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Scottish Green List directory

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Colin  Paton

 Calder Cabs
Colin is proving that the taxi business can stay profitable when adopting green practices. His taxi/private hire car company Calder Cabs in West Lothian is in the…

David  Somervell

 The University of Edinburgh
David was the inspiration and driving force behind setting up Transition Edinburgh University, championing Transition and 10:10 as ways to move the University community…

Douglas McIntosh and  Graeme Condie

 NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde
In three years Douglas and Graeme have changed how people travel within NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde. They have introduced car sharing, the most successful cycle…

Dr Branka  Dimitrijevic

 CIC Start Online
Branka’s work has significantly raised the awareness of environmental, social and economic issues in developing a sustainable built environment. She has increased…

Dr Sian  George

Aquamarine Power
Sian has changed the perception of marine energy from being an interesting academic concept to an essential part of the mainstream renewable energy mix. In her role…

Gavin  King-Smith

 Micro-Hydro Association
Having installed a micro-hydro scheme, Gavin has identified more than 50 potential schemes locally and supported many who have installed, or are in the process of…

George  Niblock

 'adopt a street' litter clearance scheme
George has established and manages a community based 'adopt a street' litter clearance scheme which has enlisted over 400 individuals and community group volunteers…

Glen  Bennett

 EAE Ltd
A 'life-long' passion for all things 'green' has fed Glen's desire to make his company EAE Ltd Scotland's greenest leaflet distribution service. The company will…

Henk  Verweijmeren

 Invisible heating System
Henk is turning roads into giant solar panels to heat buildings through his company Invisible heating System in Ullapool. The technique uses the solar energy generated…

Iain  Clyne

 The Real Project
Iain has stepped out of mainstream education with a vision to champion locally produced food by setting up a food based social enterprise within the school grounds…

Jack  Marshall

 Tapside
Jack is rethinking how service engineers handle simple breakdown maintenance, incorporating energy saving technology in an imaginative way. Many simple repair jobs…

Jennifer Calder and  Darren Wilson

 The Glasgow Guerrilla Gardeners
The Glasgow Guerrilla Gardeners work under the cover of darkness to grow vegetables and flowers on otherwise unused plots of land in the heart of Glasgow. The group's…

Joe Frankel and  Dominic Marjoram

 Vegware
Joe and Dominic have set up Vegware, the UK’s first company producing and distributing compostable food-packaging. The products are all made from plants and can…

Kerr  MacGregor

 Volunteer
Kerr is doing pioneering work taking solar energy into schools with a van equipped with renewable energy equipment. As an unpaid volunteer he gets the renewable…

Marjorie and Tom  Nelson

 Mull Slaughterhouse
Marjorie and Tom are at the heart of re-localising Mull food. As the chair of the committee running the Mull Slaughterhouse Tom has been in the driving seat in developing…

Mike  Park

 Scottish White Fish Producers Association
As chair of the Scottish White Fish Producers Association Mike is tackling sustainability issues like stock depletions and discards in a very traditional industry.…

Mike  Farrell

 Letham Nights
Through the project Letham Nights Mike aims to bring high quality music to Letham and provide a stage for local talent. All with the aim to fund a zero carbon village…

P6 Class Business at  Borestone Primary

Borestone Energy Consultancy
This P6 Class Business at Borestone Primary is making a difference by reducing the carbon footprint of local businesses and their school. The class of ten year olds…

Rehema  White

 University of St Andrews
Rehema is co-ordinator of the innovative undergraduate interdisciplinary sustainable development degree programme at the University of St Andrews. She has developed…

Steve  Johnson

 Lothian Buses
Steve is passionate about changing the practices of Lothian Buses, part of a traditionally high polluting sector, into a positive sustainable travel option for all.…

Abbie  Marland

 Campaigner
It's not often that environmentalists win the argument over global oil corporations. Abbie Marland did just that by tirelessly campaigning against the plan for ship-to-ship…

Adam  Watson

 campaigner and researcher
Adam Watson may know more about snow than any other person in Scotland, and has done more to increase the understanding of mountain habitats than most. As a life…

Alastair  McIntosh

 Centre for Human Ecology
Scottish writer and activist, writer of many works including Soil and Soul: People Versus Corporate Power. Alastair has been influential through his writing and…

Allan  Thomson

 wave energy
A pioneer of wave energy since the 1980s, Inverness-based Thomson has been responsible for the development of two wave devices - the Wavegen Limpet and the Aquamarine…

Andy  Wightman

 Author of Who owns Scotland
Writer, researcher and analyst specialising in land reform, land tenure and landownership. Author of Who owns Scotland. Over many years Andy has campaigned tirelessly…

