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The latest Transition Black Isle news can be found below.

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We have overshot Earth's capacity for this year

28 August 2022

July 28th was this year's Earth Overshoot day Earth Overshoot Day marks the date when humanity has used all the biological resources that Earth regenerates during the entire year. Sin...
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New planning move on Coul Links golf course

06 July 2022

The group Communities4Coul, which is campaigning for the building of a golf course and hotel on coastal dunes at Coul Links north of Dornoch, lodged a pre-Planning Application Notice (PAN) f...
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Good Food and Waste Incineration

02 July 2022

Two topics which are perhaps not the best bedfellows, but both the subject of Scottish Parliament and Government  activity recently. On Tuesday 15 June the Government's Good Food Nation bi...
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Newsletter from Centre for Alternative Technology, Wales

14 June 2022

We have received an interesting newsletter (and appeal) from the CAT, based at  Machynlleth in Powys, with information about their wide range of activities and training and volunteering oppo...
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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.