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Scottish Ecological Design Association @scotecodesign.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
TODAY! – the third and final event in our ‘Championing the Local’ series. We’ll explore why some decisions about land use are best made at landscape scale, and how bioregions and RLUPs can enable this. ⏰ 4-6pm 📆 Mon 21 Sept 📌 online 🔗 seda.scot/championing-...
SEDA Land event - today at 4 p.m.

Landscape-scale governance
Mon 21st September 4-6pm
Online – free admission

Landscape-Scale Governance is the third in the CHAMPIONING THE LOCAL series of SEDA Land Conversations.

This conversation will explore when it may be appropriate to scale up the model to regional or national level. Regional Land Use Partnerships (RLUPs) and bioregions are models bordered by natural geographic and landscape boundaries such as mountain ridges and watersheds. Both adopt a natural capital approach to understanding their regional landscapes. This addresses issues in a cross-sectoral way, using a systems approach, rather than simplifying the issues into sectoral silos. This is a challenging ambition, since it means grappling with the complexity, uncertainty and trade-offs inherent in large scale, closely coupled, socio-ecological systems, but policy and land use decisions (such as natural flood protection measures) are often best made at such a scale.

This Conversation will include inspirational models, using these as a springboard for a broader discussion of the subject, addressing obstacles along the way and how to overcome them.

 CHAIR: 

Lucy Filby, Head of Land & Forestry Transition, South of Scotland Enterprise

SPEAKERS:  

Andrew Williams, Local Programme Manager,  Verture

Clare Cooper, Co-Founder & Co-Director, Bioregioning Tayside

Lizzie Williams, Regional Land Use Partnership (RLUP) manager, NW2045 

McNabb Laurie, Manager, D&G Woodlands

Henry Leveson-Gower, Founder and CEO, Promoting Economic Pluralism

Anne Thomas, Trustee, Highland People’s Power
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Scottish Ecological Design Association @scotecodesign.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Just one week to go until the third of our ‘Championing the Local’ series. We’ll explore why some decisions about land use are best made at landscape-scale, and how RLUPs and bioregions with natural, not political, boundaries enable this. ⏰ 4-6pm 📆 Mon 21 Sept 📌 online 🔗 seda.scot/championing-...
SEDA LAND EVENT

Landscape-scale governance
Mon 21st September 4-6pm
Online – free admission

Landscape-Scale Governance is the third in the CHAMPIONING THE LOCAL series of SEDA Land Conversations.

This conversation will explore when it may be appropriate to scale up the model to regional or national level. Regional Land Use Partnerships (RLUPs) and bioregions are models bordered by natural geographic and landscape boundaries such as mountain ridges and watersheds. Both adopt a natural capital approach to understanding their regional landscapes. This addresses issues in a cross-sectoral way, using a systems approach, rather than simplifying the issues into sectoral silos. This is a challenging ambition, since it means grappling with the complexity, uncertainty and trade-offs inherent in large scale, closely coupled, socio-ecological systems, but policy and land use decisions (such as natural flood protection measures) are often best made at such a scale.

This Conversation will include inspirational models, using these as a springboard for a broader discussion of the subject, addressing obstacles along the way and how to overcome them.

CHAIR: 

Lucy Filby, Head of Land & Forestry Transition, South of Scotland Enterprise

SPEAKERS: 

