Scottish Ecological Design Association

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This webinar examines design choices shaped by a young family’s priorities, including accessibility, material safety, and long-term adaptability. The session will present findings from 14 months of indoor environmental monitoring and analysis.

🕒️ - 10th March, 6-7:30pm
🔗 - seda.scot/webinar-acce...

Climate coverage is shrinking. We're expanding it. Announcing a new weekly video podcast!

the epidemic of men launching podcasts about nothing has gotten out of control

to combat this I am launching a podcast WITH A WOMAN (veteran climate journalist Tracy Wholf) to talk about stuff that actually matters (the planet being destroyed by the worst people alive)

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Sounds right up our street.

West Highland community moving forward with eco-village plans A community trust has bought land for affordable homes and woodland crofts at Loch Duich.

Kyle and Lochalsh Community Trust has acquired part of a commercial forest beside Loch Duich with a view to building an eco-village offering affordable housing, woodland crofts and business units. It hopes the development will attract young families to the area and help keep the local school open.

Poster for SEDA Land event on Wednesday 29 April 2026 Forest schools and outdoor nurseries are becoming more prevalent in Scotland and their benefits are well-known, so why are they not being systematically rolled out or integrated into the Scottish education system? Join us for a conversation covering the benefits of outdoor learning, both at primary and secondary level, and how local authorities and the Scottish government can be persuaded to recognise the part it could play in a more enlightened curriculum. Outdoor learning is not limited to rural schools. We will explain how, with a little imagination, it can be done in a tarmacked playground. This will be an informal discussion with leading UK educationalists and practitioners – including nursery school managers and rangers. Panel: Alexia Barrable, senior lecturer in education, Queen Margaret University Carol Murdoch, founder, Love Outdoor Learning Davina Bowers, head, the Forest Nursery and Junior School at Merchiston Castle School, Edinburgh Louise Licznerski, founder, Little Bugs Nursery, Fife Jo Cooke, ranger, Midlothian Council Rob Heasman, Beeslack High School, Midlothian Chair: Gail Halvorsen, chair SEDA Land

Better Outdoors? An event on outdoor learning both at primary and secondary level, and how ScotGov and local authorities might be persuaded to get behind it. An informal discussion with some of Scotland’s top practitioners.

📌 Augustine United Church
📆 29 April, in-person and online
🤑 Free to attend

Poster for SEDA Land event on Wednesday 29 April 2026 Forest schools and outdoor nurseries are becoming more prevalent in Scotland and their benefits are well-known, so why are they not being systematically rolled out or integrated into the Scottish education system? Join us for a conversation covering the benefits of outdoor learning, both at primary and secondary level, and how local authorities and the Scottish government can be persuaded to recognise the part it could play in a more enlightened curriculum. Outdoor learning is not limited to rural schools. We will explain how, with a little imagination, it can be done in a tarmacked playground. This will be an informal discussion with leading UK educationalists and practitioners – including nursery school managers and rangers. Panel: Alexia Barrable, senior lecturer in education, Queen Margaret University Carol Murdoch, founder, Love Outdoor Learning Davina Bowers, head, the Forest Nursery and Junior School at Merchiston Castle School, Edinburgh Louise Licznerski, founder, Little Bugs Nursery, Fife Jo Cooke, ranger, Midlothian Council Rob Heasman, Beeslack High School, Midlothian Chair: Gail Halvorsen, chair SEDA Land

Better Outdoors? An event on outdoor learning both at primary and secondary level, and how ScotGov and local authorities might be persuaded to get behind it. An informal discussion with some of Scotland’s top practitioners.

📌 Augustine United Church
📆 29 April, in-person and online
🤑 Free to attend

'Best time in decades' for Scottish farmers to convert to organic Recent figures show the organic food and drink market in Scotland has grown by 20.6 per cent in five years.

Now is the best time in decades for Scottish farmers to convert to nature-friendly practices, according to @soilassocscot.bsky.social co-director David McKay.

by @scotsman.com rural affairs correspondent @katharinehay.bsky.social

For context mass built homes in Scotland are timber. They likely have a brick/render skin but they are timber buildings. Also worthwhile remembering Scotland has had tighter fire regs than England for most of the 21st century. The three little pigs is literally propaganda from brick manufacturers.

