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Community Learning Exchange - Scottish Community Alliance

The Community Learning Exchange fund is now open! Apply for costs to visit other groups and organisations to develop your ideas and practice across Scotland. www.scottishcommunityalliance.org.uk/community-le...

Vacancy: Three-week summer journalism internship at Carbon Brief - Carbon Brief Carbon Brief is offering an exciting opportunity for students, or recent graduates, to work with the team for three weeks this summer.

🚨Internship opportunity 🚨

Do you have:
🌡️ an interest in climate change?
✍️ some experience of writing on a technical topic for a general audience?
🎙️ an interest in journalism and a commitment to the integrity of journalism?

Apply for Carbon Brief’s internship here ⬇️

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Can You Really Fight Populism With Populism? The American left’s favorite double act hopes it has the key to rallying the anti-Trump resistance—and timid Democrats.

"Sanders and AOC are on the very long list of liberal politicians who are mad as hell, but on the very short list of those who aren’t going to take it anymore." www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Climate Disinformation ‘Normalised’ on French TV and Radio, Report Finds Climate disinformation was routinely broadcast in news programmes across French TV and radio in the first three months of 2025, with 128 verified cases identified by an alliance of NGOs. Using AI to i...

🔴 Climate Disinformation ‘Normalised’ on French TV and Radio, Report Finds

New findings from an alliance of NGOs challenges the belief that disinformation is confined to social media.

📝 @joeygrostern.bsky.social

Millions tune in for three-week live stream of Sweden’s moose migration Slow TV is attracting viewers with hits such as a knitting marathon, burning firewood and swimming salmon Most of the time, nothing much happens. A wide Nordic river, melting snow still lining its banks, meanders peacefully through a pristine forest of spruce and pine. But this spring, as every spring for the past six years, a lot of people will be glued to it. When Den stora älgvandringen – variously translated as The Great Moose Migration or The Great Elk Trek – first aired on the public broadcaster SVT’s on-demand platform in 2019, nearly a million people tuned in. Last year, it was 9 million. Continue reading...

Millions tune in for three-week live stream of Sweden’s moose migration

I honestly don’t know what’s scarier - the impending apocalypse or the right wing media’s coordinated disinformation campaign to try to make us look the other way so we don’t attempt to stop it. 😢

Britain’s better off with citizen journalism From lockdowns to letdowns, five years on Anthony Robinson reflects on Brexit, citizen journalism, and a nation still adrift

🔥 5 years of replacing billionaire press with homegrown citizen journalism. 🔥

“None of us were proper hacks, even novice ones, or knew our way around the back end of a WordPress website, but we somehow muddled through together… We finally went live on 15 April.”

Donate - Bylines Network By donating to the Bylines Network you are helping us become a stronger, more sustainable power for good! Donate directly via your bank account to avoid us paying fees Payments are processed through o...

Today is @yorkshirebylines.co.uk and @bylinesnetwork.co.uk 5th birthday and we wouldn't have gotten to where we are without your support.

Please give what you to wish #HappybirthdayYorkshireBylines and we can continue to hold #TruthToPower

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A dossier and a picture of David Davis

We kick start our Speaking Truth to Power week with this incredible article from Yorkshire Bylines /1
#TruthToPower

Davis Downside Dossier: the first year

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#TruthToPower @yorkshirebylines.co.uk @anthonybylines.bsky.social

How to Enter the US With Your Digital Privacy Intact Crossing into the United States has become increasingly dangerous for digital privacy. Here are a few steps you can take to minimize the risk of Customs and Border Protection accessing your data.

Crossing into the United States has become increasingly dangerous for digital privacy. If you are planning to enter the US, here are a few steps you can take to minimize the risk of Customs and Border Protection accessing your data.

Local Power Plan event invitation

Delighted that in partnership with the British Institute of Energy Economics, the Strathclyde Institute for Sustainable Communities will be hosting the following event:

*The Local Power Plan: Powering a community energy revolution in Scotland?*

Rewiring Local Economies: Community Wealth Building for a Just Transition This report aims to demonstrate how CWB can be a powerful instrument to achieve a just transition.

The Scottish Government has committed to delivering the world’s first Community Wealth Building Act. In this report, co-director @miriambrett.bsky.social explores how community wealth building can be a powerful catalyst for achieving a just transition.

Community benefits from renewables: give us your views! Sottish Government Community Benefits Consultation - with Scottish Community Coalition on Energy and Scottish Community Alliance

Have Your Say on Community Benefits from Renewables

Scotland’s renewables bring community benefit funds—but are they fair? The Scottish Government is reviewing its guidance. Help us shape our response!

🔗 Register and more info:

Trying to do some work while listening to the Dundee Radio Club festival of delicious community audio...On all weekend at dundeeradio.club - listen out for my story on Sat arvo!

Thrive, training to power up your Transition group, starts 19 February

Super excited to kick off our Spring training tomorrow with Launch 🚀 short course for new groups & anyone getting something started in their community.
Also gearing up for our Thrive course 🌱 to help groups to reflect, grow & change direction.
Sign up: transitiontogether.org.uk/training/

In London and looking for a book? Check out this handy map of bookswap locations.

YouTube video by Dave Goulson Buzz Club

This short and sweet video about Buzz Club activities 2025 will hopefully raise a smile...
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A group of local people stand outside the partly completed barn they are building as a community space. A child is jumping on the pile of earth at the front of the group.

Bridgehouse Gardens community group in South London has been on an incredible journey.

Together, they have transformed a disused, vacant tarmac site into a thriving forest garden and built by hand a new community learning space, The Winslade Barn. Along the way, participants have learnt amazing

Tayport in 2030

It was indeed - always warms the heart to see how many people care and do for the future! The energy is infectious in the best possible way. BTW I wanted to add another time machine to your little collection - we built one here in Tayport for COP26! izi.travel/en/2ebe-tayp...

Hi Rob, good to see you here! Really enjoyed the talk about your new book tonight. I'm slowly moving away from twitter and probably FB now too so it would be great to be able to follow you here!

A few places left on our free heritage stories podcast workshop! A great opportunity to learn new skills, meet new people, and develop your own audio-visual project. Sign up here: tinyurl.com/47e936f5

I'm looking for musicians, artists, writers, filmmakers, etc. who are passionate about translating science to a broader audience. The field is at the intersection of geoscience, paleo, climate, biology, and conservation. This is a funded opportunity. Tag your favorite STEAM folks, please!

Lights, Camera, Climate Action! 🎬

As MSPs return to set, we need a new storyline to get climate action back on track for positive impacts on our health, jobs, and planet.

Ask MSPs to write a better script this year.

➡️ sccs.eaction.org.uk/climate

#ScotlandUnitedForClimateAction

red flesh torn open
rosehip winter sacrifice
to hungry bird beaks

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damp fen darkening
beckons its feathered flocks home
cranes, like clockwork, come

#wlchaiku
@walklistencreate.org