Bagpipes on the Royal Mile
One of my favorite YouTube videos is of a pipe band marching down the Royal Mile in Edinburgh. Unfortunately, I think that the video has been removed because YouTube thought that it violated copyrights even though all the music played is centuries old. But not I have my own video! It's not nearly as long, but I like it and hope that you do too.
The video was taken September 14, 2025 and the event was part of the Edinburgh Riding of the Marches, which originated in the 16th century as a vital inspection of the city’s boundaries and has become a public event that attracts thousands of spectators as it “celebrates civic pride, heritage and horsemanship”.
You'll catch a glimpse Ellen too! Here is the video:
PipesOnRoyalMile
St Pancras Piano
We take the train into London every Sunday for church, and walk through the London St Pancras station. It’s a big place, and there are two pianos in it available for anyone to sit down and play. And people do - more often than not someone is playing a piano. And the pianists are usually pretty good. Here’s a guy we saw on a recent Sunday:
Piano in London St Pancras
Green Shores is honoured to be finalists for the Nature of Scotland Awards in two categories, Coasts & Waters and Nature & Climate Action, after a wonderful reception at the Scottish Parliament!
We are very grateful to #NatureScot, the University of St Andrews, the Royal Dornoch Golf Club, #ArmyInScotland, St Andrews Links Trust, Fife Council, and to all our amazing volunteers. Our work wouldn’t be the same without your support!
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What can music, forests, and faith communities teach us about climate action?
🎶 Good news - Musician Jon Batiste, whose own life was shaped by Hurricane Katrina, is using his music to inspire climate action. His new album Big Money and climate song Petrichor remind us that solutions exist, and that change can be joyful.
🌳 Not so good news - A new study finds that tropical deforestation causes nearly 3,000 deaths each year by amplifying local warming across tropical regions. Once again, vulnerable communities bear the greatest burden.
✨ What you can do - Join Sun Day (Sept 19–21), a faith-led movement by GreenFaith supporting climate action and clean energy. Whether attending, hosting, or sharing resources, you can add your voice to the growing call for climate justice.
When it comes to climate action, each voice matters, and each action multiplies. Working together is how we can build the momentum for change.
Read more: talkingclimate.ca/p/a-song-of-…
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The Fife Climate Festival is running again and starts at the end of this month.
Our Saltmarsh Stock Up event on Tuesday the 23rd is part of the Festival, with details online here
fccan.org.uk/events/saltmarsh-…
Lots of other events too, if you are in Fife, or close by, maybe there is one that suits you or someone you know?
#FifeClimateFestival #Volunteering #Fife #Scotland #conservation
Saltmarsh Restoration Volunteering
Join the Green Shores Saltmarsh Restoration team for some muddy conservation work at the Tayport Common saltmarsh at Tayport East Common.Fife Climate Hub
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Tour of Britain
We went by train and bike to see stage 3 of the race in the middle and then again at the end. Here's video we took in the middle, just north of Luton.
The leaders
The peloton
We recorded the broadcast of the race, and when we got home, we watched ourselves. We're famous! 😀
Leaders
Peloton
#tourofbritain
!cycling group group
#cycling #bicycle #bike #biking #velo
We will be harvesting Sea Club Rush plants to grow on and propagate in the Plant Hub polytunnel for saltmarsh restoration. If you are local to Tayport and would like to join in -contact us on greenshores@st-andrews.ac.uk for more info and to book a place.
#volunteering #Scotland #NatureScot #NatureRestorationFund #conservation
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We've carried out extensive tests* and can conclude spending time doing Saltmarsh Volunteering makes people happy.
Look at these happy volunteers!
These (and other) lovely folks have already smashed last year's volunteering hours record. We're delighted that collectively, our volunteers have chosen to donate over 400 hours of their time this year, and that's only the count so far!
*Looked at photos, remembered we were there being happy too
#NatureScot #NatureRestorationFund #Volunteering
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Positive tipping points for climate, like the UK phasing out coal, show how big steps toward a low-carbon future can suddenly become unstoppable.
Can we identify where the next tipping points could happen, and figure out how to help trigger them?
These researchers say YES.
Read more: link.springer.com/article/10.1…
A method to identify positive tipping points to accelerate low-carbon transitions and actions to trigger them - Sustainability Science
Meeting the Paris Agreement to limit global warming to “well below 2 °C” requires a radical acceleration of action, as the global economy is decarbonising at least five times too slowly.SpringerLink
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There are also state level Electric Vehicle (EV) related rebates like these available in MA for the purchase of new or used EVs, or for taking 12+ year old Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) cars off the road.
