Transition Black Isle is part of the worldwide Transition movement, and we see our role as helping Black Isle communities thrive in the face of climate change and disruption to global resources.  Our activities include encouraging non-car travel, promoting energy saving measures, running community markets, supporting local food producers as well as helping people to grow more of their own food and to make their own compost.

As a partner in the Highland Community Waste Partnership, TBI is actively working with the community to reduce waste and consumption and increase reuse, repair and recycling.

Caroline Lucas on Just Stop Oil activists'sentences

'Five years in prison for nonviolent protest: it’s plain wrong, and Keir Starmer knows it'

As prison sentences of up to five years given to 'Just Stop Oil' activists in 2023 were to be reviewed by the Court of Appeal, former Green Party MP Caroline Lucas notes the widespread protests by national and international organisations against 'sentences which were believed to be the harshest ever for peaceful protest in Britain'. . .'For damaging picture frames, obstructing the road, or just talking about obstructing the road, they have received punishments that we would normally reserve for serious crimes. People trying to draw attention to the government failure to confront the cause of the climate crisis were imprisoned for up to five years'.

She warns that  'If the courts let 16 climate activists’ draconian sentences stand this week, we are no better than an authoritarian state'.

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The Guardian  29 January 2025

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