Aisling🌿

Working to support Sustainable, Just, Low Carbon Communities 🌍 Hoy, Orkney📍 she/her 🦋 all views my own 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

[mount bellyache @mountbellyache]

all the animals depicted in this AI slop are losing habitats and dying due to climate change that AI slop contributes to

[Joanne Coates. @JoanneCoates_]

In this weekends @FT @ftweekend ‘The middle of somewhere. Massive thank you to @joshklustig Really lovely to see the work / story of rural class out there. Currently on @balticgateshead until November 17th.

[Joanne Coates. @JoanneCoates_]

🧵The middle of somewhere. Rural places are often seen as ‘idyllic’ or ‘remote’. Places that are often seeing the effects of climate first hand. What does this mean for young people who live here? Who can afford to live there? A collaborative work using photography, sound…

[Scottish Rural & Islands Parliament @sriparliament]

As #SRIP2023_YOUTH draws to a close, we have a big surprise in store! We're thrilled to have Cabinet Secretary @MairiGougeon join us to discuss feedback and next steps. 🙌

[Emma Wotherspoon @EmmaEarth]

Today our Nat 5 Geography classroom looked like this 🌱 Learning about how rural businesses develop, farming can be a driver for carbon reduction & hungry families can be fed. A real reminder how many vital jobs in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 are underpinned by the principles they learn in 🌍 classes!

[Blue Planet Society @Seasaver]

Bluefin tuna have returned to UK waters so why is the Government so eager to kill them?

'Instead of being cherished and protected, bluefin tuna are being hunted to supply high-end restaurants with luxury meat.'

Read @sraytweets article below:

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https://t.co/LokDSdW8tr

[Scottish Islands Team @IslandsTeamSG]

Over the coming weeks we will be hosting a series of islands workshops to hear from island communities about the National Islands Plan. This will support our work on the current review of the Plan. Please keep your eyes peeled for further details on how to register for the events

[Emma Roddick SNP @EmmaRoddickSNP]

Climate change is an equalities issue and we can learn so much from our islands about embedding climate justice and community wealth-building while we explore routes to becoming a sustainable nation

[Emma Roddick SNP @EmmaRoddickSNP]

Great to catch up with Aisling at the Hoy Heritage Centre to chat about Hoy's journey to being one of our first Carbon Neutral Islands. I loved hearing her speak so passionately about the community and why community buy-in is vital as we tackle climate change.

[Nick Blyth @NBlythCEnvFIEMA]

Looking forward to talking low carbon with @ais_phillips_ and colleagues today..

[Pete Cooper @PeteMRCooper]

“When I take people round to see my animals, one of the first questions they ask is, "what use is it?" by which they mean, "what use is it to them?”… by asking "what use is it?" you are asking the animal to justify its existence without having justified your own”

Gerald Durrell

[Stephen Barlow @SteB777]

Can I just make a few points re: thinking about sustainability, the ecological and climate crisis etc. Having followed it, having read the literature, since I wss young, for over 50 years. I have a better overview than most.
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[Rhoda Meek @wodieskodie]

🚨 I'm going all in on Isle Develop CIC. Partly cos tech made me redundant last week, but mainly because I think a social enterprise island-based web agency is a great idea! Hit us up if you're needing a website! 😜
https://t.co/TPbMpfUU7j

[The Orcadian @The_Orcadian]

The move has prompted anger from islanders and a petition calling on the RSPB to reverse the decision has gathered over 200 signatures. https://t.co/UZgXona3Qu

[The Scotsman @TheScotsman]

The placid nature of life on the island of Hoy has been sorely ruffled by plans by RSPB Scotland to cut its warden job at the Hoy Nature Reserve, the largest in Orkney, from a full-time to part-time position. https://t.co/yadCTj8fUh

[Aisling🌿 @ais_phillips_]

@islainthewild I could put you in contact with our Community Development Officer for the Island of Hoy Development Trust, Orkney 📍I’m new to a CDO role too but also happy to chat! I’d also recommend @Joan_ThursoCDT :)

[🌱An Organic Irish Garden🌱 @irish_organic]

How I dealt with Climate Anxiety

1. Climate anxiety is a growing phenomenon across the planet. I suffered horrendously from it for a long time. I worked as an aquatic biologist at sea for a few years. What I saw out there and how we were treating the land made me very depressed.

[Neville Southall @NevilleSouthall]

The enemy of the working class travels by private jet, not in a dinghy.

[Jake @jakeperry97]

On our 3rd recession in under 20 years, got no chance of owning a home, sky high rents for mouldy flats, no one can afford to put the heating on, spend £100 on a train and it gets cancelled and both political parties are now pretty much the same. But yeah it’s those woke schools