We know that the last few weeks have been very challenging for our cultural sector. In this continually changing situation, we want to reassure you that we are still here to support you in your green work in any way we can.

At Creative Carbon Scotland, we remain focused on supporting the sector in their environmental ambitions. Climate change will continue to impact cultural organisations, artists, audiences and our wider world in the months and years to come. During this difficult time, we want to make the most of the Scottish Green Arts community by developing help, support and connections for all those finding new ways of working for a different future.

How we can support the sector

There are numerous continuing and new ways in which we can support you:

• Connecting you with other Green Champions in cultural organisations across Scotland
• Sharing case studies of successful green initiatives to inspire and inform your own efforts
• Opening up our archive of free tools and resources to help you address climate change in your work
• Helping you to understand your carbon footprint, and providing 1:1 advice on how to manage your emissions, preparing you for any reporting requirements
• Advising on how you can adapt to the impacts of climate change – including changing temperatures, rainfall, sea level rise and extreme weather.

Upcoming digital events and opportunities 

We have a range of ways to get involved in the coming months:

• If you are a member of the Green Arts Initiative, join our new Green Arts Facebook Group, where you can connect with other Green Champions and share questions, experiences and source ideas.
• Members can also join our new Green Arts monthly meetups, which will explore key green topics for the sector. Our first one will take place on 22 April 2-3pm and will focus on how to communicate about climate change. Check our events calendar to find out what else is coming up.
• If you are a Regularly Funded Organisation, review our guidance on how to report your emissions (we’ll be updating this soon for 2019/20 reporting) and get in touch with Caro to discuss how your carbon management plans are changing.

Like many, the Creative Carbon Scotland team are working from home, but we can all be contacted through email:

• For general enquiries about connecting with the Green Arts community and upcoming events: lewis.conen-rowe@creativecarbonscotland.com
• For questions about our resources and to discuss project ideas: catriona.patterson@creativecarbonscotland.com
• For questions related to emissions reporting and carbon management: caro.overy@creativecarbonscotland.com or fiona.maclennan@creativecarbonscotland.com

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Creative Carbon Scotland is a partnership of arts organisations working to put culture at the heart of a sustainable Scotland. We believe cultural and creative organisations have a significant influencing power to help shape a sustainable Scotland for the 21st century.

In 2011 we worked with partners Festivals Edinburgh, the Federation of Scottish Threatre and Scottish Contemporary Art Network to support over thirty arts organisations to operate more sustainably.

We are now building on these achievements and working with over 70 cultural organisations across Scotland in various key areas including carbon management, behavioural change and advocacy for sustainable practice in the arts.

Our work with cultural organisations is the first step towards a wider change. Cultural organisations can influence public behaviour and attitudes about climate change through:

Changing their own behaviour;
Communicating with their audiences;
Engaging the public’s emotions, values and ideas.

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Sustainability First has launched two new competitions – an art prize and an essay prize in response to the question ‘How do we build from the current corona crisis towards a more sustainable future?’

Sustainability First, a think tank and charity seeking to promote practical ways to deliver environmental, social and economic wellbeing, is inviting us to think about building from the corona crisis towards a sustainable future.

The organisation has launched two creative competitions – Art Prize and Essay Prize â€“ and is asking for original, radical ideas and visions in response to the challenge of ensuring a sustainable recovery that balances economic, social and environmental wellbeing.

Sustainability First Art Prize

Open to all living British and international artists based in the UK, established and emerging, over the age of 18. Images of up to three works per person in any media can be submitted online.

• First prize: £1000
• Second prize: £300
• Third prize: £200

Deadline: 1 June 2020 at 5pm

Sustainability First Essay Prize

The essay prize is open to people over the age of 18 years.

• First prize: £1000
• Second prize: £300
• Third prize: £200

Deadline: 1 June 2020 at 5pm

For more information, to review the rules for entry and to complete the online application form, please visit the Sustainability First competition page.

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Creative Carbon Scotland is a partnership of arts organisations working to put culture at the heart of a sustainable Scotland. We believe cultural and creative organisations have a significant influencing power to help shape a sustainable Scotland for the 21st century.

