There’s benefit in being a not-for-profit, Aythan Lewes
IN professional consultancy in construction, profit often takes precedence over purpose. However, at EALA Impacts community interest company (CIC), we have taken a different approach:…
Tag: Opinion
Giving a day for one’s community, Mike Wilson
THE LOGIC of turning this idea into a nationwide phenomenon requires the relatively modest start of a single community offering itself as a pilot project.…
Retrofitting our economic approach in a time of climate emergency, Sarah Longlands
NEWS this week (here) from the Climate Change Committee – the independent, statutory body established under the Climate Change Act 2008 – that the UK…
Do we really have the leadership skills to progress the ‘place-based agenda’?, Phil Prentice
place noun 1. a particular position, point, or area in space; a location HOME is across the sea – in Armagh, Northern Ireland – and I…
Creative placemaking – necessary, not just nice to have, Matt Baker
I WANT to start by saying something about creativity, in general. When I use using the word, ‘creativity’, I’m meaning a way of working that…
Scottish can-do approach to Passivhaus, Sarah Lewis
AT the start of this year, Scottish Government minister, Patrick Harvie, announced to parliament plans (here) to “introduce new minimum environmental design standards for all new-build…
The challenges and opportunities of ‘greening’ vacant and derelict land, Mike Batley
IT sounds seductively easy, instituting a nationwide programme that seeks to convert each and every plot of vacant and derelict land into a nature reserve.…
Step by step, brick by brick, we’re getting there, Jane Meagher
Jane Meagher is Scottish Labour councillor for Portobello / Craigmillar in Edinburgh, and convener of the city council’s Housing, Homelessness and Fair Work committee. She…
Coworking to build community, Claire Carpenter
WEDNESDAY was an auspicious day for people in my line of work. It was the first European Coworking Day – here – and it couldn’t…
Time for a national institution to take the lead in placemaking?, Prof Stuart Gulliver
THERE’S a reasonable case to be made that, in Scotland, we have undergone two ‘built environment’ revolutions since the Second World War. The first, immediately…