Eligibility & Requirements | MOR-EV.org
MOR-EV StandardMOR-EV Used VehicleMOR-EV+MOR-EV Trade-InMOR-EV Standard RebateEligibility for MOR-EV Standardmor-ev.org
We are a saltmarsh restoration project, on which social media do you think we have the most followers?
#SaltmarshRestoration #SocialMediaWars
- Facebook (15%, 9 votes)
- Instagram (11%, 7 votes)
- LinkedIn (5%, 3 votes)
- Mastodon (67%, 40 votes)
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Thank you for joining in the poll, hope you enjoyed it.
As promised, here's the answer.
The social media platform Green Shores has the most followers on is LinkedIn!
There were a few new follows on Mastodon over the course of the poll but LinkedIn is still ahead.
Biodiversity on the saltmarsh, from the very small to big enough to break your arm - saltmarsh supports a wide variety of insects and animals.
One of the best things about being able to work in this environment is the feeling of how lucky we are to help protect and restore more of this habitat.
#saltmarsh #NatureScot #NatureRestorationFund #Biodiversity
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Such a colourful time of year on the saltmarsh. The sea aster brings all the bees to the saltmarsh.
As if we needed more reasons to restore saltmarsh- biodiversity, erosion prevention, carbon storage, saltmarsh has it all.
#saltmarsh #NatureScot #NatureRestorationFund #BloomScrolling
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Can a coal town become a climate leader?
Guest editor Michael Sheldrick tells Western Australia's climate storyKatharine Hayhoe (Talking Climate)
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Tree-planting is always good, right? Well, it turns out that a tree planted in the wrong place can actually have a negative impact on the climate.
Trees are excellent at removing carbon from the atmosphere and cooling the Earth, but they also absorb a lot of sunlight. This means less sunlight will be reflected away from the Earth’s surface, which can cancel out the cooling benefit that comes from the trees storing carbon. That’s why a research team with scientists from The Nature Conservancy developed maps to help with strategic reforestation, to make sure that trees are planted in the right places for maximum benefit for both climate and biodiversity!
Read more here: nature.org/en-us/newsroom/new-…
New maps help decision-makers factor albedo into tree-planting plans
Albedo can cause large reductions to the climate benefit of tree planting – but new science helps identify locations with greatest climate-cooling potentialThe Nature Conservancy
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I'm going to express scepticism here. While the albedo effect is definitely real, if we don't get atmospheric carbon down the whole habitable planet will burn anyway, so more trees must always be good.
However, of course, we're pumping fossil carbon into atmosphere so fast that no amount of trees will save us anyway, so maybe it is all pointless.
NO. NOT in Africa's grasslands. Easy solutions often make things worse.
Sadly inclined to agree with your pessimism though.
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From carbon-trapping trees to threats to U.S. climate science, here’s this week’s Talking Climate snapshot.
🌱 Good news: New research finds East African fig trees can lock carbon away as stone-like calcium carbonate, keeping it in the soil long term while growing food at the same time!
⚠️ Not-so-good news: The U.S. is rolling back vital climate protections, re-writing science assessments and cancelling NASA satellites at a time when we need more protection, information, and data than ever.
✊ What you can do: One of the most effective ways to use our voice is by holding leaders accountable. It's not only about voting: we can speak up any time, submit comments on decisions we disagree with, and support legal challenges for climate action that are happening worldwide!
These days, climate action isn’t optional. Together, I believe we can make it unavoidable.
Read the full newsletter here: talkingclimate.ca/p/climate-de…
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Tide coming in and tide out at one of our saltmarsh restoration sites on the Eden.
The Saltmarsh plants are adapted to this twice daily tidal influx.
The recent planting are establishing and still hard to see against the sand behind the fences, they are fully submerged as the tide comes in.
#MeerMittwoch #NatureScot #NatureRestorationFund #SaltmarshRestoration
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The new growth accumulates sediment as it grows, increasing in size and height.
This growing patch of saltmarsh was spotted today on the Eden estuary.
#saltmarsh #NatureScot #NatureRestorationFund
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"We used to consume fossil fuels
to make ourselves power
But now we just look to the sun
for each kilowatt hour"
This is the cutest and most encouraging video I've seen all week. Give it a watch - and share if you agree!
youtube.com/watch?v=8MgKB34-yD…
- YouTube
Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.www.youtube.com
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