🗓️ 20th March 2026, Friday
⏰ 17:30 doors open 18:00 event start
🗺️The Depot, Dumfries
In the run up to the Holyrood elections, many of us have been considering how to make our votes count for the environment.
So, March’s Climate Kitchen event was all about politics. What counts as green politics? Should we be working within the institutional political realm at all given the limited progress we have seen so far? Is there more to be gained by working outside the electoral system to take power over the changes we can make? Can politics of the act and politics of demand coexist?
We were lucky enough to be joined by three people with fascinating insights into these questions: Benjamin Franks, lecturer in Environmental Politics as The University of Glasgow, Julie Douglass with extensive experience of environmental activism, and Neil Gavin researcher in the portrayal and reception of activism in the media. Thank you so much to our speaker
Thank you so much to our speakers!
Looking at the ways in which both electoral politics and direct action politics have benefits and limitations for creating true environmental change, it was easy to feel overwhelmed by the obstacles we face in terms of making real progress. However, the energy in the room, full of people all looking to achieve the same goal and with expertise in different and complimentary areas filled us with hope.
See our previous year’s political events!
Get a FREE TICKET to our April screening of People’s Emergency Briefing where we again consider how to make sure our politicians turns the needs of the planet into real action.