better-stories-ten-scottish-climate-podcasts/

Retrofit coordinator, Matthew Clubb, talks through benefits and options of the retrofit project for Torry in Aberdeen. This is a recording of a talk from GO Torry! event in June 2024.

Credits

Recording and edit: Kaska Hempel

Resources

Listen to "GO Torry - growing resilience one year after peoples' assembly" https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-736yg-16bfd67

Community-driven regional retrofit support services:

• Edinburgh: https://www.edinbric.scot/

SCCAN Members Skillshare presentation: https://youtu.be/6vP8lU_ZykA?si=26qExfvvdq3SBWOQ

• Aberdeenshire: https://nesfit.org/

SCCAN Members Skillshare videos: https://youtu.be/AjQLdnk82Vo?si=KQSG93qfrsO2yXEJ

Our Everyday Changemakers interview with Tom Nockolds Loco Homes  https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-nf6kq-1493f27

Our Story Weaver, Kaska, revisits Torry in Aberdeen for a GO Torry event, celebrating community's growing resilience in the wake of People's Assembly and its Declaration last Spring. We hear of RAAC and retrofit, outdoor classrooms and stealthy resistance, poetry and community with a heart.

Credits

Production: Kaska Hempel

Resources

1000 Better Stories podcast episode about Torry Peoples’ Assembly of May 2023 – putting “just” back into “just transition”  https://www.podbean.com/eas/pb-5q33x-14be025 

 NEW! Torry Assembly website – with: 

• Tullos poetry zine from GO Torry event https://www.torryassembly.net/tullos-poetry-zine-1

Information about Torry Peoples Assemblies on the Grassroots to Global website https://www.grassroots2global.org/torry-peoples-assemblies 

Communities Assembly training by Grassroots to Global, early 2024 – SCCAN video series https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL727H-1nm_P25ueYx18ikvYroPMTGZ91-&si=dfN-nYxvbbaKQ3Ra

Just Transition Communities Project (NESCAN Hub) https://www.nescan.org/just-transition-communities 

Station House Media Unit https://www.shmu.org.uk/ 

Friends of St Fittick’s Park https://saintfittickstorry.com/ 

Aberdeen Ethnic Minority Women’s Group https://www.abdn-emwomen.org.uk/

North East Scotland Mammal Network (FB group)

https://www.facebook.com/groups/335588875705435/ 

The Bridge Centre, Torry FB page https://www.facebook.com/thebridgecentretorry/ 

Social Juice https://www.social-juice-cic.co.uk/

St Fittick’s Park court appeal fails https://hellorayo.co.uk/greatest-hits/aberdeen/news/st-fitticks-lose-legal-challenge-over-park-development/ 

Our Story Weaver, Kaska Hempel, talks to Gareth Allenby from YMCA Glenrothes about weaving climate action into life journeys of young people experiencing homelessness and the joys of judging coleslaw competitions.

YMCA Glenrothes Healthy Living Garden project was one of the community groups that received a small community grant from the Fife Climate Action Hub last year. Apply for your grant here: https://fccan.org.uk/community-climate-grants/ 

Listen to our story about First Year of Fife Climate Action gathering https://scottishcommunitiesclimateactionnetwork.podbean.com/e/year-one-of-fife-climate-hub-deepening-the-network-for-action/

Transcript 

See our website: https://sccan.scot/blog/everyday-changemakers-gareth-allenby-ymca-glenrothes/

Credits

Interview, recording and sound production: Kaska Hempel

Resources

Healthy Living Garden at YMCA Glenrothes https://www.ymca.scot/glenrothes/garden-open/ 

Sustainable Growing Event, Fife Climate Festival, at the Healthy Living Garden https://fccan.org.uk/events/ymca-glenrothes-fife-sustainable-growing-event/  

Seed and Development Fund, Fife Climate Hub https://fccan.org.uk/community-climate-grants/ 

Climate Hubs Across Scotland  https://sccan.scot/network-building/

Year One Of Fife Climate Hub - deepening the network for action (1000 Better Stories episode): https://scottishcommunitiesclimateactionnetwork.podbean.com/e/year-one-of-fife-climate-hub-deepening-the-network-for-action/

In this Edinburgh Fringe special, Kaska speaks to Lewis Coenen-Rowe about the trees and myths that inspired his deforestation opera STUMPED, becoming an artist activist, and about the importance of coming together for storytelling like this to help us imagine a better future and take collective action. 

STUMPED is showing at the Scottish Storytelling Centre starting this week and each performance ends with a short reflection from a different invited expert or community group involved in caring for trees and forests. 

Transcript 

See our website: https://sccan.scot/blog/stumped-at-the-fringe-stories-trees-and-collective-action/

Credits

Interview and production: Kaska Hempel

Music: Exerpts from STUMPED by Lewis Coenen-Rowe, performed

Resources:

Lewis’ website https://www.lewiscoenen-rowe.com/ 

STUMPED opera on Insta https://www.instagram.com/stumpedopera/ 

STUMPED opera on FB https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61557738514898&paipv=0&eav=AfZnr8aawmI-pzLrXUqtBT8rRZPKYyr8XH0MzRopZFZWSG8u_4NpXcaSEijReX9dubs

Made in Scotland Showcase https://www.madeinscotlandshowcase.com/ 

Creative Carbon Scotland https://www.creativecarbonscotland.com/ 

Scottish Storytelling Centre https://www.scottishstorytellingcentre.com/ 

Alliance for Scotland’s Rainforests https://savingscotlandsrainforest.org.uk/

Kaska Hempel reports from the Fife Climate Hub gathering in celebration of their first year. We hear how they have built on longstanding partnerships, welcomed new faces and the critical importance of leadership from governments in support of the urgently needed community climate action.