Andrew Williams, Local Programme Manager,  Verture

Clare Cooper, Co-Founder & Co-Director, Bioregioning Tayside

Lizzie Williams, Regional Land Use Partnership (RLUP) manager, NW2045 

McNabb Laurie, Manager, D&G Woodlands

Henry Leveson-Gower, Founder and CEO, Promoting Economic Pluralism

Anne Thomas, Trustee, Highland People’s Power
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Scottish Ecological Design Association @scotecodesign.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
SEDA is seeking a volunteer gamer to play and help promote Stone & Veil, an exciting new interactive game addressing soil health, land use and Highland mythology. The game has been co-developed by Abertay University, Fish Tin Games, James Hutton Institute and SEDA Land. seda.scot/seda-land-ga...
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Scottish Ecological Design Association @scotecodesign.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Next Wednesday, 16 September, is SCOTTISH HOUSING DAY, which includes a host of community events around Scotland. www.scottishhousingday.co.uk Held in partnership with orgs including @sfha.bsky.social @stir.ac.uk @edinburghtenants.bsky.social @cohousingscotland.bsky.social @cihscotland.bsky.social
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Gail Halvorsen @gailhalvorsen.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This finally gives SMEs the chance to compete with larger organisations in the onerous local authority procurement system.
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Gail Halvorsen @gailhalvorsen.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The joy of these examples of collaboration between a community and local authority is that they are equal partnerships. Both, in their different ways, are benefiting from collaboration with their council through sustainable means.
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Green groups call for Andy Burnham to break his silence on climate change: www.theguardian.com/environment/... Pleased to be a signatory to this joint letter organised by @gndrising.bsky.social: www.gndrising.org/updates/gree...
theguardian.com
Green groups urge Andy Burnham to break silence on climate crisis
More than 50 organisations say PM urgently needs to show leadership and prepare British people for scale of change needed as UK struggles through another heatwave
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Scottish Ecological Design Association @scotecodesign.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
What new prime minister Andy Burnham can learn from Scotland. @rossaitchison.bsky.social says: “The solution lies in following an ambitious, place-based methodology, while making sure we provide the local powers with the right resources and investment to deliver it.” @news.architectsjournal.co.uk
architectsjournal.co.uk
Rural housing requires not only devolution, but a place-based approach
Andy Burnham’s new UK government could learn from Scotland’s national commitment to a place-based approach, writes Ross Aitchison
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Scottish Ecological Design Association @scotecodesign.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
More than 50 environmental charities are urging the Scottish Government to commit to doubling the area of organic farmland by 2031. @scotlink.bsky.social said increasing organic farming could help farm businesses, cut emissions, and reduce fertiliser and pesticide use. @soilassocscot.bsky.social
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Double Scotland's organic farmland by 2031, charities urge government
Scottish Environment LINK said increasing organic farming could help farms, reduce climate emissions and boost nature by cutting pesticide use.
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Scottish Ecological Design Association @scotecodesign.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
“Scotland made climate change — can it now solve it? How the story of one country is the story of the world,” with @dominicmhinde.bsky.social, author of Drifting North: Finding a Sustainable Future in Scotland’s Past. Sunday, 23 August, at Shilling Brewing Co, 92 West George St, Glasgow G2 1PJ
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Buy tickets – "Scotland Made Climate Change - Can it Now Solve it? How the Story of One Country is the Story of the World." – Shilling Brewing Company
"Scotland Made Climate Change - Can it Now Solve it? How the Story of One Country is the Story of the World." – Shilling Brewing Company, Sun 23 Aug 2026 - "Scotland Made Climate Change - Can it Now S...
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WWF Scotland @wwfscotland.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Arthur’s Seat has been hit by another wildfire. 💔 The smoke hanging over Edinburgh is a stark reminder that climate change is already being felt here in Scotland, increasing the risk of more frequent and intense wildfires. It's time to turn the temperature down. 🔥
bbc.co.uk
Fire crews battle blaze on Arthur’s Seat in Edinburgh
A huge plume of smoke could be seen from as far away as Fife on Sunday evening.
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Scottish Ecological Design Association @scotecodesign.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
The third in our ‘Championing The Local’ series is on 21 Sept. We’ll explore why some decisions about land use are best made at landscape-scale and how Regional Land Use Partnerships and bioregions with natural not political boundaries enable this. 🔗 calum-ross-7y5m.squarespace.com/championing-...
Landscape-scale governance
Mon 21st September 4-6pm
Online – free admission

Landscape-Scale Governance is the third in the CHAMPIONING THE LOCAL series of SEDA Land Conversations.

