The Scottish Beacon
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| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 79 | Founded | 3 years ago | Last Issue | 3 months ago |
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Power Shift Live
We are excited to announce a gathering in Glasgow focused on how Scotland’s energy transition is reshaping communities – and how those changes are understood and reported.
Friday 10 April 10am - 3:30pm
Byres Road Hub, Glasgow,...
This is Community Wealth Building
This is Community Wealth Building is a project we’ve been working on in partnership with Scottish Community Alliance – a coalition of national networks and intermediaries, each one representing a different aspect of Scotland’s diverse commu...
The Power Shift: Investigating Scotland’s Green Energy Boom
We’re wrapping up our work for the year and wanted to update you on the latest batch of our series, published in partnership with The Herald. If you want to keep up with the project, sign up to the Scottish Beacon newsletter for all the lat...
The Power Shift: Renewables, Communities and the Question of Who Really Benefits from Scotland’s Green Energy Revolution
We’ve been off Substack for a while, but will be back with more regular newsletters in the coming months. We’ve just finished a collaboration with the Herald newspaper, publishing stories from our Power Shift partners across the land. We’ll...
'This machine kills tryants' – reflecting on the need for community journalism
Last week I had the pleasure of visiting Dumfries to give a talk about community media as an act of creative placemaking. It’s really exciting to hear from The Stove Network about their plan to launch a project that’s part news desk, part i...
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