Side Projects

Plumbers, electricians, HVAC and wind turbine engineers will save the world. We interview the people wearing the hard hats and working at the 'coal face' of the energy transition and find out how they got where they are and learn about the opportunities in a variety of sectors.

Missing Links are the gaps in the active travel infrastructure in and around Dumfries. The project began as a series of blog posts by Cycling Dumfries, morphed into a community funded book and is now a website for tracking progress towards filling in the gaps.

Directory of businesses, clubs, services and events in Dumfries. Free listings for anything in Dumfries.

An annual survey a league table of local authorities and health boards in Scotland to track their roll out of renewables.

A free bi-weekly roundup of news from the world of renewable energies every 1st and 3rd Monday of the month.

Carbon.scot is tracker of progress towards decarbonising Scotland's economy. This is a data heavy project with over 21 million records analysed and presented as charts. New data is gathered every few seconds from a variety of sources.

A thought experiment in co-locating solar panels alongside rural active travel paths in order to reduce the need for grant funding, increase their feasibility by reducing land purchase barriers and getting greater community benefit than conventional models..