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/