This is old news, but definitely worth sharing again. Nice to end the year with some hope for the future. 💚

💥 We joined 200+ other organizations urging Congress to halt the reckless data center boom until protections for our climate + communities are in place. Date centers: 💸 Gobble up energy and raise electric bills 💧Monopolize communities' water supplies 🌪️ Worsen the climate crisis bit.ly/4aBw9J2

8/ 💸 We Can Pay For It We showed how rich countries can unlock $6.6 trillion per year for climate action by ending fossil fuel subsidies, taxing extreme wealth, and fixing global finance. There’s no financial excuse for inaction. oilchange.org/publications...

Great work @aprscotland.bsky.social and @ercscot.bsky.social !

Every day, more and more people are joining the Scottish Greens! We're fighting to put people and planet at the heart of Scottish politics, to take on the super-rich and tackle the climate crisis. Be part of our people-powered movement. green.scot/join

Craigmillar Library was the perfect place to talk with people about community ownership of heating systems. As the statue of local legend Helen Crummy says: "History will be made wedged the people play their part". Help us make this happen by doing our short survey 👉 tinyurl.com/survey-heat

Great to talk with Craigmillar representatives @chrismurraymp.bsky.social & @sarahboyack.bsky.social about our community-owned heat network project! ♥️ Heating is essential and must be affordable to everyone. We have a vision of how to make this happen. To help, fill in our survey (see poster). 🙏

Great to see people standing up to Jim Ratcliffe. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

We want Edinburgh to have community heat networks that keep bills low and cut carbon. To make this happen, we need your input. 👉 Fill in the short survey: tinyurl.com/survey-heat What is your current experience of heating your home? What needs to change? You could win £50 in a prize draw!

Thanks @alynsmith.bsky.social for mentioning Community Energy Scotland and our manifesto ideas! Looking forward to seeing some of them in the SNP election campaign. @cescotland.bsky.social #DebateNight

I'm speaking at this event tomorrow about our community-led heat network project. Come join for soup and inspiration! 🍲

Feeling proud to be a Scottish Green, at our biggest conference in a decade. As @ross-greer.bsky.social said - We are the party of HOPE. Powerful speeches from our new Co-Leaders. We have a Scotland to win and a green future to build. @gillianmacmsp.bsky.social

As @tessakhan.bsky.social says about onshore wind that's owned by foreign-based multinationals: "Communities feel like that wealth is being extracted rather than starting with them. The policy rules to fix that are obvious." Policy changes like these: communityenergy.scot/manifesto-fo...

Good to hear WWF Director @langbanks.bsky.social and @ross-greer.bsky.social MSP talking about how we need *more community and public ownership of energy*, at the @scottishgreens.org conference. With @tessakhan.bsky.social from Uplift and @gillianmacmsp.bsky.social MSP.

Great role at another great organisation!

This is why we need to price electricity differently and stop pegging it to the wholesale price of gas. Especially in Scotland where most of our electricity comes from renewables! Renewables produce much cheaper electricity, but we're not feeling the benefit. The wholesale market needs transformed

Interested? Help us urge our politicians to support more community power 👉 communityenergy.scot/manifesto-fo...

My highlights from @cescotland.bsky.social conference: > @lesleyriddoch.bsky.social urging: "take back the power" ⚡ > Youth panellist on working in community energy: "being part of something that helps my neighbours, my friends, the people around me" > @ellengrunewald.bsky.social on heat networks!

Great to have the First Minister @johnswinney.bsky.social come out to the Mass Climate Lobby. Now Scottish Government must turn words into action and use the Climate Plan to make homes warmer, bills cheaper, transport greener. Public money must support those who are struggling, not tech bros!

Great to hear from people across Mid Scotland and Fife on a range of issues including housing stock, protecting the environment for the next generation, solar on new homes, farming and land management, marine protected areas and much more. Thanks to @sccscot.bsky.social for organising a great event

Thank you @lornaslater.bsky.social for coming to meet with constituents today! We covered: 🌻 Nature restoration 🌊 Flood prevention 💰 Funding for community action 🛩 Make polluters pay Please keep pushing for a strong Climate Plan that reduces inequality & improves lives! ##ActNowChangeForever

I'm looking forward to hearing from lots of my constituents this afternoon at the @sccscot.bsky.social mass lobby. Lots of interesting discussions to be had about the climate plan, energy, transport and nature & agriculture.

Great to be at Scotland's Mass Climate Lobby today, with over 500 other concerned constituents! Looking forward to meeting with MSPs including my constituency MSP @colinbeattiemsp.bsky.social #ActNowChangeForever @sccscot.bsky.social @cescotland.bsky.social

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Will this convince the UK Government to stop the flow of weapons components to Israel?

Looking forward to this Mass Climate Lobby! I'll be representing @cescotland.bsky.social at the stalls, and also as a constituent for a meeting with Lothian MSPs. There will be over 500 members of the public there, who all feel strongly about climate action. 🔥⛈️🌲🌊 Hope we get a good MSP turnout!

