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We want to thank everyone who took part in our A Green Start Competition! A huge congratulations to our three winners, and to to our judges at Transition Stirling and artist Kate Sankey for helping us with the difficult decisions.

Also a thanks to our volunteers who have helped us to spread the word and provide marketing for this competition. It was a lovely way to end our Climate Kitchen Garden project and connect with some great creative climate actions happening in Forth Valley.

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This poem was written for/performed at COP 26, and recorded at my home for social-media sharing purposes 😁

I’d like to make a note here that my poems are written with a specific audience in mind. The climate crisis and its level of severity disproportionately affects various groups (such as communities of color and working class folks). This one is geared towards the upper/middle class who are experiencing the effects of climate change in a very different way than other individuals—in, perhaps, the global south—would be experiencing these issues. This poem is exploring one angle of the way the climate crisis has disrupted our lives, but by no means is it the most important or crucial.

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3rd Place - Eco in the Heid's Climate Story

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3rd Place - Eco in the Heid's Climate Story

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Please see attached the presentation the young people have worked on showcasing some of the amazing work they have been doing as part of their multiple awards work.

The work has also grasped the interest of Education Scotland who are going to visit the group over the coming Easter holidays to talk to them all about their enjoyment of alternative awards.

I feel a quote from our partner organisation TCV, who’s expertise & support has been invaluable, sums up how incredibly versatile & willing the young people have been to take on such a huge piece of work

“All the young people have shown true dedication to the jobs needing done at the allotment, big or small. They have all been brilliant!”   (Emma TCV)

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A Green Start Competition - St Mungos CLD Achieve School - Allotmenteens - 2022 (1)

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Erin Nicol as part of Stirling High Eco Club

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One of the Eco Clubs activities we have is to design a reusable bag cloth bag.   Erin over a period of days, as well as working on it over the weekend came up with not only a beautiful design but also a fantastic slogan   “There is no Planet B”

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Like many Artists, I continually find endless inspiration through nature's, changing seasons, when out walking or making a journey, observing the landscape, animals and plant life and how we relate to our environment.

When making these pieces for Forth Environment Link it was very much the repetitive lines, shapes and contours of the landscape and coastline that I had in mind.
www.folksy.com/shops/Susanwadefrenchceramics

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In this piece I wanted to show the vibrancy and beauty of Stirling, through colour and lighting but I also wanted some funky colours and line art using complementary colours such as, purple and yellow.

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Sophie Spiers as part of a social media campaign

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We now have 7 Seed Libraries in the area!

Members of the community are invited to visit the seed library and take the seeds they’d like to grow in the coming season. They’re free!

We want to encourage as many people as possible to grow the seeds and if possible, to save some seeds from what they have grown.

Not only does it develop strains that suit our growing conditions, it also maintains bio-diversity, saves us money and keeps food production local and secure.

Join our facebook group to connect with local growers in your community and to get help to grow food and save and share seeds and seedlings.

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How to stay warm or save energy in your home, pictures are primary school P3 upwards.

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By our fantastic Forth Environment Link development manager Emily! Too lovely not to display, though not part of the competition.

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How to stay warm or save energy in your home, pictures are primary school P3 upwards.

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How to stay warm or save energy in your home, pictures are primary school P3 upwards.

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Warming by Barry Carter

The moon's fingers rest on ocean floors

with the sun's stethoscope, tattooed clock

on a mermaid's back-ticking irreversible

transfiguration, she whispers fake news

to the ocean about an ark being transported

on an angel's back. A deity's eyes turn to

glass letters from pages fall through cracks,

a planet perspiring doesn't recognise class.

Sphinx for hire is juggling fire-the hands of a

planet reach out of flames-sphinx's tears of gold

slip through fingers.

Last reflection of the sun caught in the dying eyes

of a polar bear reaches history's shivering mirror-

rising tides cannot extinguish a frozen sun, waters

will arrive at the threshold of startled eyes to impart

the cold dread of being nature's prey. Wearing the pelt

of a polar bear the moon hunts for sceptics painting

clouds blue to deny rain is real as believers kneel listening

to a voiceless earth.

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How to stay warm or save energy in your home, pictures are primary school P3 upwards.

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Amanda (Forth Environment Link Volunteer)

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JAN- Plan month. I bought this book “First time veg grower” from the BBC and decided to try my own vegetable and herb garden. My family know me as the plant killer and I have to say indoor plants don

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How to stay warm or save energy in your home, pictures are primary school P3 upwards.

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Part of a social media campaign, Emma has put together a fantastic resource to inspire a week of #Vegan, #PlasticFree meals to #EatGreenOnABudget

Emma has also costed the ingredients and put together a shopping/store cupboard list, so that it is super easy to follow and try yourself.

Homemade chipati's are another staple in their household, since lockdown 2020. Which she reports are #Tasty #CostEffective and #PlasticFree another great tip!

Thanks Emma for your continued efforts in support of #AffordableSustainability

#ClimateKitchenGarden #ClimateChallengeFund #LowCarbonLifestyles #FVNetZeroHeroes

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