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 policy-making.

You will hear from researcher and workshop lead Emma Yule, and community participant Luke Fraser who is based in Orkney. They share what they got out of the session, and reflect on their wider ideas of adaptation and resilience in our communities and how the current Scottish Government policy fits into the picture.

The workshop was delivered by SCCAN in partnership with King’s College London, and funded by KCL’s Impact Accelerator.

Credits:

Production, interviews, editing - Kaska Hempel

Resources:

Community Adaptation Routemap - Adaptation Scotland: https://adaptation.scot/take-action/community-climate-adaptation-routemap/

Preparing for climate impacts resources on SCCAN website: https://sccan.scot/climate-adaptation/

Scottish National Adaptation Plan 3 (SNAP3) explainer https://adaptation.scot/about/about-the-scottish-governments-national-adaptation-plan-snap3/

Climate Change Adaptation: A primer with Emma Yule on the Local Zero podcast: https://www.localzeropod.com/episodes/c2z1qopayyftugl6stj9cocguu9vsp

Luke Fraser’s “hats”:

https://www.aquatera.co.uk/

https://northronaldsaytrust.com/

https://www.scottish-islands-federation.co.uk/

Carbon Neutral Islands Project: https://cni.scot/

National Island Plan: https://www.gov.scot/publications/national-plan-scotlands-islands/

UK Met Office analysis of weather in Spring 2025 https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/news-and-media/media-centre/weather-and-climate-news/2025/double-record-breaker-spring-2025-is-warmest-and-sunniest-on-uk-record

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 Fearn Free Food Garden and Emma from the Auchtertyre Community Garden. They discuss the importance of community food projects, which offer a space for learning, a place to gather and grow.

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Resources:

Donate to 1000 Better Stories podcast https://ko-fi.com/1000betterstoriespod

Highland Good Food Podcast (you can also find it on Podbean, Spotify, Apple Podcasts and other major podcasting distribution apps) https://highlandgoodfood.scot/podcast/

Highland Good Food Partnership https://highlandgoodfood.scot/

Fear Free Food Garden https://easterrosspeninsula.com/listings/fearn-free-food-garden/

Planet Sutherland https://planetsutherland.com/

SCCAN membership map https://sccan.scot/about/members/ (Community members involved in growing: https://new.opengreenmap.org/browse/sites?icon=62e6a4a3b8121f0100b0e7fa&map=62e6a19ae0fc1e0100a2a115&search=growing)

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 and ecological breakdown. Host, Ian Grosz, talks with Paperboats co-founders Sandy Winterbottom and Elaine Morrison about the ideas behind the movement and its work so far.

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Resources:

Donate to 1000 Better Stories podcast https://ko-fi.com/1000betterstoriespod

Paperboats collective https://paperboats.org/

Paperboats podcast https://paperboats.org/podcasts/