People from Blackburn feature in a brand-new film which premiered at the Climate Action Towns Gathering event recently.
The new film, by filmmaker Bircan Birol, captures the work across nine climate action towns.
It portrays the various challenges and opportunities for towns tackling the climate emergency from a community perspective. Evie, Aiste, Ellie and Sadie, pupils in the Change in Blackburn Committee feature and talk about their work as part of Architecture and Design Scotland’s Climate Action Towns project.
Architecture and Design Scotland, Scotland’s design agency, leads the Climate Action Towns project. On 12 May it hosted The Climate Action Towns Gathering which brings together people from across the country to celebrate achievements and exchange ideas on how to take community action on the climate emergency.
Architecture and Design Scotland’s Laura Hainey, who leads the work on Climate Action Towns, said “The Gathering gives us an opportunity to bring together participants from across the nine Climate Action Towns to network, collaborate and learn from each other.
“In our work we have taken a place-based approach, mapping the potential for climate action against our eight Principles of a Carbon Conscious Place – which include a place designed for and with local people, a place of small distances and a place that reuses, repurposes, considering whole-life costs. Exploring what climate action could be like in the various towns we have also connected with existing initiatives in places that can be built on or learned from. Some examples of these are from Campbeltown, Annan and Holytown and were featured in the afternoon session.”
The film is available to view here
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