This conversation will explore when it may be appropriate to scale up the model to regional or national level. Regional Land Use Partnerships (RLUPs) and bioregions are models bordered by natural geographic and landscape boundaries such as mountain ridges and watersheds. Both adopt a natural capital approach to understanding their regional landscapes. This addresses issues in a cross-sectoral way, using a systems approach, rather than simplifying the issues into sectoral silos. This is a challenging ambition, since it means grappling with the complexity, uncertainty and trade-offs inherent in large scale, closely coupled, socio-ecological systems, but policy and land use decisions (such as natural flood protection measures) are often best made at such a scale.

This Conversation will include inspirational models, using these as a springboard for a broader discussion of the subject, addressing obstacles along the way and how to overcome them.

CHAIR: 

Lucy Filby, Head of Land & Forestry Transition, South of Scotland Enterprise

SPEAKERS: 

Andrew Williams, Local Programme Manager,  Verture

Clare Cooper, Co-Founder & Co-Director, Bioregioning Tayside

Lizzie Williams, Regional Land Use Partnership (RLUP) manager, NW2045 

McNabb Laurie, Manager, D&G Woodlands

Henry Leveson-Gower, Founder and CEO, Promoting Economic Pluralism

Anne Thomas, Trustee, Highland People’s Power
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Scottish Ecological Design Association @scotecodesign.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The second in our ‘Championing The Local’ free events takes place on 14 Sept ‘Councils Need To Buy Better’ will highlight the role local authorities can play in enhancing local economies, by giving communities the confidence to invest in and develop local enterprises. 🔗 seda.scot/championing-...
Championing the Local, part 2     

SPEAKERS:  

TBC, North Ayrshire Council

Sarah Gowanlock, Partnerships Manager, Soil Association Scotland

Sue Guy, Director, People, Place & Resilience Scotland CIC

Iain MacPherson, director, Reorient Places

Mike Staples,CEO, South of Scotland Community Housing (SOSCH)

Emma Fletcher, founder & chair,  Heating Swaffham Prior     

Chris Martin, CEO, Social Enterprise Scotland 

Councils need to buy better
Monday, 14th September, 4-6pm
Online – free admission       

Councils Need to Buy Better is the second in the CHAMPIONING THE LOCAL series of SEDA Land Conversations.

This conversation will highlight the critical role that local authorities play in enhancing local economies.

The Scottish Government is committed to integrating social value and wellbeing into public procurement through not only the Procurement Reform (Scotland) legislation, but also the Scottish National Performance Framework strategy.

In April 2023 the Scottish Government published the first Public Procurement Strategy for Scotland. Local authority procurement – on the long-term contractual basis – can give communities the much needed confidence to invest and kickstart new enterprises.

This could be particularly transformative for Scotland's rural and remote communities which often face unique challenges, including economic fragility, limited employment opportunities, and infrastructural deficits. Local procurement fosters local employment, enhancing skills, and improving local infrastructure. This event aims to ensure that councils, health boards and other public bodies are given the means to enact the bill.

This Conversation will include inspirational models, using these as a springboard for a broader discussion of the subject, addressing obstacles along the way and how to overcome them.
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Scottish Ecological Design Association @scotecodesign.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
The first of our ‘Championing The Local’ free events takes place on 7 Sept. Building Vibrant Local Economies will help community groups realise their ambitions by explaining the range of business models available, showcasing IDBMs in food, renewable energy and retrofit. 🔗 seda.scot/championing-...
Championing the Local, part 1   

Building vibrant local economies
Monday, 7th September, 4-6pm
Online – free admission     

Building vibrant local economies is the first in the CHAMPIONING THE LOCAL series of SEDA Land Conversations.

This Conversation is aimed at helping community groups realise their ambitions 

We will explore alternative business models, including co-operatives, social enterprises and employee-owned businesses, and how they can make LVC’s possible, as well as the best scale at which such issues can be addressed – local, regional or national. 

At present, Scotland has plenty of micro examples of Inclusive and Democratic Business Models (IDBMs). We will look at ways of scaling these up, and rolling them out across the country, in areas such as food, renewable energy and retrofit.

