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

Talk by Islay Energy Trust 23 July

Lots of local interest for Kirsten Gow's talk on heat pumps and whether a sea-source system in Loch Indaal could heat the hostel building and possibly others in the village.

Geology Walk at Kilchiaran 21 july

A very wet but enjoyable geology walk at kilchiaran today. 10 people braved the rain as we peered into the billion-year gap, saw glacial striations and marine moraines and pebble-hunted for flint and red and green apples (pink gneiss and green metagabbro).

Bug hotels and shell mosaics - 18th July

Great photos from our morning spent with Islay & Jura Youth Action earlier this week, what a busy time we had with a keen, fun bunch of kids. It really was a pleasure to help them build a lovely bug hotel in an old whisky barrel and do some shell mosaics.

Otter Detectives 13th July

Scorching hot afternoon for our first ever Otter Detective Walk looking at otter habitats, tracks and signs and learning about otter ecology. Thanks to everyone who came along. Happy otter spotting

Rockpooling at Swans Pool

Rockpool and shore exploration on July 13th at Swans Pool with an enthusiastic bunch of kids from the Cyber Cafe. Followed up with some crafty stuff back at the cyber.

Hope to see you all again on the 3rd August for some more outdoor adventures.

Scavangers Hunt with Islay & Jura Youth Action

On Tuesday 11th July INHT ran a scavengers hunt with Islay & Jura Youth Action at the Battery. We will be back on the 16th to do more exciting activities at the centre. Thank you Beth Clark for leading the session

Centre Refurbishment

We have made a start on upgrading the centre... starting with changing the displays around, and moving the central display to create a feeling of more space.

We now have some seating, help-yourself tea/coffee juice and biscuits...

and a new mural at the entrance (thank you Bruichladdich folk)

plus a new sea tank. Come and see us!

July Walks and Activities

Come and join us for a range of walks and activities this month...

First ... the Sunday Walk Programme..

and Secondly ... our Summer Activity Programme. All our Thursday sessions are provided free of charge due to a grant we received from the the Health & Well Being Fund through Argyll & Bute Health and Social Care Partnership for which we are very thankful. 
If however you would like to donate to the session a suggested donation of £2 per person would help us to continue to ensure the sessions can run in the future. We are also partnering up with the Cyber Cafe, Islay & Jura Youth Action and Jura Juniors to deliver some sessions for them.

June walks and activities programme.

june has finished but here was our sunday walk programme for the record!

(it says 2018 but we meant 2019!)

Geology Walk 23rd June

Ten budding geologists enjoyed the Saligo rocks on Sunday. Lots of flint finds too.plus the obigatory human 'timeline'.