Join us to learn how to create a climate action plan for your community space.

As the next step on your journey to becoming a Sustainable Space, this workshop will guide you through the (sometimes winding!) path of creating a climate action plan and sustainability policy. It will be informal and practical, giving your community groups the skills to take the next steps on your environmental journey.

The Zero Waste Scotland Love Food Hate Waste campaign aims to raise awareness of the need to reduce food waste and help us take action. Join this interactive Love Food Hate Waste workshop to learn about the scale and impact of food waste in Scotland as well as the practical skills we can all do to stop wasting food and save money in the process. We’ll also provide you with digital tools and assets to take away and spread the food waste reduction message with your colleagues, community, friends and family.

The workshop will be fun and interactive and covers the key messages of the national Love Food Hate Waste campaign, including:

- Planning

- Storage

- Better use of the freezer

- Portion sizes

- How to use up leftovers

No prior knowledge or experience is required to attend this workshop, just an interest in reducing food waste.

Book to attend using this link

How the salt fish trade connected Shetland with the rest of Europe for more than two hundred years. John Goodlad, who has worked in the seafood industry all his life, describes how salt fish from Shetland became one of the staple foods of Europe and powered the economy of the islands.

The story ranges from the wild waters of the North Atlantic, the ice-filled fjords of Greenland and the remote islands of Faroe – to the dining tables of London’s middle classes, the bacalao restaurants of Spain and the Jewish shtetls of Eastern Europe.

Tickets £5/£3.

Book to attend this event using this link.

Screening of the film 'Scotland: Our Climate Journey'

About the film:

Over a decade ago, one of the largest coalitions Scotland has ever seen formed to demand tougher targets on climate from their leaders. This powerful movement spurred Scotland into action, and a ripple of positive change echoed out across the country, touching everything from the biggest companies to the smallest communities. This documentary, presented by The Royal Scottish Geographical Society, charts that journey to date.

An insightful and fascinating journey across a nation pulling together to tackle climate change, this film will leave viewers with a sense of hope, inspiration, and renewed strength for the fight ahead. This is Scotland's climate journey - our climate journey.

Watch the trailer here:

To attend this online event, book here for free.

The Grimond Lecture

We’ve emerged from two years of lockdowns into a world of massively rising energy prices and warnings of food shortages, exacerbated by climate change and war. The real limits to business as usual are becoming harder to ignore. Is there any way to shift from our current self-destructive path to instead a stable environment and a balanced economy, and even a vision of a world with work and housing for everyone?

Yes there is, say the pioneers in the new field of transition engineering, developed to tackle big complex global problems in a systematic way – to try to think our way out of each crisis. To find out more about it, we are joined by the co-founders of the Global Association for Transition Engineering – Daniel Kenning of the company Splendid Engineering and Dr Susan Krumdieck, Professor of Energy Transition at Heriot-Watt University.

Tickets £5/£3.

Book now using this link.

This event will also be livestreamed.

In addition to this event taking place in Kirkwall, the Sanday Development Trust are showing the livestream as part of the Sanday Climate Festival.

This online event is hosted by the Highland Adapts team and will feature the launch of their short film and a follow up Q&A session about the Highland Adapts Partnership.

To register please click the button below to be taken to Eventbrite.

Food Lochaber will be spending the week of the Highland Climate Festival promoting the abundance and quality of local from Lochaber via their social media channels. Food will be available for purchase online and for collection on Thursday 30th June.

For more details please visit their Facebook site here: https://www.facebook.com/foodlochaber

You can purchase food and arrange collection through the website link below, click on the button for more information.

A NW2045 hosted conversation considering what the land does for us, and what we can do for the land on our journey to Net Zero.....Meet researchers currently working with the NW2045 community led project, who will share insights into their work so far into the natural capital of the NW Sutherland & Ross-shire area.

(The session will include a short presentation with time for Q&A’s, chat, info and idea sharing).

To learn more about the North West 2045 Regional Land Use Partnership please visit their website: https://www.northwest2045.scot

The Net Zero Strategy workshop has been developed to enable groups to think about their current practices and reflect upon their environment

The workshop talks about the process of being more mindful of current practices, thinking about more environmentally conscious activities and committing these to the operation of the group by implementing an Environmental Policy. Each community group has different priorities, is run differently and has differing means for change, this workshop aims to provide encouragement for groups to do what they can to reduce their environmental impact.

Book here

Join Visit Inverness Loch Ness for an announcement on how businesses throughout their region can be supported in their net zero journey by Visit Inverness Loch Ness. The event will be held online to register please click on the link below to be taken to a Microsoft Teams registration.

Online event to showcase the feasibility study for Hydrogen for Heat by The Highland Council through the HUGE (Hydrogen Utilisation & Green Energy) project.

Good for your pocket, Good for the planet. It's a win-win. Practical ways you can save money whilst also reducing your impact on the planet.

Join Zero Waste Scotland for this online interactive talk as part of the Highland Climate Festival.

To book, please follow the link below to be taken to our Eventbrite listing, event to be held on Zoom.

Join Zero Waste Scotland for this online event to learn more about the concept of a circular economy. We will talk through what the circular economy means for businesses, communities and the Highlands and Islands region.

This event is open to anyone, from individuals to large companies.

The event will be held on Zoom, to book, please follow the link below to be taken to our Eventbrite page.

As part of the Highland Climate Festival we will be offering a FREE one hour online guided nature connection session. You can take part from anywhere with a WiFi or Mobile Internet connection, preferably somewhere outside in nature (but you can sit by an open window if you want).
We will be engaging with what is around us through all our senses, whilst I offer a sequence of Nature Connection 'Invitations' to create an experience that enhances connection with nature and boosts the therapeutic and restorative effects of nature for health and well-being.
However, these are only ever recommended activities to try and there will never be any pressure to engage in activity that you do not wish to.

To attend please follow the link below to take part via Facebook Live.