One aim is to highlight the interconnectedness of all these issues, and how thinking about them together brings wider benefits, with different sectors learning from each other. 

This Conversation will include inspirational models, using these as a springboard for a broader discussion of the subject, addressing obstacles along the way and how to overcome them.
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Scottish Ecological Design Association @scotecodesign.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Is Scotland sufficiently ambitious when it comes to housing? This was Herald editor @salmondsalmond.bsky.social's question to Scottish National Investment Bank investment director Nicola Douglas. “We should be [more] open to looking at other models across the UK and Europe,” was Douglas’s answer.
heraldscotland.com
Sustainable communities created through housing-led regeneration in Scotland
Investors, developers and public sector leaders said trust, patience and partnership are essential to unlock Scotland’s housing-led regeneration…
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Scottish Ecological Design Association @scotecodesign.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
We are holding a series of three conversations on Community Wealth Building, with the focus on local value chains, on 7, 14, and 21 Sept 2026. The series is intended to help communities realise their ambitions and persuade local authorities of the part they can play in enhancing local economies.
Poster for 'Championing the Local,' a series of three SEDA Land events in September 2026, promoting local value chains. This will include exploring local value chains in the food, housing and energy sectors.
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Scottish Ecological Design Association @scotecodesign.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
RIAS urges ScotGov to rethink its infrastructure strategy. CEO Tamsie Thomson said: “Grenfell made clear that weak oversight, fragmented responsibility and cost-driven decision-making create systemic danger. It’s gravely worrying when building safety isn’t given strategic weight in public policy.“
scottishhousingnews.com
Architects call for infrastructure strategy changes over safety and procurement risks
The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS) has written to the Scottish Government to call for a fundamental rethink of Scotland’s Draft Infrastructure Strategy, warning it does not...
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Scottish Ecological Design Association @scotecodesign.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
“Like a woodwind solo drifting through a mountain valley these houses play a continuous melody marked by theme and variation in cedar, stone and timber beam,” says Trevor Roddy of homes by Blue Sky Architecture, the Vancouver-based practice led by Bo Helliwell and Kim Smith. LAST CHANCE TO BOOK!
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Blue Sky Architecture - our approach to an Ecological Architecture
Bo Helliwell’s eco-architectural practice with Kim Smith dates back to the 1970s.The talk describes their ecological architectural approach.
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Scottish Ecological Design Association @scotecodesign.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Former WD & HO Wills cigarette factory to be “sensitively repurposed” as 129 homes under proposals from Turnberry Property Devts and EMA Architects. At its height, the Art Deco landmark, built 1946-53, employed 3500 and produced 260m cigarettes a week. www.scottishhousingnews.com/articles/pla...
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Scottish Ecological Design Association @scotecodesign.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
At last night’s Better Outdoors SEDA Land event, held in Augustine United Church, Edinburgh, one audience member said outdoor learning is a “a no-brainer”. She’s right. At the event, practitioners, academics and policymakers explored how to ensure it is rolled out more widely across Scotland.
Davina Bowers, head of The Forest Nursery and The Forest Junior School, Merchiston Castle School, EdinburghRob Heasman, teacher at Beeslack Annex, Beeslack High School, Midlothian
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Scottish Ecological Design Association @scotecodesign.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
In a UK first, Stirling is pioneering a combined heat and power (CHP) system that utilizes cleaned wastewater to deliver heat to public buildings and businesses. A partnership between Scottish Water Horizons, Stirling Council, and Trane, the project is expected to save 380 tonnes of carbon a year.
tranetechnologies.com
Scottish City Takes Bold Action to Meet Net-Zero Emissions Target
To achieve a bold goal of net-zero carbon emissions by 2045, one Scottish city is using inventive wastewater cleaning solutions to heat public buildings.
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Scottish Ecological Design Association @scotecodesign.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Join us for a celebration of the life and legacy of SEDA co-founder, architect, activist and educator Jim Johnson on Saturday, 16 May from 1pm. The event is being held in Briggait, an a-listed complex of studios in the Merchant City which owes its survival and flowering to Jim and his colleagues.
Flier for SEDA event at Briggait, Glasgow to celebrate the life and legacy of SEDA co-founder, architect, activist and educator Jim Johnson who died on January 19 aged 91. He was one of the first architects to realise and act upon the climate crisis. He helped instigate the community-based housing movement, co-founding ASSIST Architects; was involved in conservation and urban regeneration of Edinburgh Old Town and co-founded the Scottish Ecological Design Association.
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Scottish Ecological Design Association @scotecodesign.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Why the Isle of Eigg hatched a plan to grow its own trees. The island’s nursery — currently running a “putting down roots” crowdfunder — is growing tens of thousands of native trees to create a sustainable supply of wood for fuel and to support natural habitats www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/eiggtreenu...
