Aberdeen Country Fair can be found in the heart of Aberdeen on the last Saturday of every month. Located on Belmont Street, between Union Street and Schoolhill, Aberdeen Country Fair is one of the largest markets in Scotland, attracting up to 30,000 people per event. The market provides local farmers and crafters the opportunity to [...]

For those of you who like to get out and about the the Aberdeenshire Council Ranger Service organise a number of events throughout the year which are designed for you to learn more about your environment, the unique countryside and to have fun at the same time. Some also give you the chance to put [...]

The Creative Waste Exchange will be open next Saturday (3rd March) from 10am – 2pm. A 4 hour back to basics sewing class, from 10am – 2pm, where you can learn how to thread a sewing machine and then progress to hemming and inserting zips. The class is £30 for community members (£40 for members) [...]

In a follow up to my recent entry – Scotland’s Global Footprint, some of the results of the pilot project have been released. The North-east Scotland Global Footprint Reduction Report will be unveiled at a special event in Ellon on 2nd February, which is being held to mark the completion of detailed research into the [...]

The Scottish Executive has, for a number of years, run the Do a Little Change a Lot campaign. Offering advice on energy efficiency in your home, work place, school, neighbourhood,  garden and transport. Helping Scotland’s environment could be easier than you think. If you liked that post, then try these…Green Jobs Need People by Arcadia [...]

Scotland’s Global Footprint is a partnership between WWF Scotland, Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire and North Lanarkshire Councils for a three year project which is due to end in trunning to June 2007 will: Measure the footprint of each local authority area Develop a software tool for policy-making Develop a strategy and projects to reduce the footprint Produce [...]

 Every secondary school in the country will receive two copies of the DVD ‘ An Inconvenient Truth’ The Scottish Executive announced this week that Al Gore’s would be shown to teenagers, in a bid to highlight growing concern of climate change to the younger generation. Ross Finnie, the environment minister, dismissed any suggestion that the [...]

Based in Findhorn in the North East of Scotland Trees for Life is aiming to “restore a wild forest, which is there for its own sake, as a home for wildlife and to fulfil the ecological functions necessary for the wellbeing of the land itself. “ Today just 1% of the original Caledonian Forest of [...]

Tesco secured planning permission to erect a mini-wind farm at its St Rollox superstore in the north of Glasgow. It believes three turbines, 60ft high, will create enough energy to power the store. St Rollox will become the second store in Scotland powered entirely by renewable energy. They have also unvailed plans to open its [...]

I am a self confessed bookworm buying books at any opportunity, but I have recently become aware of the colossal impact the book industry can have on the environment. Take the first print run of JK Rowling’s latest Harry Potter espisode, this stretched to over two billion pages – or 2.5 million copies – in the [...]