In 2011 we worked with partners Festivals Edinburgh, the Federation of Scottish Threatre and Scottish Contemporary Art Network to support over thirty arts organisations to operate more sustainably.

We are now building on these achievements and working with over 70 cultural organisations across Scotland in various key areas including carbon management, behavioural change and advocacy for sustainable practice in the arts.

Our work with cultural organisations is the first step towards a wider change. Cultural organisations can influence public behaviour and attitudes about climate change through:

Changing their own behaviour;
Communicating with their audiences;
Engaging the public’s emotions, values and ideas.

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We launched our latest Green Arts Initiative Annual Report during #GreenArts Day 2020 (18th March 2020).

Read all about how the creative community responded to Scotland’s climate emergency in 2019, and about our plans for 2020.

Download the Green Arts Initiative Annual Report 2019

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Creative Carbon Scotland is a partnership of arts organisations working to put culture at the heart of a sustainable Scotland. We believe cultural and creative organisations have a significant influencing power to help shape a sustainable Scotland for the 21st century.

In 2011 we worked with partners Festivals Edinburgh, the Federation of Scottish Threatre and Scottish Contemporary Art Network to support over thirty arts organisations to operate more sustainably.

We are now building on these achievements and working with over 70 cultural organisations across Scotland in various key areas including carbon management, behavioural change and advocacy for sustainable practice in the arts.

Our work with cultural organisations is the first step towards a wider change. Cultural organisations can influence public behaviour and attitudes about climate change through:

Changing their own behaviour;
Communicating with their audiences;
Engaging the public’s emotions, values and ideas.

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In collaboration with Creative Carbon Scotland and supported by EIT Climate-KIC, Sniffer/Climate Ready Clyde wishes to appoint an experienced project manager. 

The project manager will support us in the development of Clyde Re:built, a transformative adaptation strategy and plan for the Glasgow City Region, home to one third of the Scottish population. 

This is a high-profile, collaborative project with a focus on climate resilience requiring an appropriately qualified and experienced project manager to deftly support an on-time, on-budget and impactful delivery. The postholder will be based from home initially (until COVID-19 restrictions are lifted) and then co-located in Glasgow and Edinburgh with frequent travel between the two.

This project is funded by EIT Climate-KIC, a European Knowledge and Innovation Community (KIC), supported by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology, working to accelerate the transition to a zero-carbon economy.

Deadline for applications: midnight, Friday 24th April

Online interviews for shortlisted aplicants will be held on Thursday 30th April.

For more information and details of how to apply, please visit the vacancy page on Sniffer.

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Creative Carbon Scotland is a partnership of arts organisations working to put culture at the heart of a sustainable Scotland. We believe cultural and creative organisations have a significant influencing power to help shape a sustainable Scotland for the 21st century.

In 2011 we worked with partners Festivals Edinburgh, the Federation of Scottish Threatre and Scottish Contemporary Art Network to support over thirty arts organisations to operate more sustainably.

We are now building on these achievements and working with over 70 cultural organisations across Scotland in various key areas including carbon management, behavioural change and advocacy for sustainable practice in the arts.

Our work with cultural organisations is the first step towards a wider change. Cultural organisations can influence public behaviour and attitudes about climate change through:

Changing their own behaviour;
Communicating with their audiences;
Engaging the public’s emotions, values and ideas.

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The John Byrne Award is open to anyone who is 16 or over living or studying in Scotland. Submit creative works in any medium to enter the competition for a £7500 top prize, and £500 quarterly prizes.

The John Byrne Award is Scotland’s most inclusive competition for emerging artists. Our aim is to encourage a discussion about societal values by promoting the creative work of our entrants.

We are looking for work that is thought-provoking and displays a sophisticated consideration of values.

Visit www.johnbyrneaward.org.uk to see all entries.

Any creative medium is accepted.

Examples include:

• Visual – Paintings, drawings, sketches, illustrations, sculpture, digital art, screen prints, mixed media, photography.
• Design – Product/industrial design, fashion design, textile design, game design, UI/UX design, interior and spatial design, architectural design.
• Audio – Compositions, songs, original pieces of music, audio recordings.
• Video – Documentaries, interviews, animation, music videos, art films, short films, fashion films.
• Writing – poetry, journalism, blog posts, essays, creative writing.

