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The latest Transition Black Isle news can be found below.

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We must change food production to save the world - latest IPCC report

16 September 2019

We must change food production to save the world The wide scope of the latest, not very widely publicised report from the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), is indicated by its ...
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Greta lambasts world leaders at UN

14 September 2019

Monday 23 September Swedish climate change activist Greta Thunberg delivered a fiercely emotional speech at the United Nations in New York today, during a climate change summit convened by UN Secre...
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Sustainable travel on Arran - an invitation

12 September 2019

WE have been contacted by Arran Eco Savvy about an Active and Sustainable Travel project they are running on the island, which has similarities to the Million Miles project run by TBI a few years ago,...
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Scottish Parliament petition to ban single-use plastics

10 September 2019

Mark Purrett of Portree High School has sent a link to a Scottish Parliament  petition promoted by Stephen Henry, "calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to ban s...
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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.