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Highlands & Islands Greens @hi-greens.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 27/10/2026

Quite concerning goings-on at US polling stations.

Highlands & Islands Greens @hi-greens.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

🎉 Come to Inverness to gather and have fun with fellow Greens! Click to order your tickets here: members.greens.scot/civicrm/event/r… [£10 for concessions]

PARTY FOR THE PLANET
EDEN COURT, INVERNESS
7:30 £15
Ceilidh + Karawane
Raising funds for Highlands & Islands Greens
Wheelchair accessible, Queer-friendly

Earlier year's Green Ceilidh, people having fun.

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Highlands & Islands Greens @hi-greens.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

Not to be missed. Is there a screening near you? You can check on this website: www.nebriefing.org/screening-map

People’s Emergency Briefing

On the climate and nature crisis

‘The climate we live in today is the least extreme climate we will experience in our lifetimes!
What we need to know. What we need to do.

Film screening (50 mins) and discussion
Green Screen at Ullapool Ferry Terminal
Wednesday 26th August 2026
Doors open at 7, film at 7.30
FREE ENTRY | ALL WELCOME
www.nebriefing.org

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Highlands & Islands Greens @hi-greens.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 16/06/2026

🌿 Caithness Pride 2nd Year! If you can make it to Thurso on Saturday, show your support and join in the fun!

Caithness Pride
Parade and Celebration
20th June 2026
10am Start
Parade at 12 noon
Thurso High street,
Tennis Courts and Green

Caithness Pride
UK Mainland's most Northerly Pride
Parade and Celebration
20th June 2026
Parade starts at 12 noon at Thurso Harbour

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Highlands & Islands Greens @hi-greens.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 05/05/2026

Our list candidate Anne Thomas has been busy putting up lamp post signs in the "Royal Borough" of Wick! (This is spooky Argyle Square)

Lamp post election posters for the SNP and the Greens, in a park in Wick. The trees are still barren but the grass is green.

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Highlands & Islands Greens @hi-greens.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 04/05/2026

"Getting tired of you humans messing things up" face.

Disgruntled dog in the bottom of a boat, after being rescued from a flooded area. Yes, he is judging us.

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Highlands & Islands Greens @hi-greens.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 27/04/2026

Ten more days until the election! We're excited - are you excited?

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Highlands & Islands Greens @hi-greens.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 15/04/2026

There’s just two days left to submit nominations for the Women in Green Business Awards. event.businessgreen.com/womeningree… Whether you know an inspiring trailblazer or you’re one yourself, nominating takes just one minute - and […] [Original post on mastodon.scot]

BusinessGreen
Women in Green Business Awards

7 October 2026 | Marriott London Grosvenor Square
Nomination Deadline: By midnight, Friday 17 April 2026

CELEBRATING WOMEN IN SUSTAINABILITY

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Highlands & Islands Greens @hi-greens.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 14/04/2026

One of our candidates for the Holyrood election on the 7th May - Ariane Burgess

This week I :
- Visited Lochaber to meet local groups working on
community transport and childcare.
- Listened carefully to debates and constituents’
views before voting on the Assisted Dying Bill
- Asked questions in Parliament about our biodiversity loss
- Voted in support of a ban on greyhound racing

Ariane Burgess
HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS
For People. For Planet.

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Highlands & Islands Greens @hi-greens.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 12/04/2026

Thinking this might be a rather good book... 😊

book cover "Green Thinking" by Natalie Bennett. Peach coloured gradient in the background, and the head of a Grecian statue which has split open, emitting yellow/green bubbles.

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Highlands & Islands Greens @hi-greens.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 03/04/2026

Today we launched our campaign for the Scottish Parliament election! On May 7th let's demand free bus travel for everyone, the biggest expansion of funded childcare for a generation, investment in climate and nature, and that the rich pay their fair share. On May 7th let's demand better.

The two co-leaders surrounded by about 20 candidates.

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Highlands & Islands Greens @hi-greens.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 03/03/2026

This is how it works: 1. England wants to build nuclear plants in Scotland 2. State propaganda machine BBC "commissions a poll" claiming that Scots want that (we don't) 3. LibDem (English party) puppet MP Jaimie Stone gets exposure in Local rag run by unionist […] [Original post on mastodon.scot]

Photo of outgoing LibDem MP the slippery Jaimie Stone

‘Far north would warmly welcome a small modular reactor in Caithness’ says far north MP

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Highlands & Islands Greens @hi-greens.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 22/02/2026

Dræyk van der Hørn, #4 on the Green regional list. Councillor in Moray.

He is holding open a door to a property under renovation. He is smiling and wearing a burnt orange jacket. He has a beard.

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Highlands & Islands Greens @hi-greens.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 22/02/2026

Here's Kate Willis, she's #3 on the regional list. You can vote for her in May's election

Lochaber Greens councillor monthly update: Jan 2026
In January Cllr Kate Willis...
- Asked Council to continue funding the Highland Repair and Reuse Fund.
- Supported Highland Youth Parliament reps with their Climate Change priorities
and asks for Council action
- Supported 8 local projects with £270K Community Regeneration Funding
- Supported the Councils comprehensive response to Scot Govt Climate Change Plan
- Welcomed the £2 bus fare cap in Highlands, secured by Greens in Holyrood

Photo of Kate Willis with a loch in the background. She is wearing winter clothing, a beanie and scarf. She has shoulder length brown hair.