Entry criteria:

• 16 and over
• Currently living or studying in Scotland
• We accept one entry per person or team per quarter

Prizes:

• Annual award – £7500
• Quarterly award – £500

Deadlines:

• £500 award: 23:59 on the last day of April, July, and October.
• £7500 award: 23:59 on 31st January 2021

How to enter:

Submit your entry here.

For further information, please contact jade@johnbyrneaward.org.uk or visit the website.

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Creative Carbon Scotland is a partnership of arts organisations working to put culture at the heart of a sustainable Scotland. We believe cultural and creative organisations have a significant influencing power to help shape a sustainable Scotland for the 21st century.

In 2011 we worked with partners Festivals Edinburgh, the Federation of Scottish Threatre and Scottish Contemporary Art Network to support over thirty arts organisations to operate more sustainably.

We are now building on these achievements and working with over 70 cultural organisations across Scotland in various key areas including carbon management, behavioural change and advocacy for sustainable practice in the arts.

Our work with cultural organisations is the first step towards a wider change. Cultural organisations can influence public behaviour and attitudes about climate change through:

Changing their own behaviour;
Communicating with their audiences;
Engaging the public’s emotions, values and ideas.

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4th March 2020: This Green Tease brought together representatives from Renfrewshire’s arts organisations and local government alongside visitors from further afield to discuss the ways that arts and culture in the area could respond to the climate emergency as declared by the council. 

Introductions

• Leonie Bell, Paisley Partnership Strategic Lead, gave us a quick update on Future Paisley, a programme of events, activity and investment that aims to harness the power of culture to radically change the area’s reputation and help lift its communities out of poverty. As part of this, a major exhibition and events programme will launch in Paisley’s Piazza Centre, which will involve opportunities for communities across Renfrewshire to feed into discussion about the area’s future.
• Colin Grainger, Renfrewshire Council, discussed the council’s declaration of climate emergency and its target for net zero emissions by 2030, emphasising the role that arts and culture in the area could play in this and the importance of the response to the climate emergency recognising the specific economic and social issues that Renfrewshire faces.
• Lewis Coenen-Rowe, Creative Carbon Scotland, laid out the argument for why urgent action on climate change in the arts and culture sector is necessary. He pointed to the recent storms and how climate change is making Scotland’s winters wetter as well as making extreme weather events more likely. He also showed a map showing how predicted sea level rises would significantly affect Renfrewshire. He discussed how responding to climate change is a matter of culture as much as science and requires fundamental changes in the ways we think and operate. Arts and culture are well positioned to do this, reaching most of Scotland’s inhabitants and having the resources and mindsets for tackling our ways of thinking, but they must also ‘walk the walk’ by reducing their own environmental impact. He recommended joining the Green Arts Initiative as a good starting point.

Presentation from Heather Claridge, Architecture and Design Scotland

Heather set the scene for us by laying out some of the ways that arts and culture can be mobilised towards sustainability goals. Her presentation discussed three projects that involved creative means of tackling sustainability issues in the west of Scotland.

1. Living, working, playing with water was a project involving artist Minty Donald using creative methods to engage members of the public on our relationship with water and how it could become more positive in light of increased rainfall and flooding following climate change
2. Land Art Generator Initiative had artists, architects and engineers collaborate on designing innovative renewable energy generation facilities that integrated social, cultural, and aesthetic concerns into their designs, trying to simultaneously work on technical and social solutions
3. Stalled Spaces was a project that encouraged and supported community groups to make creative use of unused land within cities, with an emphasis on environmentally inflected projects

Her main lessons from this work were:

1. Create a flexibility-defined brief: artistic and creative work is most effective when open-ended, allowing development during the project rather than working towards pre-defined outcomes
2. Nurture a sense of partnership: take the time to allow people coming from different fields to properly understand each other’s perspectives in order to collaborate effectively
3. Connect dots to strategic outcomes: think about how artistic and creative work can collaborate with work in other areas and support wider strategy

