Scottish Independence Podcasts

These podcasts are from the first of our Climate Emergency Series of Interviews on the IndyLive Morning Show. Robin McAlpine, director of Commonweal, talks to us about their Our Common Home Plan - a Green Deal for Scotland.
 
Part 1:
The climate emergency is the background to this and how we can adapt and mitigate its likely effects in Scotland and also take responsibility for our environmental impact elsewhere in the world.
 
Robin talks about the understandable ecological grief that climate campaigners and researchers experience but also describes how engaging with how we can fix it has turned that emotionally around for him.
 
We talk about how the plan came about and who has been involved. One of Robin’s main emphases is that what we do to fulfil the plan needs done well. We can’t just do it piecemeal. We need Clyde-Built standards again.
 
We get into a bit reminiscing about improvements in washing machines over the past 50 years. Robin can remember twin tubs but Val and Marlene can remember helping our grannies with her mangle. But the point is that there is no such thing as waste, just bad use of resources. We become accustomed to built-in obsolescence and that needs to end.

The first clacks WFI podcast of 2020 coming from the Boulders and Blethers event and of course, we were at the Ceilidh under the Bridge!!

Join us for our Christmas special episode with carols and Dr Tim Rideout talk on the Scottish Currency