Environment
Scottish Waste Environmental Footprint Tool (SWEFT)
Author / Creator: Donald Chapman
Media type: Article
Date published:
The Scottish Waste Environmental Footprint Tool (SWEFT) provides a holistic picture of the environmental impact of the things we dispose of from our homes.
National Good Food Nation Plan
Author / Creator: Scottish Government
Media type: Article
Date published:
The national Good Food Nation Plan sets out six over-arching Outcomes for a Good Food Nation; the range of targets and indicators that will be used to gauge progress towards achieving them; and details of a wide range of food-related policies and initiatives from across the Scottish Government.
No New Peterhead Gas
Author / Creator: Mike Small
Media type: Article
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SSE and Equinor have submitted a planning application for a new gas burning power station at Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. The application is for an additional plant alongside the existing Peterhead gas burning power station, which is already Scotland’s single biggest polluters.
The Land of Scotland and the Common Good - The Land Reform Review Group 10 Years Later
Author / Creator: Andy Wightman
Media type: Article
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Ten years ago today, the Land Reform Review Group (LRRG) published its Final Report.
Building a New Scotland: Our marine sector in an independent Scotland
Author / Creator: Scottish Government
Media type: White paper
Date published: 2024
Scotland’s marine sector is an area of significant size, strength and value.
A Difficult Choice? Inside the UK/Outside the EU vs. Inside the EU/Outside the UK
Author / Creator: Alex Scholes
Media type: Report
Date published: 2024
20% - 30% think there will be no difference to most elements of economic life whether Scotland is in the EU or with UK outside the EU
A Human Rights Bill for Scotland: consultation analysis
Author / Creator: Scottish Government
Media type: Report
Date published: 2024
Consultation on A Human Rights Bill for Scotland
A’ Dùsgadh na Gaoithe / Waking the Wind; Finding the Folklore of a Fragile Ecology
Author / Creator: Raghnaid Sandilands
Media type: Article
Date published: 2023
Gaelic language and culture have intimate connections to the environment.
Breaking New Ground? Developing a Scottish tax to replace the UK Aggregates Levy: consultation
Author / Creator: Scottish Government
Media type: Consultation paper
Date published: 2022
How a new and distinctive Scottish aggregates tax, replacing the UK levy, should be structured and operate.
Independence in the modern world. Wealthier, happier, fairer: why not Scotland?
Author / Creator: Scottish Government
Media type: Report
Date published: 2022
This paper sets out a detailed analysis of the UK’s performance across a range of economic and social indicators relative to that of ten European countries.
Arguing for Independence: Evidence, Risk and the Wicked Issues
Author / Creator: Stephen Maxwell
Media type: Book
Date published: 2012
This book offers a case for independence under six main headings
George Monbiot: Independent Scotland could show a way out of climate crisis
Author / Creator: Spowart, Nan
Media type: newspaper article
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George Monbiot interview highlights the need for mass mobilisation to combat climate change. The 2014 Scottish Independence movement provides a good example of how to create a mass movement in the 21st century.
IPCC Special; with 21 Actions for Scotland to do Right Now
Author / Creator: Craig Dalzell
Media type: Podcast
Date published:
Common Weal’s latest policy paper 21 For 21 and actions that the Scottish Government should take immediately in light of the IPCC report.
Common Weal podcast #96