Group Activity: Walking the walk and talking the talk in sustainability

We then moved on to trying to think about how we might apply some of the things that Heather had discussed. In groups we designed and planned cultural activities of a wide variety of kinds, depending on the experience and backgrounds around the table. The aim was for these events to engage with specific issues pertinent to the climate emergency that would make a contribution to our wider culture shift, but would also avoid negative impacts by being designed in a sustainable way. Responses included:

• A bike-powered film screening
• An event promoting sustainable and active travel taking place alongside a congested road
• An event taking place at a stalled space starting as a performance and creating something permanent to remain on the site
• An event getting people to weave or knit together a poem that could then be displayed in public
• A green celebration of Ferguslie Park, working with artists and members of the community to change perceptions of the area
• A litter-pick where the rubbish is then used to make art or for other creative purposes

Speaker Panel

We finished with quick-fire presentations from arts organisations who are already carrying out environmental work.

• Becca Lewis, Glasgow Women’s Library, discussed her involvement in their ‘Green Cluster’. She emphasised that worldwide gender inequality means that climate change impacts fall more heavily on women than men, making it a feminist issue. She led us through practical actions they had taken, including joining the Green Arts Initiative, developing and publishing an environmental policy, carrying out an energy audit, using vegetarian catering, installing a more efficient boiler, and encouraging staff to travel using low emission forms of transport. Their current plans include a strong ecofeminist angle to their Open The Door festival in May 2020 and running a consultation with their local community using Climate Challenge funding.
• Gillian Steel, ReMode, introduced us to some of the environmental issues in the fashion industry, with less than 1% of discarded clothing being recycled and clothes now being worn fewer times before being thrown away. She pointed out that clothes require a huge amount of water to be produced and many cannot be recycled. Renfrewshire-based ReMode sells re-used and upcycled clothing through their shop, offers creative workshops and training in clothing repair, and puts on talks, events, and fashion shows. They aim to help shift the fashion industry towards more sustainable ways of running.
• Scott Morris, Scottish Ensemble, led us through their sustainability ‘journey’, from beginning to record their emissions, to writing an environmental policy, to advocating within the cultural sector, to premiering Elemental, their first creative response to the climate crisis. He emphasised the importance of getting buy-in from management staff and board members in order to make progress and pointed out that, like many arts organisations, travel was by far their largest source of emissions and the issue that most urgently needs to be tackled across the sector. He finally led us through potential future steps for Scottish Ensemble, suggesting potential methods of reducing travel emissions from touring.

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Creative Carbon Scotland is a partnership of arts organisations working to put culture at the heart of a sustainable Scotland. We believe cultural and creative organisations have a significant influencing power to help shape a sustainable Scotland for the 21st century.

In 2011 we worked with partners Festivals Edinburgh, the Federation of Scottish Threatre and Scottish Contemporary Art Network to support over thirty arts organisations to operate more sustainably.

We are now building on these achievements and working with over 70 cultural organisations across Scotland in various key areas including carbon management, behavioural change and advocacy for sustainable practice in the arts.

Our work with cultural organisations is the first step towards a wider change. Cultural organisations can influence public behaviour and attitudes about climate change through:

Changing their own behaviour;
Communicating with their audiences;
Engaging the public’s emotions, values and ideas.

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25th February 2020: For this ‘micro-Green Tease’ we gathered together representatives from Scottish arts organisations to get their thoughts on Climate Justice: what it is, why it matters, what the cultural sector can do to embody and promote it. The discussion is summarised below but work on this is still ongoing so do please get in touch if you have thoughts of your own.