Andy  Goldsworthy

 Land artist
Andy is internationally recognised and celebrated as a leading exponent of land art. A former farm hand now living in the Borders, Andy works around the world using…

Barry  Sinclair

 Fair Isles
Barry would not consider himself a green champion. He was just someone doing something that was needed for the island. The result is that Fair Isles was a renewable…

Bill  Ritchie

 Assynt
When it was first proposed, the original land buyout for Assynt was seen as a lunatic idea by many. But through its success, this pioneering scheme has opened the…

Brendan  Dick

 BT Scotland
As well as leading BT Scotland’s own climate change programmes, Brendan has spent the past year, in his role as the Prince’s CSR Ambassador in Scotland, championing…

Clare  Symonds

 National Planning Framework
Clare has done some pioneering work to improve the consultation process in the planning system and raised it up the political and media agenda. Her work on the National…

Dave  du Feu

 Spokes
Dave is the engine behind Spokes, the longstanding and effective Edinburgh cycle campaign. Through its publications and active campaigning and engagement with the…

Dave Morris and  John Mackay

 Scottish Natural Heritage
The key architects behind the access legislation that made the right to roam a reality across most of Scotland, and for the first time opened up the Scottish countryside…

David  van Alstyne

 Edrington's Glenturret distillery
David is pioneering the use of algae to turn waste products from Scottish distilleries into useful fuel either for electricity, heat or transport. Use of algae has…

David  Cameron

 North Harris Trust
David Cameron was not going to sit back and watch his local community's population dwindle and businesses die. Thanks to the efforts of David and the North Harris…

Duncan  McLaren

 Friends of the Earth Scotland
As Chief Executive of Friends of the Earth Scotland (FoES) since 2003, Duncan McLaren has been a powerful and inspiring voice for the environmental movement, tirelessly…

Elaine  Sheerin

 South side of Glasgow, Community
Elaine has got people walking in their own communities in the South side of Glasgow, improving health, fostering the community spirit and reclaiming the streets…

Eva  Schonveld

 Transition Scotland
Eva is transforming Scotland, one community at a time. The global Transition Town movement works to make communities less threatened by peak oil and climate change,…

Fatima  Uygun

 Govanhill Bath Communities Trust
Fatima is the Director of Govanhill Bath Communities Trust, which has campaigned relentlessly for the reopening of the local swimming pool as an important community…

Frances  McCartney

 Environmental Law Centre Scotland
Frances McCartney founded the Environmental Law Centre Scotland, a not for profit law centre providing community groups, ngos and the voluntary sector advice and…

Howard  Wood

 COAST (Community of Arran Seabed Trust)
As a recreational diver Howard Wood was used to swimming through shoals of fish or small scallops, but when his son started diving in 2003, it was six months before…

Howard Liddell

 Sustainable architecture
For the last 40 or so years, Howard has supported and delivered sustainable architecture throughout Scotland and internationally. He is hugely respected for his…

Hugh  Raven

 Soil Association
Hugh is a passionate advocate of sustainable development in his work managing his family estate in Morvern, in his role as Director of the Soil Association, as an…

Ian  Marchant

 Scottish and Southern Energy
When Ian Marchant took over Scottish and Southern Energy in 2002, he was hailed Ian as the FTSE 100's youngest boss, and he has proved to be very different from…

Jan  Bebbington

 Sustainable Development Commission
Enticed to Scotland by a university colleague, Jan has been at the forefront of research and advocacy on accountancy and sustainable development. Her work using…

Jeremy  Sainsbury

 Natural Power
As Director of Dumfriesshire based Natural Power, Jeremy has been part of a small management team that has grown the business from having 6 staff ten years ago to…

John  Hancox

 Children's Orchard
John Hancox runs the Children's Orchard, planting apple trees around Scotland with schoolchildren. It all began when he was a journalist and couldn't get a satisfactory…

John  Ferguson

 Binn Eco Park
As a champion of practical sustainable waste solutions, John has been very influential in national waste policy discussions and action to improve recycling and better…

Karen and Mike Small

 The Fife Diet
Mike and Karen's idea is so small and so revolutionary - eat local food. It all started as experiment challenging people to only eat food from Fife for a year. The…

Kathleen  Jamie

 Poet
Award winning poet who writes about the relationship with the natural world. Kathleen's gift is to be able to evoke the specialness of the environment around us,…

Lubna  Kerr

 Wellbeing, Health and You
Lubna runs Wellbeing, Health and You, mixing alternative therapies and traditional medicine for housing association staff, focussing on lifestyle changes and self…


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