Parents for Future Scotland: Let’s make this election about people, not profit
Parents for Future Scotland urge election candidates to address rising energy costs for families like the Andersons in Glasgow amid ongoing cost of living concerns. Support their Warm This Winter campaign for emergency aid and a shift to renewable energy.
‘We do it for the joy’: Women on Wheels
Women on Wheels founder, Shgufta Anwar, the local cycling pioneer who’s battled family disapproval to bring two-wheeled travel to over 900 Glasgow women tells more about how her faith has inspired her journey – and what she hopes for as politicians juggle climate ambition with reality on the ground.
The Value of Water
“It is only until you have carried your own water that you know the value of it” - African proverb. Writing for our COP26 special publication, The Scottish Beacon, Chinyanta Kabaso looked at the importance of climate justice in the struggle against at climate change - and how young people with the YCSA have been working towards a more diverse climate movement.
‘If We Can’t Dance, It’s Not Our Revolution’: The Southside Community Soundsystem
On the day of the biggest climate justice march in Glasgow, the Southside feeder march was kept buoyed by a community built soundsystem that encapsulated the spirit of the area, with a nod to the political beginnings of sound-system culture
Five Ways to Stay Positive in the Face of Climate Meltdown
“The climate crisis is huge and scary. Even the most environmentally aware of us instinctively want to suppress that fear, to put it on the bottom of the mental list and wish it would go away”. The fight for climate justice wearing you down? Read a handy illustrated guide for an environmentally-conscious morale boost.
Knowing the Value of Water
Originally published in our COP26 special issue, Chinyanta Kabaso wrote about the need for climate literacy education to be delivered to people who are under-represented and who have struggled against injustice.