Introduction

Lewis kicked off the discussion by throwing out some examples of campaigns that appear to engage with issues of climate justice:

• Save Our Straws: a disability rights campaign aimed at getting Starbucks to reverse their ban on plastic straws. The ban was instituted on the grounds that it would reduce disposable plastic waste but campaigners argued that people with certain disabilities need those straws and that an outright ban on them would be discriminatory.
• Black Lives Matter protested against the expansion of London City Airport on the grounds that it would lead to more climate change causing emissions and that people of colour are on average more adversely affected by climate change impacts. They also drew connections to increased local air pollution in the area, which has a high proportion of people of colour, well above the UK average. Their slogan was, ‘Climate Crisis is a Racist Crisis’
• The Pacific Climate Warriors: a grass roots anti-climate change campaign based across multiple Pacific island nations, drawing attention to their situation as among the first to suffer the effects of rising sea levels, while seeking to brand themselves as being at the forefront of climate action rather than as passive victims.
• Protests at the British Museum drew connections between its sponsorship by fossil fuel company BP and the museum collections containing objects taken from cultures around the world, many during Britain’s colonial past. The campaigners argued that by helping ‘artwash’ BP’s image they were promoting a form of climate colonialism by legitimising its activities that would lead to climate change, the effects of which are most strongly felt in Britain’s ex-colonies.

He also drew attention to the long history of climate justice and how long it has taken for us to engage with it. He showed images of the 2002 Bali Principles of Climate Justice adopted at the Earth Summit in Bali, which were in turn based on the 1991 Principles of Environmental Justice, drafted at the First National People of Culture Environmental Summit, Washington DC.

Defining Climate Justice

In pairs we then attempted to define the term climate justice and consider where we are most likely to encounter issues of climate justice living in Scotland and working in arts organisations.

Our definitions of Climate Justice shared an emphasis on disproportionate impacts of climate change falling on already disadvantaged people, exacerbating existing inequalities. We also raised the importance of taking responsibility for the large contributions the UK has made to global emissions and sharing the burdens (and potential opportunities) of climate change. It was widely agreed important to put the emphasis on the collective rather than the individual and to develop a reasonably objective framework.

Some other useful definitions and examples are also available on the GCU Centre for Climate Justice website.

Discussions of particularly Scottish climate justice issues repeatedly raised:

• Migration and climate refugees
• Urban-rural divides and remote communities
• A ‘just transition‘ away from the oil industry
• Understanding the global impact of local work. Seeing everything through ‘globe tinted spectacles’, as one participant put it.

Discussions of relevance to arts and culture organisations raised:

• What we produce: can we provide a ‘voice for the voiceless’, build awareness, challenge ideas, offer a space for discourse, contribute to a paradigm shift?
• How we run ourselves: can we practise what we preach in the way we run our organisations, collaborate with social justice organisations? How can we deal with the connection between arts and culture and privilege?

Equalities, Diversity and Inclusion

Following this, Helen Trew of Creative Scotland contributed by drawing some useful connections between climate justice and existing Equalities, Diversity and Inclusion policy. She pointed out that, like climate justice, EDI is not just relevant to arts organisations and thus forces us to consider our position as part of a wider purpose. She discussed how, like climate change, the protected characteristics involved in EDI apply to all of us, but not to the same extent: ‘Treating everyone the same does not result in equality’. Similarly, although climate change will affect all of us, it will affect everyone in different ways and to different extents, which climate justice recognises. She also suggested that climate justice and EDI share the issue that, while it’s easy to see the value from a broad perspective, it can be more difficult to see what you can or should do within your own immediate context, which takes detailed examination and thought.

What can we do?

In the final discussion section, we started trying to think about how we as arts organisations can:

• Embody climate justice by running ourselves in a climate just manner
• Promote climate justice through our programming and how we engage with audiences

Suggestions from the discussion included:

• Both programming and staffing should be diverse and representative.
• Fully engaging with climate justice requires getting buy in from directors, managers, and board members.
• Climate justice provides opportunities for positive framing, showing how responding to climate change is also an opportunity to make our society more just.
• Climate action should be promoted as something that everyone can get involved in.
• Embedding artists and arts organisations more deeply in local communities would reduce travel emissions and enable more active engagement with local social justice issues.
• Advocating for changes in how the cultural sector works should form part of work in climate justice.

The next steps will involve refining this broad discussion into more specific advice on how climate justice can form a part of how arts organisations run. If you have any thoughts that you would like to contribute, please get in touch with lewis.coenen-rowe@creativecarbonscotland.com.

