Clackmannanshire Green Map Initiative

On Friday June 5th, World Environment Day, Clackmannanshire celebrated along with 15 other countries around the world the global launch of the Open Green Map. At a presentation at Alva Parklands, now equipped with wireless broadband especially for the occasion, the Clackmannanshire Green Map Initiative joined with the Ochils Landscape Partnership and BBC Breathing Places to celebrate their respective projects. You can view the Open Green Map on this website, make a comment or even 'Suggest your own Green Sites' around Clackmannanshire.

CGMI

CGMI and the Sustainable Clackmannanshire programme is about the development of strong, active communities in which local people within a geographical area are able to come together and have the capacity to do things for themselves. They can define the challenges they face and tackle them either independently or, if they choose, in partnership with others.

The publication of a comprehensive map of Clackmannanshire will encourage residents to visit and take part in more events across the county. Improving particpation, health and well-being and retaining more of local residents spend within the county.

Tullibody Healthy Living Initiative

The Learning for Living project joined in with the 2nd anniversary of the Tullibody Healthy Living Initiative. We took the opportunity to offer a green map making session at the Anniversary celebration at St Serfs Church Hall on the 2nd February. Participants added information to the map and also filled in postcards with items of interest or concern in and around Tullibody. Read more

Where do Green Maps come from?

Green Maps were first started in1992 in New York. Since then there have been 500 green map projects started around the world.

“If you get right down to it, sustainability is really the study of the interconnectedness of all things.”

Barbara Lither

Since 1995, Green Map System (GMS) has helped connect towns and cities to a global movement, children to their communities, governments to environmental issues, people to businesses and services and solutions to problems. The basic goal of GMS is to make community development more sustainable through inclusive participation. With the help of GMS’s resources and guidance, it’s up to the local Green Mapmakers to focus that participation on key issues and sites in their communities. Your Green Map will help everyone act locally for a healthier, greener future.

www.greenmap.org

What is a Green Map?

Green Maps are locally created maps of community strengths, mapping the things that make life worthwhile.

“If you get right down to it, sustainability is really the study of the interconnectedness of all things.”

Barbara Lither

BBC Breathing Place Delph Pond

Tullibody is Clackmannanshire's latest BBC Breathing Place. Read more

Walking on Wheels

Friday 10th October the 'Walking on Wheels' group from the Whins Resource Centre set off for Inglewood Pond. The group is starting on its John Muir Discovery Award and had a wonderful time collecting and identifying autumn leaves. Inglewood pond is situated on the right hand side of the Tullibody Road, heading out of Alloa, close to Inglewood House

Learning for Living

Learning for Living is an exciting project which has received European funding through LEADER. We are working with the innovative Open Green Map which creates a living portrait of community as mapped by local people. By charting all the local resources using the unique mapping language created by Green Map Systems it becomes possible to get a complete picture of Clackmannasnhire as seen by the people who live here.

Clackmannanshire Conservation Action Team

The Clackmannanshire Conservation Action Team or CCAT for short was started in response to the desire of local people to get involved in environmental projects. For CAT activities please check out the Events section of this website. If you would like to become a CAT volunteer please contact Enid at CVS Clackmannanshire - Enid.trevett@cvsclacks.org.uk

Past Reflections - Future Directions

Between September 22nd and the 26th the Community Compass project, based at the East Vennel in Alloa, were joined by Clackmannanshire Council who consulted on the Sustainability and Climate Change Strategy. There was an opportunity to discuss sustainability, biodiversity, outdoor access and planning. Read more

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Learning for Living

Tullibody Healthy Living Initiative The Learning for Living project joined in with the 2nd anniversary of the Tullibody Healthy Living Initiative. We took the opportunity to offer a green map making session at the Anniversary celebration at St Serfs Church Hall on the 2nd February. Participants added information to the map and also filled in postcards with items of interest or concern in and around Tullibody.

Community Planning

What is Community Planning

The Community Planning process acts as a framework for making public services more responsive to, and organised around, the needs of communities.

The two main aims of Community Planning can be described as:

Making sure people and communities are genuinely engaged in decisions, which affect them; allied to

A commitment from organisations to work together, not apart, in providing better public services

Community Planning is not a new concept, but has recently taken on much greater significance with the passing of the Local Government in Scotland Act of 2003.

Community Planning

CCAT

Clackmannanshire Conservation Action Team

BBC Breathing Place Delph Pond

Compass

Past Reflections - Future Directions Between September 22nd and the 26th the Community Compass project, based at the East Vennel in Alloa, were joined by Clackmannanshire Council who consulted on the Sustainability and Climate Change Strategy. There was an opportunity to discuss sustainability, biodiversity, outdoor access and planning.

BBC County of Action

Do One Thing for Nature Since becoming a BBC Breathing Places partner we have been carrying out a series of 'Do One Thing for Nature' events with our member groups.