Highland Park Distillery in Kirkwall is 222 years old and trying to make it a more energy efficient building without compromising the quality of the product is quite a balancing act.
The Challenge of Energy Use in Traditional Industrial Buildings
Developing Alternatives: ‘Green’ Food Containers
“Making food containers is challenging. It needs more than being biodegradable.”
Revealing the Human Response to Sea Level Rise in the Neolithic Era
With climate change now driving rapid sea-level rise, the team says the effects will not always be as simple as a forced human retreat from coasts.
Help The RSPB With Your Film Clips of 2020
The RSPB is asking the public to get involved in their end of year video.
A Bit Of A Mystery…
“Here’s the tale…..”
A Just Transition for Orkney’s Future Transport?
Whenever we discuss the climate emergency it is important to keep to the fore the values of a Just Transition which should underpin all the decisions being made – at every level – governmental, organisational and individual.
18.8% of Household Waste in Orkney was Recycled in 2019
2.4 million tonnes of household waste was generated in Scotland in 2019, a slight increase from 2018.
“Regenerative farming is the way to go.”
Two speakers – Dr Sarah Crowe an ecologist and Erlend Spence an Orcadian farmer both spoke about the actions they have taken and how we can move forward in Orkney to improve our natural environment.
What Is Wrong With These People?
“Why people should choose to drive out to a beauty spot, or place of historical/archaeological interest, to dump their rubbish, is beyond me “
The Right To Peaceful Skies?
“an international public forum to develop a new human right to protect the freedom to live without physical or psychological threat from above”
