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The latest Transition Black Isle news can be found below.

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Coul Links golf course application approved

06 December 2023

Highland Council's North Area Planning Committee today (6 December) granted the planning application for a golf course on Coul Links north of Dornoch, against the recommendation of planning o...
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TRAINING OPPORTUNITY - Black Isle Brewery market garden

14 November 2023

The Black Isle Brewery is offering agroecological traineeships from February to November 2024 at its Market garden at Allangrange. Join the Black Isle Brewery Farm team in Munlochy, Scotland! ...
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Proposal and consultation for Scottish Parliament Member's bill to ban Ecocide

09 November 2023

Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, hopes to introduce a Member's Bill in the Scottish Parliament to make ecocide an international crime.  She writes The opportunity to secure a livea...
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Pumped storage hydro and rewilding - Two sides of the same sustainability coin?

08 November 2023

There is news of a proposal for the biggest pumped storage Hydro scheme in the UK at Laggan, and an ambitious scheme for the re-wilding of the Dalnacardoch Estate in the Cairngorms. The pumped...
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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.