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
Conversations With Nature by Johnny Dale I feel nature and being outside watching the wildlife out in the garden or on my walks has helped me a lot during these unprecedented times. I have to admit I loved last year’s lockdown. Not from the point of many people losing their lives, but Clydesider Editor • Environment
Canal Clean-Up Words & Photos by Stephen Barbour During normal times myself and the Cubs from 6th Clydebank Scout group would end our term walking from our HQ in Dalmuir along the canal path picking up litter. At the end we’d get a chippy as a reward. During the first lockdown Clydesider Editor • Community
Frilled With Love By Amanda Eleftheriades Photos by Caroline Finn An Aladdin’s cave of frills, fabrics and wicker lies hidden in Faifley’s Skypoint Community Centre. It is here that local creative genius Alison Bell conjures up stunning wedding backdrops and light installations, the front-facing element of her social enterprise, Frill Factory. Clydesider Editor • Community
