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Green MSP congratulates Shettleston growers
Glasgow Regional MSP Patrick Harvie today congratulated an East End project on its successful bid for funding from the Climate Challenge Fund. Shettleston Community Growing Project will receive nearly £172,800 for a resident-led initiative to grow food locally and raise awareness of food miles, food waste, recycling and energy consumption. This funding is part of the latest round of Climate Challenge Fund money to be awarded, and £5.5m was awarded today to communities across Scotland.
Greens call for Council funding to be directed towards urgent repairs
Green Councillors are proposing the Council's new road building programme in the East End is cancelled and funding is redirected to provide resources to carry out essential repairs and maintenance of footpaths, pavements, roads, cycleways, schools and cultural venues across the city.
Greens fights to save community centre from closure
Dr Nina Baker, Green councillor for Anderston/City ward, is battling to save the last community centre in her ward. Overnewton Community Centre, now 30 years old and feeling its age, is slated to be shut under funding cuts proposed by the Labour Party at this week's crisis budget meeting.
Greens support calls for a review of requirements made of amateur sports coaches
Greens support to a petition to the Scottish Parliament asking for a review of vetting schemes for public sport facilities to make it easier for people to volunteer.
Wave demonstration "A call for visionary leadership"
Greens from across Scotland attended the Wave Scotland demonstration, organised by Stop Climate Chaos Scotland to show support for tough and legally binding emissions targets at next week's Copenhagen climate summit.
Patrick Harvie wins best politician at Green Energy Awards
Patrick Harvie MSP was named Best Politician at the 8th annual Scottish Renewables Green Energy Awards, held in Edinburgh's Assembly Rooms on 3rd December. (1) Previous winners have included First Minister Alex Salmond, former Deputy First Minister Nicol Stephen, and, in 2002, Green MSP Robin Harper.
Community Group wins Beautiful Scotland Neighbourhood Award for transforming derelict land into an inspiring green space
On the first anniversary of its formation, the North Kelvin Meadow Campaign (1) has been awarded a Certificate of Merit as part of Beautiful Scotland's Neighbourhood Awards. Karen Chung, Treasurer of the North Kelvin Meadow Campaign, collected the award today at a ceremony in Motherwell Concert Hall.
North Kelvin: Green MSP to help install bat boxes and defy GCC
Patrick Harvie MSP will tomorrow join local residents in Maryhill to put up ten bat boxes at the North Kelvin Meadow, a community-run green space on the site of the former Clouston Street Playing Fields. In August, Glasgow City Council went to court to try and evict the local community from the North Kelvin Meadow.
BNP and Glasgow North East by-election: Greens to report 'unbalanced' BBC
Today's much-publicised appearance by BNP leader Nick Griffin on Question Time will be aired during the election campaign for Glasgow North East, and the Scottish Green Party will formally report the BBC to Ofcom for a clear breach of the Ofcom Code. The Code requires additional care to be given to the issues of fairness and political balance during election times.(1)
Greens launch North East campaign
The Scottish Green Party have launched their campaign in the Glasgow North-East by-election.
Greens seek effective progress on tackling air pollution
Glasgow City Council has published its air quality action plan which outlines a series of measures to ensure that the city reduces levels of pollutants.
SNP to cut public transport in Glasgow
Today's draft Budget contains proposals to scrap the Glasgow Airport Rail Link (GARL), a scheme which Greens supported when MSPs voted for it in 2006. Despite the name, the project would actually have provided substantial improvements in public transport in the West of Scotland, including boosting the connection between Glasgow and Paisley. SNP Ministers instead plan to fund Fastlink, a bus service designed to connect the Southern General Hospital and the Commonwealth Games site.
Local residents and MSPs stunned by Glasgow City Council's threat to bulldoze community gardening project
Local residents and MSPs have reacted with disbelief to news that Glasgow City Council is threatening to bulldoze the North Kelvin Meadow, a green space created by a local community group on unsightly derelict land neglected by the Council for over a decade.
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