Highlands and Islands Greens
Green Fair “To Become Annual Event”
— 23 June 2003
Following the success of the Highlands’ first ever Green Fair on Saturday, plans are being drawn up to make the Fair an annual event.
Myra Carus, convener of the Highland Green Party which organised the event, said: “The day was a great success. There were stalls with information on topics from composting to energy saving, and even a bicycle powered by renewable energy; and stalls selling items from organic food to recycled jewellery. There was food and music. Altogether the feedback we have had was so positive that we've decided the Fair should become an annual event.
“We’d like to thank all the stalholders and volunteers who made the event possible, and look forward to the next one in 2010.”
Highlands and Islands Green Party’s task is to communicate, and help achieve, our vision of a green, sustainable society and the benefits such a society has to offer.
In these pages you can find out how Greens in the Highlands and Islands, are going about that task, together with links to the wider Green Party community.
Use the navigation links for:
- more articles and press releases;
- contact details;
- information about the Scottish Green Party, and Green Parties around the World.
Recent Articles:
Scotland’s Road Safety Framework To 2020 — Highland Greens Respond
— 15 June 2009
We welcome the Framework’s publication. Highland Greens will be approaching the Highland Council about developing and implementing a Road Safety Strategy, based on the Government’s Framework, here in the Highlands.
In 2008 Highlands and Islands Greens made a comprehensive response to the Scottish Government’s consultation.
We suggested specific targets, and called for a 20mph speed limit on all residential roads and major shopping streets, and 30mph limit on all other roads in built up areas including villages. In addition, we proposed that a nationwide programme of Homezones should be introduced in residential areas, to enhance the attractiveness of the ‘streetscape’ and to encourage walking and cycling. We said that local authorities should be obliged to require that all new housing developments be built as Homezones.
Vote Green for Europe
— 18 May 2009
Elaine Morrison, top Green
candidate for Europe 09.
Green New Deal
– means investing now in renewables, in home insulation, in public transport and in training to deliver jobs today and the infrastructure for tomorrow. It means rigorous regulation of the banks, not more boom and bust. It means protecting public services against Labour cuts and Tory threats.
Genuine Climate Action
– means ending the distorting subsidies of coal and nuclear power and investing fairly in renewables and in energy efficiency. It means building a zero-waste Europe. It means more trains and trams, not more motorways and runways.
Quality of Life
– means a fairer, safer workplace, better parental leave, a living wage, stronger working time protection and an end to the poverty trap. It means healthy, local food available to all. It means supporting small and community enterprises, promoting local procurement and ending supermarket monopolies. It means protecting green spaces for the health and enjoyment of everyone.
“Hold Your Councillors to Account” Urge Greens
— 7 May 2009
“Hold your elected representatives on Highland Council to account!”
That was the strong message to emerge from the Highland Greens’ lively meeting on 5 May for Community Councils in and around Inverness to discuss the Highland Council’s proposals for the A96 Corridor.
The Greens had arranged the meeting because they considered there had been insufficient opportunities for the public, and Community Councils in particular, to consider the fundamental case for and against developing the A96 corridor.
Residents considered they were being presented with a fait-accompli, and saw little point in taking the time to express their views. The discussion around this issue highlighted the key decision-making role of elected Highland Council Ward Councillors in the planning decision-making process.
Other concerns included the loss of agricultural land along the A96 Corridor, and doubts were expressed about the prospects for new jobs along the Corridor on the scale envisaged by the Highland Council.
The meeting also heard details of the Highland Council’s population projections, including significant falls over the next twenty-five years in numbers of people of working age in Sutherland, Caithness and Lochaber.
In her summary of the meeting, Eleanor Scott, co-convenor of the Scottish Green Party, stressed the importance of voting in forthcoming local and national elections.
