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In this crossover, we share an episode of the CycleHub Stories podcast A Journey of a Bike Time. Cycle Hub.Org director Scott Francis talks about why the organisation was formed. We meet David, who comes to the Dundee Cycle Hub to donate a bike with a story. We also hear from Fiona Brunton, Engagement Coordinator for the Students Association at Abertay University.   Enjoying the podcast? Share the story with others, review or rate our show.   Credits: Production, interviews and editing: Sally Pearson - volunteer for Cycle Hub.Org.   Resources:   CycleHub Stories A Journey of a Bike Time podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/7uJ2e2McKNUujOYkKmIVf3?si=23d88782a74d46cd    Cycle Hub.Org’s website: https://www.cyclehub.org/ Abertay Students Association: https://www.abertaysa.com/

In this crossover, we share an episode of Edinburgh Communities Climate Action Network’s new podcast series Climate Jam. Host Eirini talks to Pianodrome’s co-founder Tim Vincent-Smith about the story behind building the world’s first Pianodrome in Edinburgh. They discuss the importance of community, circular economy and how a project needs a soul to make it work. Enjoying the podcast? Share the story with others, review or rate our show. Credits: Production, interviews and editing: Eirini Chatzidaki. Resources: ECCAN’s Climate Jam Podcast: https://www.eccan.scot/climatejam-podcast Pianodrome website: https://www.pianodrome.org  ECCAN’s website: https://www.eccan.scot/

In this episode, Kaska Hempel explores the ideas behind the Narrating Change workshop - a creative experiment in using storytelling to bring community voices into climate adaptation policy-making. You will hear from researcher and workshop lead Emma Yule, and community participant Luke Fraser who is based in Orkney. They share what they got out of the session, and reflect on their wider ideas of adaptation and resilience in our communities and how the current Scottish Government policy fits into the picture.  The workshop was delivered by SCCAN in partnership with King’s College London, and funded by KCL’s Impact Accelerator. Credits:  Production, interviews, editing - Kaska Hempel Resources:  Community Adaptation Routemap - Adaptation Scotland: https://adaptation.scot/take-action/community-climate-adaptation-routemap/ Preparing for climate impacts resources on SCCAN website: https://sccan.scot/climate-adaptation/    Scottish National Adaptation Plan 3 (SNAP3) explainer https://adaptation.scot/about/about-the-scottish-governments-national-adaptation-plan-snap3/    Climate Change Adaptation: A primer with Emma Yule on the Local Zero podcast: https://www.localzeropod.com/episodes/c2z1qopayyftugl6stj9cocguu9vsp    Luke Fraser’s “hats”: https://www.aquatera.co.uk/  https://northronaldsaytrust.com/  https://www.scottish-islands-federation.co.uk/     Carbon Neutral Islands Project: https://cni.scot/  National Island Plan: https://www.gov.scot/publications/national-plan-scotlands-islands/   UK Met Office analysis of weather in Spring 2025 https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/news-and-media/media-centre/weather-and-climate-news/2025/double-record-breaker-spring-2025-is-warmest-and-sunniest-on-uk-record 

In this cross over we share a 2022 episode of The Highland Good Food Podcast, published by Highlands Good Food Network. Host, Laura Dorantt, speaks to Anna from Planet Sutherland, Mairi from the Fearn Free Food Garden and Emma from the Auchtertyre Community Garden. They discuss the importance of community food projects, which offer a space for learning, a place to gather and grow. Enjoying the podcast? Support us with a donation on ko-fi or simply share the story with others, review or rate our show. Resources: Donate to 1000 Better Stories podcast https://ko-fi.com/1000betterstoriespod Highland Good Food Podcast (you can also find it on Podbean, Spotify, Apple Podcasts and other major podcasting distribution apps) https://highlandgoodfood.scot/podcast/ Highland Good Food Partnership https://highlandgoodfood.scot/ Fear Free Food Garden https://easterrosspeninsula.com/listings/fearn-free-food-garden/ Planet Sutherland https://planetsutherland.com/ SCCAN membership map https://sccan.scot/about/members/ (Community members involved in growing: https://new.opengreenmap.org/browse/sites?icon=62e6a4a3b8121f0100b0e7fa&map=62e6a19ae0fc1e0100a2a115&search=growing)

