A Home From Home by Zoe Weir PHOTO CREDITS: STOP POLLUTION IN GABES When international COP26 delegates were left without accommodation due to high demand and rocketing prices, folk across West Dunbartonshire opened their homes to welcome them via the COP26 Homestay network. Zoe Weir, a 49-year old ecologist and anti-plastics campaigner from Dumbarton, Clydesider • Environment
Knowetop_Pics_Kids_Running Community Growing Words by Angela Clark A community farm in Dumbarton is being brought back to life and is helping people improve their mental and physical well-being. The 15.5 acre site at Dumbarton’s Castlehill Road will provide a place where people can take time out of their daily stresses of Clydesider • Environment
https://clydesider.org/2021/11/30/taking-climate-action/ Taking Climate Action By Emily FraserLooking around me in the lead up to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow (COP26), watching and listening to everything, was making my head spin. I wanted to write about the more subtle forms of climate activism happening locally - in contrast with direct action - Clydesider • Environment
https://clydesider.org/2021/11/30/family-of-trees/ Family of Trees Words and photos by Johnny Dale Trees are more like us than we think. As the Silver Birch says, “you call me the mother tree, tree of endurance and survival, tree of air and water, Betula Pendula, the lady of the woods - you call me many names.” As Birch Clydesider • Environment
https://clydesider.org/2021/11/24/funding-available-to-heat-homes/ Funding Available to Heat Homes Sponsored Editorial Home Energy Scotland With energy bills on the rise, visiting Home Energy Scotland online could really pay off. Check homeenergyscotland.org/warmer-winter to see if you could be eligible for Scottish Government-funded heating and insulation improvements to help make your home cosy in time for winter. Over 23, Clydesider • Issue 18
https://clydesider.org/2021/11/24/crafting-together/ Crafting Together Words & Photos by Caroline Finn A creative calm welcomes visitors to Crafting Together CIC’s new studio in Clydebank’s Titan Centre. Young makers’ eyes smile a greeting from behind their masks as they look up from their intricate work building sparkly angel bracelets. The studio walls are covered Clydesider • Creative
