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In Transition? (13/08/2010)
I went along to the Transition Town Forres Open Day in the Town Hall the other weekend; the event featured a range of stalls and stands with a topical message of cost (and co2st) cutting for food, energy, travel, skills etc. There’s a number of well-established community initiatives in and...
Read the rest of “In Transition?”A belated cheer (25/05/2010)
A belated cheer for the Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010, which became law a few weeks ago. Amongst its many provisions* it amends the Forestry Act of 1967 to permit the Forestry Commissioners to "delegate their functions…to such community bodies as they consider appropriate": in...
Read the rest of “A belated cheer”More commiserations… (07/05/2010)
As you might have heard, 2 more Community Woodland Groups have been turned down by the Big Lottery Fund’s Growing Community Assets - our commiserations go to both the Craignish and Nith Valley groups. Most if not all of the projects which do get funded by the Lottery are admirable examples of...
Read the rest of “More commiserations…”A vote for change? (15/04/2010)
A few years ago I showed some Finnish foresters round a community woodland: the trip went well and I was impressed at how quickly they grasped the transformation of objectives and purpose that had taken place alongside the tweaks in silviculture. However, they were keen to ask my opinion on the...
Read the rest of “A vote for change?”More colonial anthropology… (09/03/2010)
Another month, another rural land use report. This time it’s the turn of the sheep-counters at SAC to weigh in with the impressive-sounding “Rural Scotland in Focus”*, which “brings together analysis of rural Scotland that takes account of the strategies and policies already in operation and...
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