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/
• Glasgow: https://locohome.coop/

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
• Declaration of Torry Peoples’ Assembly 28th of May 2023 (PDF) https://www.torryassembly.net/s/Declaration-of-Torry-A6-booklet-v1-2.pdf
• Updates on the retrofit project https://www.torryassembly.net/about-retrofit

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/

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 rebecca@sccan.scot

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/

Our Story Weaver, Kaska Hempel, talks to Alex Daniels from Transition Dundee about gleaning, fair access to fresh food and his favourite glut-busting recipes.

Transcript

See our website: https://sccan.scot/blog/everyday-changemakers-alex-transition-dundee/

Credits

Interview, recording and sound production: Kaska Hempel

Resources

Register for 1000 Better Stories Collective skillshare with Manuela and Daniel from Maxwell Centre in Dundee, 30 May, 1-2pm

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/904908354247

Gleaning Project at Transition Dundee

https://www.transitiondundee.com/gleaning

The Gleaning Network

https://gleaning.feedbackglobal.org/

West End Community Fridge

https://www.transitiondundee.com/community-fridge

Campy Growers

https://campygrowers.uk/

Kris Harbour off grid living

https://www.krisharbour.co.uk/

Transition St Andrews

https://transitionsta.org/

Roasted cauliflower dip

https://www.cookincanuck.com/roasted-cauliflower-dip-recipe-vegan/

Our Story Weaver, Kaska Hempel, talks to Paul and Chloe about making dreams come true and turning the forgotten patch of land into a safe place for community connection and play.

The story is the last one in the five-part Dumfries series of Everyday Changemakers.

Transcript

See our website: https://sccan.scot/blog/everyday-changemakers-paul-and-chloe-sandside-community-garden/

Credits

Interview, recording and sound production: Kaska Hempel

Resources

Sandside Community Garden facebook page

https://www.facebook.com/sandsidegarden/

Gilbert’s coffee grounds composting project on Cycling Dumfries website

https://cyclingdumfries.wordpress.com/2023/06/12/trailer-tuesdays/

Scottish Government’s Adaptation Plan consultation, closes on 24th of April

https://www.adaptationscotland.org.uk/news-events/stories/scottish-national-adaptation-plan-public-consultation

Adaptation Scotland

https://www.adaptationscotland.org.uk/

Tenth consecutive monthly heat record alarms and confounds climate scientists, Jonathan Watts, The Guardian, 9 Apr, 2024

https://www.theguardian.com/global/2024/apr/09/tenth-consecutive-monthly-heat-record-alarms-confounds-climate-scientists?CMP=fb_gu&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR0Afp1lIWMzhzDZIChyxx0m-ji3_rgn-MtISK2lPJj0nTmB0MJ1i3qOZ6A#Echobox=1712642938