Consider this leadership when voting in general election on the 4th of July.

Reviews of party manifestos on environment:

Carbon Brief (Energy and climate only) - includes SNP and other minor parties

https://www.carbonbrief.org/uk-election-2024-what-the-manifestos-say-on-energy-and-climate-change/

Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth UK (energy and climate, nature and environment, homes and transport, justice and democracy) - only Conservatives, Labour, Lib Dems and Greens 

https://friendsoftheearth.uk/system-change/general-election-2024-manifestos-final-scores 

Credits

Recording and production Kaska Hempel

Music Victoria Hume, Oblivious Structures from Radical Abundance album. https://www.lostmap.com/products/victoria-hume-radical-abundance

Resources

FCCAN - Fife Climate Hub

https://fccan.org.uk/

River Eden Partnership

https://www.riveredenfife.org/

YMCA Healthy Living Garden

https://www.ymca.scot/glenrothes/garden-open/

St Andrews Botanic Gardens

https://www.standrewsbotanic.org/

The Curnie Clubs

https://www.facebook.com/FifeCurnieClubs/ 

Big Green Market

https://www.facebook.com/BurntislandGreenMarket 

Climate Action Fife

https://www.climateactionfife.org.uk/

Fife Environment Partnership COP conference

https://www.fife.gov.uk/news/2023/fife-environmental-partnership-hosts-fife-climate-conference

Fife Environment Partnership

https://www.fife.gov.uk/kb/docs/articles/have-your-say2/community-planning

Paper Boats

https://paperboats.org/

Women’s climate action

https://womensclimateaction.net/

Kathleen Jamie’s poem What the Clyde Said After COP26

https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/what-the-clyde-said-after-cop26/

SCVO Scotland

https://scvo.scot/

SCVO Growing Climate Confidence resources including Climate Scorecard for Socially focussed community organisations

https://climateconfident.scot/

Climate Cafe

https://www.climate.cafe/ 

Victoria Hume Radical Abundance

https://www.lostmap.com/products/victoria-hume-radical-abundance?utm_medium=order-details&utm_source=customer-accounts&utm_content=name

Oblivious Structures

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmc8woJ6ppg

“Less is more how degrowth will save the world” by Jason Hickel

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/441772/less-is-more-by-jason-hickel/9781786091215 

Climate Outreach - Leadership on Climate

https://climateoutreach.org/britain-talks-climate/climate-big-picture-2024/leadership/ 

Climate hub stories on 1000 Better Stories channels:

Climate Action Hub Pilots - connecting local communities for change

https://www.podbean.com/eas/pb-kqdw6-12e1778

Edinburgh Communities Climate Action launch day (blog)

https://sccan.scot/blog/edinburgh-communities-climate-action-launch-day/ 

TsiMoray Connect the Dots conference (blog)

https://sccan.scot/blog/join-the-dots-tsimorays-annual-conference-connecting-ideas-people-moray/ 

Our Story Weaver, Kaska Hempel, talks to Rebecca Gibbs from SCCAN about rollerblading for sanity, turning NET zero into NOT zero and the invitation to get into climate adaptation planning with us.

Transcript 

See our website: https://sccan.scot/blog/everyday-changemakers-rebecca-gibbs-sccan/(opens in a new tab)

Credits

Interview, recording and sound production: Kaska Hempel

Resources

Rebecca can be reached on [email protected]

NEW! SCCAN Adaptation for Communities resources and news

https://sccan.scot/climate-adaptation/ 

Storm Angus - contribute your stories of impacts of recent storms on Angus 

https://www.angusclimatehub.co.uk/storm-angus 

Climate Regional Networking Project

https://sccan.scot/network-building/ 

Cadence Roundtable

https://cadenceroundtable.org.uk/ 

Pollock Park

https://www.glasgow.gov.uk/article/4187/Pollok-Country-Park

Galgael Trust

https://www.galgael.org/

Not Zero - How net zero targets disguise climate inaction (Report PDF) https://whatnext.org/research_pubs/not-zero-how-net-zero-targets-disguise-climate-inaction/

Prof Kevin Anderson on Net Zero 

-Short video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEk0uQ7nPV8 

-In depth video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUwSNuHlve8&t=3s

Carbon Capture and Storage explainer from Juice Media 

-(sweary version) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSZgoFyuHC8&t=2s

-(PG version) https://youtu.be/ThnLghO3Pv8?si=EBXIgUAa8dKZ3ddf 

Roller Stop https://rollerstop.co.uk/ 

Climate Psychology Alliance

https://www.climatepsychologyalliance.org/

National Consortium for Societal Resilience [UK+]: New Zealand Community Emergency Response Hubs 

https://youtu.be/yNdF9kWG1A4?si=H1yg5xeJId8eAAhq

Adaptation Scotland Community Climate Adaptation Routemap https://www.adaptationscotland.org.uk/how-adapt/tools-and-resources/community-climate-adaptation-routemap

Flood Mary

https://floodmary.com/ 

Global Assembly

https://globalassembly.org/