Ruth Olden

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The next installment of 'New Views of the Nearby', and the first pandemic postcard to go out via the West Dunbartonshire mailing system!

On 22nd April, in 1970, a milestone of environmentalism: the first Earth Day. Clydebank-born environmental thinker, Ian McHarg, helped to found the event, which raised international awareness of the need for environmental sustainability in a changing world

It was a pleasure to talk to the Clydebank Seniors Forum today, recipients of my pandemic postcards since March 2020. The project is called 'New Views of the Nearby' and its helping to address loneliness and social isolation in West Dunbartonshire HSCP.

The childhood experiences of Ian McHarg, landscape architect and environmental thinker, who grew up in Clydebank during the Clydeside Depression, when an environmental movement was born that changed Scotland's attitude to the outdoors. tributaries.buzzsprout.com/1474960/833446…

Volunteer guide at the Titan Crane Janice MacKenzie talking about storying Clydebank's industrial past. tributaries.buzzsprout.com/1474960/825466…