Brilliant event yesterday on Not-for-Profit heat networks! There is real desire for heating systems run in the public interest. Thanks to @sarahboyack.bsky.social MSP for attending. For more info see my post here: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... @ellengrunewald.bsky.social @edinbric.bsky.social

Very concerning. Regulators protect our environment, for all of us. This prioritises the few, again. Reeves said the Dept for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, now led by former City minister, Emma Reynolds was focused on how to facilitate growth rather than find reasons to say no to development

This would be a game-changing policy. Scotland could progressively transfer all renewables into public ownership by transferring assets at end-of-lease to public energy companies (just like Scotland did with ScotRail). Putting them into community hands would be particularly empowering.

Ask #2 is to use public land to boost community energy. 📈 When new leases are issued for repowering windfarms, community energy companies should have ‘first dibs’. We could meet the target (👇) by transferring 1/3rd of the renewables on public forestry land into community hands. 🎥 bit.ly/4nc2lpD

📣We’ve published our manifesto recommendations for the 2026 Scottish Parliament elections! It’s clear that our energy system isn’t working for ordinary people. Communities must have more influence, ownership and feel more benefit from our energy system. 👀👉 communityenergy.scot/manifesto-fo...

This is fascinating. As Cllr @shona-mcintosh.bsky.social says, like something out of a Dicken's novel. Great that the rent will all go to the Common Good Fund. 💰🏡 www.eastlothiancourier.com/news/2540779...

In Scotland billionaires can get a 100% tax break on their shooting estates, but the poorest are hounded under a council tax debt system four times harsher than England. For my first FMQ as @scottishgreens.org co-leader I asked John Swinney to support Green plans to put that right.

Great to see @michaelshanksmp.co.uk visiting one of our members Callander Community Hydro this past weekend!

Devastating decision! This will harm the marine environment, endangered wild salmon and other coastal jobs, not to mention the salmon which are essentially factory farmed. 😰

Really looking forward to this!

I am sickened by the relentless demonisation of refugees. No refugee underfunded a school. No refugee closed a hospital. No refugee took away support from the sick and disabled. We need solutions not scapegoats. Stop blaming refugees and tax the rich instead!

Really enjoyed the @dtascotland.bsky.social annual conference! It brought home the transformative impact of community projects to improve quality of life. I spoke at a jam-packed session on #communityenergy, with Local Energy Scotland, @democraticfinance.bsky.social and Arran Community Renewables.

Another excellent article by Rebecca Solnit that should cheer and inspire. Hope...is not the same as...willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously headed for early success, but, rather, an ability to work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed."

Community Energy Scotland are hiring a new Policy Manager! communityenergy.scot/news/job-vac... This is a great opportunity for an experienced policy person to lead on a very exciting, topical and busy policy area - which I believe is key to mitigating climate change in a socially just way!

The rest of the UK is finally catching up with Scotland on this. 😜

Scotland is in the throes of a massive expansion of onshore renewables. But the level of community-owned onshore wind is way behind the Scottish Government's own targets. The Power Shift explores how we can maximise this renewables revolution. Read here 🔗 www.scottishbeacon.com/news/communi...

Love Rebecca Solnit, and so glad she's writing about renewables (and ownership). But this is key: "the transition is inevitable – but if we do it fast, we stabilize the climate and limit the destruction, and if we don’t, we don’t." The key to doing it fast is to genuinely involve communities! 🗣

Great to be at the Stand Up to Racism demo in Glasgow today, countering the UKIP march through the city. ✊️ #Reugeesarewelcomehere @standuptoracismuk.bsky.social

And they already have more members than Reform! 👏❤️

This is very exciting! Let's hope it demonstrates that radical redistributive policies are popular as well as needed, and can provide a counter-pull to Reform. How will it relate to the Greens down south I wonder? Sounds like the same priorities, but this will probably get more media attention!

Meanwhile in the USA... Get ready to get sued Donald! #climatejustice

This landmark outcome is the result of a multi-year campaign led by communities on the frontlines of extreme climate impacts. The ICJ affirmed what people all over the world know: high-emitting states can & must be held accountable for the damage they’ve done. It's a good day for climate justice.

🔥 HUGE NEWS FROM THE WORLD'S HIGHEST COURT 🔥 Today the International Court of Justice (ICJ) confirmed that, under international law, countries MUST act now to avoid climate catastrophe. 🧵 @wy4cj.bsky.social

This is one of my pet peeves. And for good reason! It's completely unnecessary and damaging to health and the environment. Thanks @ercscot.bsky.social for taking action on this. 💚

East Lothian Heat want people to have a meaningful say over where their heating comes from, how much it costs, how the profits are used. The feasibility study shows a heat network can deliver: 🔥affordable warmth 🔥local jobs 🔥climate action bit.ly/4nMez9t No heat is wasted, no home is cold. ❤️‍🔥