bbc.co.uk
Why the Isle of Eigg hatched a plan to grow its own trees
Islanders have planted thousands of the trees on Hebridean isle - and sent thousands more to other places.
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Scottish Ecological Design Association @scotecodesign.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
The primary energy fallacy is the false assumption that energy sources must be compared on the strength of their raw, primary energy input rather than their energy output. @janrosenow.bsky.social
medium.com
Have we been duped by the primary energy fallacy?
Whenever I post something on renewable energy on social media it never takes long for negative comments to arrive in my feed. One type of…
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Scottish Ecological Design Association @scotecodesign.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
“The Glenbranter extension highlights how Scotland’s timber industry — from growing forests, to milling, to designing building materials — can safeguard rural jobs for local people and enhance sustainability,” says Forestry and Land Scotland's operations manager Mark Ormsby.
projectscot.com
Cowal grown timber used for Forestry and Land Scotland extension | Project Scotland
SITKA spruce grown for commercial timber production on the Cowal peninsula has come full circle, returning as the material for Forestry and Land Scotland’s ...
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Scottish Ecological Design Association @scotecodesign.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
“We can walk on the land, but we cannot shape what happens to it.” @landworkersuk.bsky.social’s campaigns coordinator Tara Wright on the inadequacies of Scottish land reform.
thegreatoutdoorsmag.com
Grassroots hope in face of watered-down Scottish Land Reform Act
Tara Wight, Scotland Policy and Campaigns Coordinator for the Land Worker’s Alliance, shares her perspective on the Scottish Land Reform Act.
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Scottish Ecological Design Association @scotecodesign.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
On International Women’s Day, SEDA Land thanks all the inspirational women who have helped us in the past year. Here are a few of them. Clockwise from top left: Bea Nichol, Megan MacInnes, Flora Fraser, Magdalena Blazusiak, Lucy Filby, Savannah Fishel, Sophie Cooke, Lorna Dawson, and Gloria Lo
Women of SEDA Land, clockwise from top left - Bea Nichol, Megan MacInnes, Flora Fraser, Magdalena Blazusiak, Lucy Filby, Savannah Fishel, Sophie Cooke, Professor Dame Lorna Dawson, and Gloria Lo.
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Scottish Ecological Design Association @scotecodesign.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
North Queensferry Community Trust wins appeal against the Scottish Government over the latter’s claim that plans for a community-buyout of historic coaching inn the Albert Hotel are unworkable and unaffordable. Dunfermline Sheriff Court ruled that ScotGov’s stance was “not based on reason or logic”.
dunfermlinepress.com
Villagers win legal battle in bid to buy the Albert
“We are delighted with this decision which so comprehensively demolishes the reasons given by the ministers for refusing the application.”
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Scottish Ecological Design Association @scotecodesign.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Through community shares and collective ownership, Scots are now in a much better position to raise money and run locally-important shops and services themselves. @paulinedtas.bsky.social, chief executive of Development Trusts Association Scotland (@dtascotland.bsky.social), in @scotsman.com
scotsman.com
The democratic financial revolution that's saving community facilities across Scotland
Through community shares and collective ownership, people can raise money and run locally important shops and services themselves
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Scottish Ecological Design Association @scotecodesign.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
💼 Looking for an exciting volunteering opportunity? ♻️ The Green Drinks team are looking for a new member! 💬 If you're interested, please contact us at info@seda.scot #volunteer #scotland #seda
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Scottish Ecological Design Association @scotecodesign.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
This webinar examines design choices shaped by a young family’s priorities, including accessibility, material safety, and long-term adaptability. The session will present findings from 14 months of indoor environmental monitoring and analysis. 🕒️ - 10th March, 6-7:30pm 🔗 - seda.scot/webinar-acce...
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Scottish Ecological Design Association @scotecodesign.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Kyle and Lochalsh Community Trust has acquired part of a commercial forest beside Loch Duich with a view to building an eco-village offering affordable housing, woodland crofts and business units. It hopes the development will attract young families to the area and help keep the local school open.
bbc.co.uk
West Highland community moving forward with eco-village plans
A community trust has bought land for affordable homes and woodland crofts at Loch Duich.
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Scottish Ecological Design Association @scotecodesign.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Better Outdoors? An event on outdoor learning both at primary and secondary level, and how ScotGov and local authorities might be persuaded to get behind it. An informal discussion with some of Scotland’s top practitioners. 📌 Augustine United Church 📆 29 April, in-person and online 🤑 Free to attend
Poster for SEDA Land event on Wednesday 29 April 2026

