Are We Switching On?

This report published in June 2009 surveys Scottish climate education projects building community action to tackle climate change - and highlights the different kinds of support needed by communities who want to take action.

Including the work being done in eco schools in Scotland, it identifies and profiles a range of projects which empower people to take action to tackle climate change in their own lives and communities, rather than those which simply give information without an action-based focus.

The publication of the report coincides with the promotion of SEAD's new 130-page online resource for community action which includes a Climate Action Hub with information and links to an array of resources and organisations to help community groups to be as effective as possible in developing their approach to climate change. It also has a Community Action Toolkit with information on everything from community involvement, getting funding and choosing the best approach to achieve their goals. To help groups develop their ideas it has case studies from active communities all over Scotland, the UK and the rest of the world.