Representatives were present at this event from:

• Beyond Borders Festival
• Birds of Paradise
• Creative Carbon Scotland
• Creative Scotland
• Film Access Scotland
• Glasgow Women’s Library
• Just Festival
• Lung Ha Theatre Company
• Nevis Ensemble
• North Edinburgh Arts
• Starcatchers Theatre

Image: Canva

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Creative Carbon Scotland is a partnership of arts organisations working to put culture at the heart of a sustainable Scotland. We believe cultural and creative organisations have a significant influencing power to help shape a sustainable Scotland for the 21st century.

In 2011 we worked with partners Festivals Edinburgh, the Federation of Scottish Threatre and Scottish Contemporary Art Network to support over thirty arts organisations to operate more sustainably.

We are now building on these achievements and working with over 70 cultural organisations across Scotland in various key areas including carbon management, behavioural change and advocacy for sustainable practice in the arts.

Our work with cultural organisations is the first step towards a wider change. Cultural organisations can influence public behaviour and attitudes about climate change through:

Changing their own behaviour;
Communicating with their audiences;
Engaging the public’s emotions, values and ideas.

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#GreenArts day is the annual online celebration of green arts and culture across Scotland. Each year we spend the day promoting the achievements of Green Arts Initiative members, release the annual report and make available new case studies on work being done by members of the initiative. 

Green arts day is now over for this year, but scroll down to get some highlights of what happened during the day.

#GreenArts Day

Head to our Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram to see what’s going on and join the discussion by posting with the hashtag #GreenArts and tagging us. Have you done anything in the past year that you’re particularly proud of? What is the role of arts and culture in creating a more sustainable Scotland?

Stay tuned for live updates on the day here.

Act 1: The Green Arts Initiative

We released our annual report and celebrated the fantastic work being done by the over 200 members of the Green Arts Initiative. Find out more.

Act 2: Scotland’s Environmental Organisations

We celebrated connections with green, sustainability, and environmental organisations across Scotland and beyond. Read about our partnership with Good Energy or visit the Library of Creative Sustainability.

Act 3: Climate Justice

We believe that tackling the climate emergency is a matter of justice, with the responsibility for and repercussions of climate change being extremely unequally distributed . We believe that arts and culture can play an important tole in embodying and promoting climate justice. Read about a recent Climate Justice Discussion we hosted, or read more about climate justice.

Intermission

Have a read of our six new case studies on work being done by Green Arts Initiative members, released today.

Act 4: Adaptation Hour

It’s not just about taking action to limit climate change. We know that things are already changing and not everything can be stopped, so we also need to start adapting. Visit the Cultural Adaptations Website for loads more advice on this.

Act 5: Looking Ahead

Green Arts Initiative members are full of plans for the future, most importantly thinking about how we can take advantage of the COP26 climate talks coming to Glasgow in November 2020. Read a summary of a discussion event we hosted about this.

Green Arts Initiative Annual Report 2019

Have a read of the newly released annual report.

It gives information about Green Arts Initiative members as well as a thorough survey of what work has taken place over the last year and what members of the initiative are planning for the coming year. Learn what members think are the biggest issues to tackle and how to overcome these challenges. Get information about the make up of the initiative and where members are based. Get inspiration from specific examples and get a sense of overall trends.

Thanks to Boon Studio for this beautiful design work.

Case Studies

Read case studies from members of the Green Arts Initiative giving detailed information on work they have undertaken in the last year.

Highland One World offer insights from their work with local youth groups on creative ways of building understanding of climate refugees.

Fife Contemporary report on their Climate Emergency Day for artists to discuss how to green their work and offer feedback to the Scottish Government.

NEAT Shows discuss their paternship in a plastic-themed community film screening and raffle.

Olive Pearson relates how she embedded zero waste principles into her craft.

Ecologisers lead us through their creative ‘Eco-Santa’ anti-littering campaign for children.

Nevis Ensemble detail their approach to green touring and how they get the whole team engaged in sustainable practice.

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Creative Carbon Scotland is a partnership of arts organisations working to put culture at the heart of a sustainable Scotland. We believe cultural and creative organisations have a significant influencing power to help shape a sustainable Scotland for the 21st century.

