1000 Better Stories

1000 Better Stories

Scottish Communities Climate Action Network

Episodes 85
Avg. Duration 33m
Activity Highly Active
Since Sep 2020
Latest Episode Apr 2026

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Monthly
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Consistency
77%
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About This Podcast

A Scottish Communities Climate Action Network Podcast sharing stories of community led climate action in Scotland to help us all imagine a better future.

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Recent Episodes

Protest Magic

Apr 15, 2026 14m

This vignette explores the magic of people from all walks of life coming together in a protest for a cause, demanding a better future for their communities. It was recorded on 25 October 2025, the…

Sharing, Reuse & Repair (Crossover Transition St Andrews)

Feb 23, 2026 26m

In this crossover, we share a standalone podcast episode from Transition St Andrews about their reuse and repair initiative. You will hear about the programme’s projects and activities and its…

A Journey of a Bike Time: Episode 1 (Crossover CycleHub Stories podcast)

Jan 19, 2026 19m

In this crossover, we share an episode of the CycleHub Stories podcast A Journey of a Bike Time. Cycle Hub.Org director Scott Francis talks about why the organisation was formed. We meet David, who…

Pianodrome (CROSSOVER ECCAN's Climate Jam podcast)

Oct 13, 2025 25m

In this crossover, we share an episode of Edinburgh Communities Climate Action Network’s new podcast series Climate Jam. Host Eirini talks to Pianodrome’s co-founder Tim Vincent-Smith about the story…

Narrative change workshop: Co-creating adaptation targets with communities

Jul 31, 2025 53m

In this episode, Kaska Hempel explores the ideas behind the Narrating Change workshop - a creative experiment in using storytelling to bring community voices into climate adaptation…

Community Food (CROSSOVER The Highland Good Food Podcast)

Mar 25, 2025 31m

In this cross over we share a 2022 episode of The Highland Good Food Podcast, published by Highlands Good Food Network. Host, Laura Dorantt, speaks to Anna from Planet Sutherland, Mairi from the…

We Will Rise, with Sandy Winterbottom and Elaine Morrison (Paperboats CROSSOVER))

Feb 10, 2025 42m

In this cross over we share the first episode of the Paperboats podcast, associated with the Paperboats collective of Scotland-based writers focussed on nature and environment in a time of climate…

An urban journey to community ownership - Greener Kirkcaldy at Fergus place

Dec 09, 2024 47m

2024 marked the five-year anniversary of Greener Kirckaldy's ownership of their community building and 100 years of the community land ownership movement in Scotland. This is a story of this…

Art Moves Fife - collaborative artwork connected to place

Nov 27, 2024 33m

Our Story Weaver, Kaska Hempel, talks to the creative duo behind Art Moves Fife, Gillian McFarland and Kate Downes, about slow movement through landscape as a means to mobilise creative response to…

Everyday Changemakers: Marie-Anne Brown, Magpie

Nov 21, 2024 29m

Our Story Weaver, Kaska Hempel, speaks with Marie-Anne Brown, a manager at Magpie in Banchory, about embracing a circular economy lifestyle, balancing social and climate responsibilities, and…

CampusCast CROSSOVER: Climate Adaptation at new Fife College Campus

Oct 28, 2024 42m

We continue on our theme of climate change fuelled flooding and how we are adapting to it in Scotland. In the last two episodes we touched on responses from creative organisations and farming. Today…

Farming and water - panel discussion, GO Falkland

Oct 21, 2024 1h 4m

In this episode, we share a recording of a panel discussion on Farming and Water held at the Groundswell Outreach regenerative farming meet up at the Falkland estate in Fife, last July. The session…

Everyday Changemakers - Simone Stewart

Oct 16, 2024 43m

Our Story Weaver, Kaska, talks to Everyday Changemaker Simone Stewart at the Barn’s “Plenty?” Festival in Banchory last October. They discuss degrowth and snails, storm Frank’s influence on the…

Harbour Voices CROSS OVER: Hans Unkles and his all electric lobster boat

Sep 30, 2024 43m

In this cross over episode from Harbour Voices podcast by Open Road, we hear a story of Hans Unkles' all electric lobster boat. This is first episode in Harbour Voices Festival of the Sea series…

BONUS - Matthew Clubb on Torry Retrofit

Sep 16, 2024 33m

Retrofit coordinator, Matthew Clubb, talks through benefits and options of the retrofit project for Torry in Aberdeen. This is a recording of a talk from GO Torry! event in June 2024. Credits…

GO Torry - growing resilience one year after peoples' assembly

Sep 02, 2024 49m

Our Story Weaver, Kaska, revisits Torry in Aberdeen for a GO Torry event, celebrating community's growing resilience in the wake of People's Assembly and its Declaration last Spring. We hear of RAAC…

Everyday Changemakers - Gareth Allenby, YMCA Glenrothes

Aug 12, 2024 29m

Our Story Weaver, Kaska Hempel, talks to Gareth Allenby from YMCA Glenrothes about weaving climate action into life journeys of young people experiencing homelessness and the joys of judging coleslaw…

STUMPED at the Fringe - stories, trees and collective action

Jul 29, 2024 29m

In this Edinburgh Fringe special, Kaska speaks to Lewis Coenen-Rowe about the trees and myths that inspired his deforestation opera STUMPED, becoming an artist activist, and about the importance of…

Year one of Fife Climate Hub - deepening the network for action

Jul 03, 2024 1h 8m

Kaska Hempel reports from the Fife Climate Hub gathering in celebration of their first year. We hear how they have built on longstanding partnerships, welcomed new faces and the critical importance…

Everyday Changemakers: Rebecca Gibbs, SCCAN

May 28, 2024 24m

Our Story Weaver, Kaska Hempel, talks to Rebecca Gibbs from SCCAN about rollerblading for sanity, turning NET zero into NOT zero and the invitation to get into climate adaptation planning with…

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