New Connections

10 January 2016

News of one new and one older but still relevant source of ideas and information about things TBI is concerned with.

SCCAN newsletter

As a follow-up to the Paris Climate Conference, our page Home / Climate Change has an introduction to the December newsletter of SCCAN (Scottish Communities Climate Action Network), of which TBI is a member, with links to the full newsletter and an article on the concept of resilient communities.  We have also set up a regular link to the newsletter under the News tab.

The Dùthchas Project - Our Place in the Future

The Dùthchas Project was a demonstration project funded by the EU Life Environment Programme from 1998-2001. Focused on the Scottish Highlands and Islands, the Project worked with 3 communities and 22 public agencies to explore ways of sustaining fragile rural areas – the natural heritage, the people and the economy. North Sutherland, North Uist and Skye’s Trotternish peninsula were chosen as the 3 Pilot Areas.

Vanessa Halhead writes:

The Duthchas website  www.duthchas.org.uk  is packed with still really ground breaking and useful information for the kind of things that TBI are seeking to achieve.

I’d like to suggest that you dig into it and look at some of the many documents on the site, and in particular the following pages:

Other documents – contains the reports of the work done in the 3 pilot areas (N. Sutherland/ Trotternish/ N Uist): the initial surveys, the sustainability profiles and area strategies. These were very carefully done, as you will see, with huge community (and agency) engagement. The 3 areas went on to deliver on and add to their area strategies.
The Handbook – a step by step guide drawn from all the experience of the project
Project report

I also still have copies of the CD Rom, which has all of the reports also a very nice video, if anyone is interested.