Forest schools and outdoor nurseries are becoming more prevalent in Scotland and their benefits are well-known, so why are they not being systematically rolled out or integrated into the Scottish education system?  

Join us for a conversation covering the benefits of outdoor learning, both at primary and secondary level, and how local authorities and the Scottish government can be persuaded to recognise the part it could play in a more enlightened curriculum. 

Outdoor learning is not limited to rural schools. We will explain how, with a little imagination, it can be done in a tarmacked playground.

This will be an informal discussion with leading UK educationalists and practitioners – including nursery school managers and rangers.



Panel:

Alexia Barrable, senior lecturer in education, Queen Margaret University
Carol Murdoch, founder, Love Outdoor Learning
Davina Bowers, head, the Forest Nursery and Junior School at Merchiston Castle School, Edinburgh
Louise Licznerski, founder, Little Bugs Nursery, Fife
Jo Cooke, ranger, Midlothian Council
Rob Heasman, Beeslack High School, Midlothian
Chair: Gail Halvorsen, chair SEDA Land
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Scottish Ecological Design Association @scotecodesign.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Now is the best time in decades for Scottish farmers to convert to nature-friendly practices, according to @soilassocscot.bsky.social co-director David McKay. by @scotsman.com rural affairs correspondent @katharinehay.bsky.social
scotsman.com
'Best time in decades' for Scottish farmers to convert to organic
Recent figures show the organic food and drink market in Scotland has grown by 20.6 per cent in five years.
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Scottish Ecological Design Association @scotecodesign.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Workshops, talks, celebration of member and student work, walks, storytelling, art and song—bringing people together in connection with land, place, and one another. More details coming soon!
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Scottish Ecological Design Association @scotecodesign.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
How should the UK and Scottish Governments be working with communities and local authorities to enhance Scotland’s high streets and town centres? @rtpiplanners.bsky.social’s response to the Future of Scotland’s High Streets: Call for Evidence from House of Commons’ Scottish Affairs Committee.
rtpi.org.uk
RTPI Scotland response to the Future of Scotland's High Streets
RTPI Scotland response to the Future of Scotland's high streets: Call for evidence
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Scottish Ecological Design Association @scotecodesign.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Jeremy Leggett @highlandsrewilding.bsky.social has come up with a big new idea, the “nature prosperity pump,” which combines sustainable forestry, rewilding, and the work of Inverness-based Makar to address Scotland’s climate & biodiversity crises and its housing emergency @vickyallan.bsky.social
heraldscotland.com
Could this idea solve the housing crisis and save nature?
A green entrepreneur has come up with a big idea, he calls “nature prosperity pump”, using woodland creation to drive a new wave of timber…
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Scottish Ecological Design Association @scotecodesign.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Britain’s building standards are so bad, even the super-rich face housing misery. Residents of the UK’s most expensive flats at 1 Hyde Park have won a court case over defective pipework; if their homes are shoddily built, what hope for the rest of us?
theguardian.com
Britain’s building standards are now so bad, even the super-rich are facing housing misery | Phineas Harper
Residents of the UK’s most expensive flats have won a court case over defective pipework. If their homes are shoddily built, what hope do the rest of us have, asks writer and curator Phineas Harper
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Scottish Ecological Design Association @scotecodesign.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Just a friendly reminder about the screening of 'The Cost of Growth' in Edinburgh, 19th of February! 🔗 - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/screening-...
