Making the Living Windows
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Category: Education and community
Springfling at Palacerigg Country Park
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Feeling sheepish after all that chocolate?, Looking for something to do this Easter Monday?
Join us at the Springfling at Palacerigg Country Park
Monday 28th March
12pm - 4pm
Read on to find out more
Action Earth Grants Available
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The Action Earth 2016 Grant Programme is now taking applications from groups of volunteers preparing to work on environmental and biodiversity projects from April 2016 onwards.
Rare sighting of Nacreous clouds
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A sighting of rare nacreous clouds (wave clouds) over the skies of Cumbernauld this morning. The official term for them is Polar Stratospheric Clouds and they are rare in the Arctic due to the low temperatures needed to form them -85degrees C !!!
Looking for funding?
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Looking for funding towards environmental improvements in your local area?
Greggs are distributing the money raised through the carrier bag tax to small groups and school who wish to improve their local environment.
You can find out more here - https://www.greggsfoundation.org.uk/large-environmental-grants
Grants range from £2500 to £10,000 and all projects must benefit the environment.
A different climate
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From the sun drenched woodlands in Tenerife to the snow covered trees of home, it was good to be back!
With the office quiet over Christmas, I decided to take off to a warm and sunny island in the Atlantic for a wee holiday. Whilst it was a bit of a shock to come home to snow, the beautiful crisp countryside and a chance sighting of a deer at the back of my fence made me glad to be back – I had missed Scotland’s wildlife!
Jobs fayre in Cumbernauld
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Sanctuary Housing is hosting a Jobs Fayre in Fleming House (ground floor) on the 28th of January from 11am - 3pm. You can find out more about the fayre on our Facebook Events page.
Natural Connections – Learning from others
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Lochinver preschooler's identifying their next scavenger hunt item
Last week, we had a visit to our sister programme Coigach and Assynth Living Landscape based in Lochinver, Sutherland. The Coigach and Assynt Living Landscape project covers a vast area of mainly small townships and crofts with a population of 1200, a huge comparison to the Cumbernauld Living Landscape which covers a much smaller area but a larger population of 55,000 plus.
Natural Connections – To sleep or not to sleep…
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© Amy Lewis
Unless you have been away on holiday or snuggled up in your home for quite a while you will have noticed the drop in temperature in the last month. This dip in temperature change triggers survival mechanisms for some of our wildlife in Cumbernauld such as hedgehogs, badgers, squirrels, pine martens, bats and other small rodents. There are a few mechanisms but for now we talk about two, torpor and hibernation which are vital for these animals to survive the winter.
Natural Connections – Natural Capital in Cumbernauld
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Heather pollination
I attended The Wildlife Trust’s Conservation in the 21st Century event last week in Edinburgh to discover how we can implement ‘natural capital’ approaches in Scotland. What is it, I hear you say? Well…natural capital values our environment by looking at the services we derive from nature. A great example of this is pollination from wild bees, butterflies and hoverflies. They estimate this ‘free’ service is worth a whopping £43million to the Scottish economy. It is becoming increasingly necessary to assign a value to a natural asset in order to protect it for all of us and to show businesses the need for them to become more environmentally friendly and sustainable for their long term survival too.