In this cross over we share the first episode of the Paperboats podcast, associated with the Paperboats collective of Scotland-based writers focussed on nature and environment in a time of climate and ecological breakdown. Host, Ian Grosz, talks with Paperboats co-founders Sandy Winterbottom and Elaine Morrison about the ideas behind the movement and its work so far. Enjoying the podcast? Support us with a donation on ko-fi or simply share the story with others, review or rate our show. Resources: Donate to 1000 Better Stories podcast https://ko-fi.com/1000betterstoriespod Paperboats collective https://paperboats.org/ Paperboats podcast https://paperboats.org/podcasts/

2024 marked the five-year anniversary of Greener Kirckaldy's ownership of their community building and 100 years of the community land ownership movement in Scotland. This is a story of this community’s journey to community ownership and how that empowered them to do more on climate, build resilience and help people in need. SCCAN podcast has lost it's funding. While we look for other sources, you can support us by donating through ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/1000betterstoriespod You can also join our collective and share your audio stories through our channel - get in touch with Kaska on [email protected]. Credits Production and recording: Lewis Harrower Field recording: Kaska Hempel Resources Greener Kirkcaldy https://www.greenerkirkcaldy.org.uk/ Community Land Scotland and the Stove Network - urban journeys digital mural - a story of community ownership https://www.greenerkirkcaldy.org.uk/project/greener-kirkcaldy-mural-a-story-of-community-ownership/ 100 Years of Community Ownership story archive https://100years.scot/ DTAS community ownership support service https://dtascommunityownership.org.uk/  Scottish Land Fund https://www.tnlcommunityfund.org.uk/funding/programmes/scottish-land-fund  

Our Story Weaver, Kaska Hempel, talks to the creative duo behind Art Moves Fife, Gillian McFarland and Kate Downes, about slow movement through landscape as a means to mobilise creative response to climate crisis, creative patience in thinking about solutions and tails wagging dogs. You can find the audio tour illustrating the essence of the creative process during the first art move at Tayport Heath on izi.travel website or app here. Credits Production: Kaska Hempel Resources Art Moves Fife website https://www.artmovesfife.org/ Art Move at Tayport Heath - blog https://www.artmovesfife.org/blog/artmove-1b Art Move at Tayport Heath - audio tour https://izi.travel/en/browse/a20cf047-db75-4f72-93e4-9ab98171d1c0/en  

Our Story Weaver, Kaska Hempel, speaks with Marie-Anne Brown, a manager at Magpie in Banchory, about embracing a circular economy lifestyle, balancing social and climate responsibilities, and planning for extreme weather. This is a final episode in our mini-series on climate driven extreme weather and adaptation in Scotland, marking the first anniversary of the devastating October floods in North East Scotland. Credits Production, recording and editing: Kaska Hempel Resources Magpie Shops https://www.magpieshops.org.uk/  Circular Communities Scotland https://www.circularcommunities.scot/  Aberdeen Voluntary Action https://www.avashire.org.uk/  Aberdeenshire South Food Bank https://aberdeenshiresouth.foodbank.org.uk/  DeesideCAN https://www.deesidecan.org.uk/  Number One https://www.facebook.com/numberonebanchory  SSEN powering communities to net zero fund includes funding for community-led physical and environmental resilience for communities within their supply network areas https://www.ssen.co.uk/about-ssen/our-communities/powering-communities-to-net-zero-fund/  The Scottish Government’s New Build Heat Standard will now allow wood burning stoves from 1 January 2025, based on rural and island community feedback (amendment on 8 November 2024)  https://www.gov.scot/news/wood-burning-stoves-to-be-permitted-in-new-homes/  SCCAN Adaptation resources https://sccan.scot/climate-adaptation/ 

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/ 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/