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Scottish Ecological Design Association @scotecodesign.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
The GOV.UK Nature Security Assessment makes it clear: biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse threaten food, water, health and stability. We need nature. Protecting and restoring it is not optional, it’s a responsibility. We must redesign how we live with the natural world — urgently and together.
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Scottish Ecological Design Association @scotecodesign.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Thank you to all participants who took part in SEDA Land's workshops in Dunbar, Gorebridge, Huntly, and Dundee. We had some stimulating discussions and have now submitted community-led and regenerative proposals for rethinking ScotGov's draft Climate Change Plan via @royalscotgeosoc.bsky.social
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Scottish Ecological Design Association @scotecodesign.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Five years after it was introduced, one of Scotland’s boldest land reform powers—giving communities the power to secure land for projects that promote long-term social, environmental and economic wellbeing—has only been used twice. Why is this?
heraldscotland.com
Scotland gave communities the power to buy land – why aren't they?
From poetry gardens to heritage orchards, just two projects have used Scotland’s sustainable land reform power. A new review could change that,…
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Scottish Ecological Design Association @scotecodesign.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
♻️ Get ready to dive deep into the world of environmental standards in our upcoming webinar 🕐 3rd February - 5:30-6:30pm🕐 🔗Book Here - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/environmen... The Webinar will provide an overview of Environmental Standards Scotland, including our core functions and statutory powers.
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Scottish Ecological Design Association @scotecodesign.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
'Stone Stories' From the Stone Futures online seminar series with Amy Wilson and Geoff Squire! 🪨 - Monday 2nd February at 13:00 - ONLINE 🔗Booking Link - architecturaltechnology.com/more/event-c... We hope to see you there! #seda #stonefutures
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Michael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Why is the sale of peat still a thing? It's pretty much the stupidest thing you can do in a climate crisis, second only to the sale of fossil fuels.
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Scottish Ecological Design Association @scotecodesign.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
The latest nuclear renaissance is a very sinister development says ex Guardian environment writer Paul Brown. Starmer’s government has gone gung-ho on nuclear—to the utter dismay of many environmentalists, forcing the public to watch as billions of pounds of our money is poured down the drain.
theguardian.com
‘I have watched politicians failing yet and yet again’: lessons from a life as an environment writer
Paul Brown looks back at his career reporting on the climate crisis, failed summit and nuclear power – and how to do it well
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Scottish Ecological Design Association @scotecodesign.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
“It’s about energy and time and capital and how these forces come into our lives and how we work through them.” @dominicmhinde.bsky.social was interviewed about his new book Drifting North: Finding A Sustainable Future in Scotland's Past, by @bellacaledonia.bsky.social
bellacaledonia.org.uk
Drifting North
I interviewed Dominic Hinde, author of Drifting North, finding a sustainable future in Scotland’s past (Manchester University Press, 2025). It’s an unusually readable book you’ve …
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Scottish Ecological Design Association @scotecodesign.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Looking for an interesting read? Check out this article by Colin Porteous reflecting on COP26. ♻️ 🔗 - seda.scot/cop26 #seda #cop26
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