Glasgow community activism news

• Taiwan Film Festival in Scotland—"connecting inward truths with outward visions, creating a vibrant shared space for reflection and inspiration”, Daily Alternative (Oct 21, 2025)
• Glasgow’s Citizens Theatre reopens: what its seven-year transformation reveals about the future of historic venues, theconversation.com (Aug 22, 2025)
• Glasgow Student Housing Cooperative Opens!, glasgowstudenthousingcoop.org (Jul 25, 2025) — "We refuse to believe that enduring housing horror stories should be an accepted part of student life. Cooperatives are our alternatives, which teach skills for the future to build just and sustainable alternative economies." May Armstrong, Glasgow Student Housing Cooperative
• Glasgow Seed Library is a collection of seeds and a community of growers [CCA], Daily Alternative (May 13, 2025)
• How growing and foraging food can become a common part of cities, theconversation.com (Apr 24, 2025)

• A community food supply, wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk (Aug 14, 2024) — Urban farms are bypassing supermarkets to create their own local food systems and connect communities. Robbie Armstrong reports
• There is a rage for urban swimming in Europe right now - in the Seine for the French Olympics, but in Copenhagen, Glasgow and London too, Daily Alternative (Jul 17, 2024)

• "Is that a doughnut or a meringue?" No, you were right the first time... Doughnut Economics makes its arrival in Glasgow, The Daily Alternative (Nov 26, 2023)
• A community food supply, wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk (Jul 31, 2023) — Urban farms are bypassing supermarkets to create their own local food systems and connect communities. Robbie Armstrong

• Glasgow’s Urban Transport Revolution, bellacaledonia.org.uk (Nov 11, 2022)
• How to capture satellite images in your backyard – and contribute to a snapshot of the climate crisis, The Conversation (Feb 23, 2022)

Locavore, and Glasgow Community Energy, show off the city's appetite for green businesses, under a global spotlight, Nov 6, 2021...^[1]

• A note to #COP26 delegates in Glasgow: make sure you visit Govan's Centre for Human Ecology, radically eco since 1972, Oct 22, 2021...^[2]
• The repair shop trying to fix throwaway culture, Jul 26, 2021...^[3]
• In Glasgow's Maryhill area, locals demand an eco-housing and sustainable energy development. Will the Council listen? Jan 23, 2021...^[4]
• Scots area sets own currency with 'Govanhill Pound', September 24, 2015...^[5]
• Glasgow becomes first university in Europe to divest from fossil fuels, October 8, 2014...^[6]
• Bike-hire scheme to be launched across Glasgow in May, March 18, 2014...^[7]

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