BY: JESSICA BEUKER In an environmentally-friendly move by Scotland’s Government, the country is looking to ban, both the manufacture and sale of, plastic-stemmed cotton swabs. The move would make them the first country in the U.K. to do so. The…
Meet the man who is walking 9,500 miles along the coastlines of 25 magnificent islands
It’s a journey of over 20 million footsteps round the coastlines of over 25 islands. Alex Ellis-Roswell started walking around the coastlines of England, Wales, Scotland, Isle of Man, Ireland and many of the surrounding islands on August 3, 2014.…
Is it possible to power a country purely on renewable energy?
Scotland is a small country in the north of Europe with dreams of generating 100% of its gross annual electricity consumption from renewable energy by 2020. It may seem like an impossible ambition for any country to provide electricity in this…
Here is what a modern Scottish island powered almost entirely by renewable energy looks like
BY: MATTHEW CHIN On the western coast of northern Scotland, just 16 kilometres away from the mainland, lies Eigg Island, an island that runs almost entirely on renewable resources. The nine kilometres long and five kilometres wide island was bought…