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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.

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Latest Home page feature article
Private Sufficiency, Public Luxury


Black Isle Repair Cafe 

The monthly Black Isle Repair Café roams the community spaces of the Black Isle with the aim of making repair and reuse more accessible to residents.
 

Food and Growing

TBI has produced a comprehensive Growing Guide (still available) for the north of Scotland, run several series of 'Grow North' workshops on a range of growing topics, and a very popular seed potato sale in early March.

Climate change

We provide  information about the serious threat posed by climate change and the need to drastically reduce carbon emissions caused by our burning of fossil fuels.  We report on governments' climate change plans, on activists' climate protests and on 'Green New Deal' proposals for a more sustainable world.

Black Isle Larder

The Black Isle Larder website replaces an earlier 'Your Local Larder' booklet which had become out of date.  It provides up to date information both to local people and visitors about Black Isle producers and suppliers offering food and drink largely sourced here.  

Travel and Tourism

TBI's Million Miles project reduced car use significantly, and we continue to encourage public transport and cycling, with an associated bike hire business and publication of an Active Travel map and guides to Black Isle cycle routes.

Plastics and waste

With pollution from single-use plastics a top cause of environmental concern, a group has been set up within TBI to exchange ideas and information on the issue and ultimately to change the attitudes and actions of people and businesses on the Black Isle.


George Monbiot: Private Sufficiency, Public Luxury

In October 2020 George Monbiot delivered the 40th E.F. Schumacher lecture, on the topic

Private Sufficiency, Public Luxury: Land is the key to the transformation of society.

Tracing the concept of property rights to seventeenth-century philosopher John Locke, Monbiot wonders why it is possible to own land, and why it is so near-universally accepted that it is possible and reasonable for individuals and corporations to use their unequal wealth to acquire the exclusive right to the use of vast amounts of land and other property, and deny access to all others.  He evokes the alternative lost and nearly-forgotten concept of the commons,  and suggests that we should use control over the land - 'the ground on which we stand . . . as a basis for the wider democratization of society, the wider protection of our living planet, the wider sharing of the prosperity of our living planet and its natural wealth, not just within generations but between generations'.

It's quite a long read, but well worth while.

Read the lecture transcript

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Forthcoming Events…

Wednesday 13 December
19:30 Transition Together recruit and revive forum
Thursday 14 December
19:00 GGFP film - 'Rooted: Growing a Local Ecosystem'
Saturday 16 December
10:00 Culbokie Community Market
Saturday 6 January
13:00 BLACK ISLE REPAIR CAFE Victoria Hall, Cromarty

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We are part of the rapidly expanding worldwide Transition Towns movement. The Black Isle is a peninsula of about 100 sq miles ENE of Inverness in Scotland, UK.