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The latest Transition Black Isle news can be found below.

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Nairn community group supports individual projects as group events cancelled

26 April 2020

Nairn River Enterprise and Green Hive In the context of plans for community action on the Black Isle in relation to the Coronavirus crisis, Martin Sherring has drawn attention to how this community...
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Veg consumption DOWN following 5-a-day campaign

24 April 2020

This disturbing statistic was revealed at an event promoted by Nourish Scotland, an NGO campaigning on food justice, which is the Scotland partner on the Food Foundation UK  'Peas Pl...
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Gardeners! - Seeds, Compost and Onion sets available in Dingwall

22 April 2020

In the face of what is apparently a general shortage of seeds and compost in the shops, Lesley points out that Macdonalds Hardware in Dingwall have stocks of both, as well as onion sets.  Macdona...
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22 April was Earth Day - promoted by the US-based Earth Day Network

16 April 2020

This year is the 50th anniversary of the setting up of Earth Day Network and the first Earth Day.   There seems to be surprisingly little on the websites earthday.org and earthday.org/e...
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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.