Sanday Development Trust look forward to hosting their own Climate Festival within the wider Orkney Climate Festival.

Come along to this event to have a climate conversation with Jonny, a member of our team here at the North Highlands & Islands Climate Hub.

Sanday Development Trust are excited to host their own Climate Festival as part of the wider Orkney Climate Festival.

This event offers a fun learning opportunity for kids of all ages. Children under 9 to be accompanied by an adult. Kits for every child will be supplied.

Sanday Development Trust are excited to host their own Climate Festival as part of the wider Orkney Climate Festival.

The Zero waste Community Picnic will welcome attendees to enjoy food together as a community.

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.

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.