SEDA are delighted to hear that Howard Liddell, one its co-founders, has been awarded an OBE for services to ecological design and charity. Howard, one of SEDA's most staunch supporters since helping to establish the organisation in 1991, commented that he hopes the citation to be "an acknowledgment of the ...

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Images: by Kirsty Ward The Big Shed, a new-build community owned building in Highland Perthshire, has an Art Space availablefor hire. The space would generally be suited to Artists working with clean media: Digitalfilm/photography, textiles, weaving, leather-work, jewelry, small scale painting and printing, model-makers, illustrators, poets, writers, collaborators, performance, sound ...

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Norma Macleod writes: We are a new group to building....have planted trees and run a domestic cooked-food composting scheme using the "rocket" composter. We have planning permission to build a2-level community space in the Irvine Bay area of North Ayrshire. We would like to use as much recycled material as ...

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SEDA Steering Group member, Chris Morgan (Locate Architects) will be among those speaking at the Solid Wall Insulation Conference, Friday 20th April 2012, Edinburgh Exploring barriers, solutions and new approaches to insulating Scottish solid masonry wallsAs the Green Deal and Energy Company Obligation (ECO) approach, there is an increasing focus ...

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Scotland s 2009 emissions fell three per cent below the 2010 target according to the report of the Committee on Climate Change (CCC). Full article: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/News/Releases/2012/01/climatechange31012012

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Skills Development Scotland is currently operating a low carbon skills fund. Applications are still being accepted up to 31st March 2012. The Low Carbon Skills Fund gives Scottish businesses with up to 250 employees the opportunity to apply for up to 12,500 towards employee training costs. It provides funding for ...

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This consultation is on proposals for regulation and guidance.Section 63 of CO(S)A 2009 requires regulations to be made for the assessment of the energy performance of existing non-domestic and the Green House gas emissions from such buildings; and for building owners to make improvements to their buildings. Consultation period 7Oct ...

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The UK Government is proposing to reduce Feed-in Tariffs (FITs) for new solar photovoltaic (PV)installations as part of their comprehensive review consultation. See http://www.decc.gov.uk/fits If you install solar PV and your FITs application is received by your FIT supplier (also known as FITLicensee) on or after 8 December 2011, you ...

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NVA s Glasgow Harvest is a celebration of local food, hosted by community gardens in the South, East, North and West of the city. An irreverent homage to the village f te centred on the Harvest Meal each celebration features live music, communal cooking, food sharing, workshops and competitions. New ...

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THE head of Swedish energy giant Vattenfall says he will not be intimidated by Donald Trump's threats to thwart the development of a 150 million offshore wind farm less than two miles from the American tycoon's forthcoming golf resort. http://www.scotsman.com/business/Wind-farm39s-developer-refuses-to.6841992.jp

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