Glass fibre insulation is much higher embodied carbon than straw. The sheep wool mentioned above is 25% plastic content(better than burning! Straw locks up carbon in its use and used properly fire risk is no greater than many other types of insulation. Hemp and wood fibre are also great options.

There's the real cost, but there's also someone down the line who pays.

Workshops, talks, celebration of member and student work, walks, storytelling, art and song—bringing people together in connection with land, place, and one another. More details coming soon!

Burning fuel to deliver fuel that will be burned.

If we switched to #renewableenergy, the number of ships crossing the ocean would fall by 40% because they're just carrying coal & oil & gas!! buff.ly/dpTrSpO

We have the solutions. Implement them. #ActOnClimate

#ClimateAction #climate #energy #GreenNewDeal

We all came here to get away from X.

Design Guides — Scottish Ecological Design Association

seda.scot/design-guides don't forget to keep an eye on the contract doing the works 👀 Workmanship is everything! Good luck!

RTPI Scotland response to the Future of Scotland's High Streets RTPI Scotland response to the Future of Scotland's high streets: Call for evidence

How should the UK and Scottish Governments be working with communities and local authorities to enhance Scotland’s high streets and town centres?

@rtpiplanners.bsky.social’s response to the Future of Scotland’s High Streets: Call for Evidence from House of Commons’ Scottish Affairs Committee.

Could this idea solve the housing crisis and save nature? A green entrepreneur has come up with a big idea, he calls “nature prosperity pump”, using woodland creation to drive a new wave of timber…

Jeremy Leggett @highlandsrewilding.bsky.social has come up with a big new idea, the “nature prosperity pump,” which combines sustainable forestry, rewilding, and the work of Inverness-based Makar to address Scotland’s climate & biodiversity crises and its housing emergency @vickyallan.bsky.social

Britain’s building standards are now so bad, even the super-rich are facing housing misery | Phineas Harper Residents of the UK’s most expensive flats have won a court case over defective pipework. If their homes are shoddily built, what hope do the rest of us have, asks writer and curator Phineas Harper

Britain’s building standards are so bad, even the super-rich face housing misery. Residents of the UK’s most expensive flats at 1 Hyde Park have won a court case over defective pipework; if their homes are shoddily built, what hope for the rest of us?

The different patterns are an easy way to tell the different phases of the station. Lovely photo.

Just a friendly reminder about the screening of 'The Cost of Growth' in Edinburgh, 19th of February!

🔗 - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/screening-...

The GOV.UK Nature Security Assessment makes it clear: biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse threaten food, water, health and stability.

We need nature. Protecting and restoring it is not optional, it’s a responsibility. We must redesign how we live with the natural world — urgently and together.

Thank you to all participants who took part in SEDA Land's workshops in Dunbar, Gorebridge, Huntly, and Dundee. We had some stimulating discussions and have now submitted community-led and regenerative proposals for rethinking ScotGov's draft Climate Change Plan via @royalscotgeosoc.bsky.social

Scotland gave communities the power to buy land – why aren't they? From poetry gardens to heritage orchards, just two projects have used Scotland’s sustainable land reform power. A new review could change that,…

Five years after it was introduced, one of Scotland’s boldest land reform powers—giving communities the power to secure land for projects that promote long-term social, environmental and economic wellbeing—has only been used twice. Why is this?

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Came for the interesting anecdote, stayed for the novella in the comments 🍿

So many aspects of the dear green place in a single, beautiful, view.

♻️ Get ready to dive deep into the world of environmental standards in our upcoming webinar

🕐 3rd February - 5:30-6:30pm🕐

🔗Book Here - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/environmen...

The Webinar will provide an overview of Environmental Standards Scotland, including our core functions and statutory powers.

'Stone Stories' From the Stone Futures online seminar series with Amy Wilson and Geoff Squire!

🪨 - Monday 2nd February at 13:00 - ONLINE

🔗Booking Link - architecturaltechnology.com/more/event-c...

We hope to see you there!

#seda #stonefutures

Sunday Video: Seoul Removed Highway, Restored River, and Traffic Got Better » The Urbanist # Jason Slaughter of Not Just Bikes showcases what Cheonggyecheon Expressway is like today, after being converted back to a creek and pedestrian pathway, including newer improvements in recent years.

NEW // Sunday Video: Seoul Removed Highway, Restored River, and Traffic Got Better www.theurbanist.org/2026/01/11/s...