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Highlands & Islands Greens @hi-greens.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 22/02/2026

Ariane Burgess, Green MSP, working hard to achieve land reform in Scotland Vote for her, #1 on the regional list in May

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Highlands & Islands Greens @hi-greens.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 22/02/2026

Here's our Ariane Burgess MSP, nr 1 on the Highlands and Islands list

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Highlands & Islands Greens @hi-greens.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 21/02/2026

🚨 NEW POLL! A new poll out today has the Scottish Greens doubling our MSPs and overtaking both Labour and the Tories in the Scottish Parliament. This May we can bring about the Green change that Scotland badly needs.

New Poll:
Scottish Greens forecast to overtake Labour and Tories in Scotland
Bar chart showing Greens at 14 MSPs, Labour at 13 MSPs, Tories at 10 MSPs.
We can make these figures even better!
Vote Scottish Greens on 7 May

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Highlands & Islands Greens @hi-greens.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 14/02/2026

No point in having Independence without Digital Sovereignty.

In 2023, the Scottish Government rejected pressure from the Secretary of State for Scotland to follow NHS England’s lead and rejected Palantir, adopting instead as partners, AstraZeneca UK and Lenus Health.

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Highlands & Islands Greens @hi-greens.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 12/02/2026

It's going to be a very 🥶 cold night tonight, and minus degrees for the next couple of days. Please put out extra snacks for your local birds, including the gulls and crows. Add a handful of currants, crumble up a couple of digestive biscuits, anything with fat […] [Original post on mastodon.scot]

Photo of a herring gull down in Wick harbour, Caithness.

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Highlands & Islands Greens @hi-greens.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 11/02/2026

You ask: Why should I go through all that bother to switch from Facebook to Friendica, to buy books at bookstores instead of via Amazon, to start using Open Source software on my laptop?

screenshot from BlueSky:
Nick Wray @nicktweet.bsky.social

It amazes me that we're allowing the digital barons to enclose our
datalands. It's OUR data - OUR land. This time round, we're be lucky if
they allow us to come back and till the soil, as they don't need us to
extract wealth from what we've created. Just sell that to the tiny super-
rich.

14:20 - 10 Feb 2026

(The post is illustrated with a photo of the US techno-rich at a Trump event, juxtaposed with a medieval painting of serfs toiling in the fields)

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Highlands & Islands Greens @hi-greens.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 08/02/2026

There are some marvellous Green candidates popping up down in England! Meet Hannah Spencer, running in Manchester, as she presents her ideas and why she is running:

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Highlands & Islands Greens @hi-greens.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 08/02/2026

A whole Green gang out on the streets of Crown in Inverness today!

Nine Green activists out on the doors in Inverness. They are holding up signs and they look very happy! "Campaign and Cake Day"

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Highlands & Islands Greens @hi-greens.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 04/02/2026

One of us did a study visit to Sweden's second-largest city - Gothenburg - about 10 years ago and they were already doing this there. But still - a great idea, and also a way to make use of a shopping centre/mall that is closing down.

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Highlands & Islands Greens @hi-greens.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 31/01/2026

New progressive US politician, who knows how to do comms - amusing and worth a watch:

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Highlands & Islands Greens @hi-greens.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 22/01/2026

Thought provoking new campaign ad from the Green Party of England and Wales. Strong and thoughtful message - it makes the other English parties look like dishwater.

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Highlands & Islands Greens @hi-greens.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 19/01/2026

Anyone in Highland seeing the aurora borealis this evening? Apparently there's a huge spike in solar activity. Go outside and have a look!

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Highlands & Islands Greens @hi-greens.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 08/01/2026

A lot of this applies to us in the UK as well, so it's worth having a look at which communication platforms you and your friends use, and seeking replacements that are not US-owned, that are open source and distributed.

screenshot:
Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie

Trump’s billionaire allies now control X, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp,
TikTok, Truth and Twitch.
They own Fox News, CBS, WaPo, WSJ and NY Post — plus 185+ local tv
stations and news in 100 markets.
They control the Al you're asking for answers, the algorithms feeding you
content, your personal data you've given up for access, and the devices
you rely on.
The news and your privacy are now what Trump and his billionaire pals say
it is.
This is all by design.

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Highlands & Islands Greens @hi-greens.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 04/01/2026

Perhaps we are a violent species initially, but we can learn new ways:

An unpainted suburban wooden fence, person-high, with a quality graffiti combining the words Teach and Peace in an eye-pleasing way, indicating their relationship. There is also a large red heart.

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Highlands & Islands Greens @hi-greens.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 29/12/2025

It's just a poll, but good news anyway. But, still far too many people voting for Reform - don't want to see them in the Scottish parliament at all!

Tomorrow's front page of The National. "INDY PARTIES SET FOR A BIG WIN IN HOLYROOD VOTE. (large photo of John Swinney (SNP) and the two Green co-leaders.

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Highlands & Islands Greens @hi-greens.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 29/12/2025

Things are going well for our Green friends down in England and Wales!

screenshot:
T Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social

so it happened - greens just met labour in the polling average
United Kingdom — Parliament voting intention
[graph follows]

29 Dec 2025

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