The Power of Scotland

By Stan Blackley (@stanblackley ) is Deputy Director of Communities at Yes Scotland (www.yesscotland.net). Earlier this week I took part Continue reading →

WMD Found

“With devolution you get to ban air-rifles, with independence you can cancel Trident” …

Failures from Sellafailed to EDF

Is nuclear power about to become a constitutional issue? By Mike Small Last November, the lone journalist who cares about Continue reading →

Altogether Better (without oil)

There is little argument against a Yes vote, except fear mongering and fear itself. But it is independence from oil that is needed. Independence from the miracle fuel.

From the Province of the Cat: Dounreay is a war crime

by George Gunn Because Dounreay was built to produce plutonium for military use during the Cold War Dounreay is a Continue reading →

Arc of Innovation?

Here’s an unashamed plug for Lesley Riddoch’s Nordic Horizons series with two events coming up ‘The Great Green Danes’ in Continue reading →

Energy Futures

Shaun Burnie on why Big Energy can’t deliver Green Energy, and why we need an energy descent plan for Scotland…

Patrick Harvie MSP responds to UK Chancellor’s Autumn Statement

by Patrick Harvie MSP “George Osborne continues to wage his war on reality, creating ever greater poverty and inequality in our Continue reading →

Indy Podcast 10

Did you know that home insurance premiums in Scotland are artificially high because Scotland is part of the union? I Continue reading →

The Dark Side of the Green Economy

By Jeff Conant Why some indigenous groups and environmentalists are saying no to the “green economy.” Everywhere you look these Continue reading →

Science And The Sixth Of August

By Michael Greenwell I got up early this morning to watch what, from every angle you look at it, was Continue reading →

Rio Grand Apathy

By Ross Croall Throw off the shackles of the so-called ‘debate’ on climate change – environmental problems are real, and Continue reading →

The Socialist Case for Yes

Gregor Gall outlines the socialist case for independence…

Who Owns Oil?

This article is relevant for anyone thinking about the longer-term issues about energy and Scotland. By Carmelos Ruiz-Marrero Repsol, a Continue reading →

FROM THE PROVINCE OF THE CAT 3: ‘Nothing Will Come From Nothing’ by George Gunn

by George Gunn Wednesday April 25th was a very windy day in Caithness. A fierce North Easterly gale blew down Continue reading →

A Deep Democracy for Scotland

By Justin Kenrick Between now and 2014 do we need a society-wide dialogue on how best to trail-blaze the rebuilding Continue reading →

A Total Disaster? Either way, the price of oil has just gone up.

140 miles from Aberdeen the North Sea sits on the verge of an environmental catastrophe.  A gas leak under the Continue reading →

Decommisioning Dounreay: Babcocks or Starbucks?

by George Gunn Recently I was stuck between a conference where mobiles were verboten and writing a screenplay where everything Continue reading →

Transition Branching Out? Land Reform: Losing and Recovering the Commons

Should Transition remain above and beneath and beyond politics, or is there a way of fusing the genius of Transition’s focus on the primary importance of place, and the genius of the Occupy movement’s focus on the crude fact that the very few are destroying the planet we all depend on?

Food, Fairness and the Fife Diet

By Douglas Strang In ‘The Great Tablecloth’, the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda conjures for us the sensual pleasures of the Continue reading →

Remodelling Scottish Citizenship

By Jamie Brown Scotland will soon have the chance to become an independent nation or possibly the option of having Continue reading →

Blasda – Scotland’s Local Food Feast

Launching this week is Blasda – Scotland’s local food feast, a massive celebration of the alternative to supermarket food culture  Continue reading →

Lost in Space

First Woolies, then News of the World, now Star Trek. What’s up next? Anyone for the Euro?

Eco Mindshift

This is Natalie Jeremijenko on the art of eco-mindshift, from Pat Kane’s new Radical Animal site. Natalie Jeremijenko is an Continue reading →

North and South, Ecology and Justice

With neoliberalism on a down slope and a new era of South-South cooperation dawning, this is the most favorable historical moment in decades to retake the endeavor of Third World militance and solidarity.

Black Forest to Green Wood?

The Green party’s election victory in the German state of Baden-Württemberg is expected to have a major impact on industry Continue reading →

Renewables – Not About the Environment

What do we mean by renewable energy? If you ask the average person on the street, many of them probably associate “renewable” with “green” (or “environmentally-friendly”, as we used to call it). The thing is, we should be associating it with “infinite” and “inexhaustible”.

The End of Nuclear Energy

This week, high profile environmentalists like George Monbiot (‘The Fukushima crisis should not spell the end of nuclear power‘) and Continue reading →

Susan George, Crisis & Solutions

For more than three decades ground-breaking scholar and activist Susan George has written expansively on the effects of neo-liberal economics Continue reading →

What Hopes for Scotland in 2011?

“Why have a Parliament if we don’t use it to make possible what would be impossible without it? “