In 2011 we worked with partners Festivals Edinburgh, the Federation of Scottish Threatre and Scottish Contemporary Art Network to support over thirty arts organisations to operate more sustainably.

We are now building on these achievements and working with over 70 cultural organisations across Scotland in various key areas including carbon management, behavioural change and advocacy for sustainable practice in the arts.

Our work with cultural organisations is the first step towards a wider change. Cultural organisations can influence public behaviour and attitudes about climate change through:

Changing their own behaviour;
Communicating with their audiences;
Engaging the public’s emotions, values and ideas.

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Glasgow has set the ambitious target to become the UK’s first Net Zero city, but how it gets there will be significantly different from other big cities across the country.

One way ScottishPower is helping local residents play their part in the fight against climate change is through a new partnership with nextbike to sponsor Glasgow’s first fleet of e-bikes, which will allow Glasgow residents to travel in a quicker and greener way. ScottishPower has sponsored a fleet of 63 e-bikes and 21 charging points across the city.

An increase in the use of electric vehicles will significantly help Glasgow reach its Net Zero goal by 2030. As one of the few cities in the UK with a large proportion of their residents living in flats without access to off-street parking, the challenge of transitioning to electric transport and electric heating creates its own unique requirements.

ScottishPower’s recent Zero Carbon Communities report forecast that the city will need to install more than 175,000 charging points between now and 2030 to reach their target – nearly 17,000 in non-resident areas.

These new e-bikes are a great example of how you can reduce your carbon footprint.

Find out more about Glasgow’s e-bikes.

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Creative Carbon Scotland is a partnership of arts organisations working to put culture at the heart of a sustainable Scotland. We believe cultural and creative organisations have a significant influencing power to help shape a sustainable Scotland for the 21st century.

In 2011 we worked with partners Festivals Edinburgh, the Federation of Scottish Threatre and Scottish Contemporary Art Network to support over thirty arts organisations to operate more sustainably.

We are now building on these achievements and working with over 70 cultural organisations across Scotland in various key areas including carbon management, behavioural change and advocacy for sustainable practice in the arts.

Our work with cultural organisations is the first step towards a wider change. Cultural organisations can influence public behaviour and attitudes about climate change through:

Changing their own behaviour;
Communicating with their audiences;
Engaging the public’s emotions, values and ideas.

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Climate Emergency Scotland is planning an exhibition on the theme : Climate Action…

Climate Emergency Scotland is a newly formed group of volunteers with the goal of spreading awareness and encouraging action regarding the Climate Crisis. We are an offshoot of ELREC (Edinburgh and Lothians Regional Equalities Council) and we are based in Edinburgh.

We want to create an event in May this year where climate change and climate action is at the forefront, and we are looking for local artists to get involved with the project and display their art. If you sell any of your work during the exhibition we welcome a small donation to our cause, but this is not mandatory.

We cannot accept work that requires a screen/projector.

Upcycling and environmentally friendly materials are preferred and encouraged.

How much you want to get involved is up to you! We are a volunteer-run organisation so we are always happy to get more volunteers involved with planning, setup, etc, but we are happy to just get the chance to display your art if that’s all the involvement you are interested in.

If you are interested, please email us at CEMscot@gmail.com

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Creative Carbon Scotland is a partnership of arts organisations working to put culture at the heart of a sustainable Scotland. We believe cultural and creative organisations have a significant influencing power to help shape a sustainable Scotland for the 21st century.

In 2011 we worked with partners Festivals Edinburgh, the Federation of Scottish Threatre and Scottish Contemporary Art Network to support over thirty arts organisations to operate more sustainably.

We are now building on these achievements and working with over 70 cultural organisations across Scotland in various key areas including carbon management, behavioural change and advocacy for sustainable practice in the arts.

Our work with cultural organisations is the first step towards a wider change. Cultural organisations can influence public behaviour and attitudes about climate change through:

Changing their own behaviour;
Communicating with their audiences;
Engaging the public’s emotions, values and ideas.

Go to Creative Carbon Scotland

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