Climate Change Talk 23 Sept 2019

A fantastic talk this evening by Alasdair Skelton explaining the science of climate change in such a concise and easily understandable way.

 A full house in the lecture room with locals and Alasdair's students who have come to Islay to learn about the Earth's historical climate changes.

Alasdair also gave this talk to the students in the High School .

Alasdair has helped us better understand and appreciate the problems and the possible solutions we can all adapt to to make a difference.

A link to a video of the event (on youtube) is below:
 

Download a copy of the talk

The android version of the smartphone app he mentioned to enable you to caculate your own CO2 footprint is available in the google 'Play Store'. Search for 'onetonnefuture'. A link is here

The offsetting technology that Alasdair mentioned which involves converting CO2 to rock (and other CO2 recovery technologies) can be seen at climeworks.com 

This website has a link to their climeworks.shop site where you can pay an appropriate monthly amount to offset your emissions.

Seaweed Foraging & Cooking - 22 July

Wonderful morning of Seaweed at the Nature Centre for Taste Islay & Jura today. Lovely to see so many visitors and locals coming along.

We ended up running a second cooking demo and info session as more folk turned up in the afternoon. Happy days




We also sold lots of Copies of our new leaflet which we have just had printed on Seaweed foraging and preparation. These can be purchased for £3 in the Nature Centre.

Calmac Community Fund

We are very happy to announce that we were successful in our application to the CalMac Community Fund to the tune of £1993.20. 
This will help us to deliver both our Children & Families Activity programme next season and also work with local youth groups throughout the year focusing on Bushcraft type activities. 
We are looking forward to planning these activities and will be announcing more details in the coming weeks. @CalMacFerries #calmacferries CalMac Ferries