Sanitary Sustainability by Jacqueline Bruce The last week of November 2020 will forever be a monumental week in human rights history. It was the week Scotland became the first country in the world to end period poverty. When free sanitary products first started being distributed through schools, colleges and universities in August Clydesider Editor • Environment
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
https://clydesider.org/2021/06/01/carers-week-2021/ Carers of West Dunbartonshire Sponsored Editorial Welcome back, Carers! The Carers Centre is open. To keep visitors and staff safe, the following safety measures are in place: * We are operating on an appointment only basis. If you wish to visit us, please call 0141 941 1550 or email [email protected] to arrange an Clydesider Editor • Issue 18
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
Digital Stepping Stones - Sponsored Editorial Since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, the people who have borne the brunt of the isolation we have experienced generally came from the most vulnerable in society. Vulnerable because of their financial, health or any other social circumstance you can think of. The stay-at-home message was required because we Clydesider Editor • Mental Health
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
