Ellie Harrison

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  • 2022 Lecture

    Members Meeting

    20 Jan 2022
    Glasgow Community Energy

  • 2021 Media

    Glasgow: 18 million trees can’t be wrong part II

    27 Dec 2021
    Dr. Klangendum, de Concertzender (Netherlands)

  • 2021 Media

    COP26 public transport demo

    10 Nov 2021
    Lunchtime Live, BBC Radio Scotland

  • 2021 Lecture

    Geared Up: Campaigns for greener transport

    8 Nov 2021
    Just Transition Hub, Glasgow

  • 2021 Media
    BBC News Arabic

    What are the latest technologies provided by solar energy?

    8 Nov 2021
    4Tech, BBC News Arabic

  • 2021 Lecture

    Bike & Talk around Glasgow with artist Ellie Harrison

    7 Nov 2021
    The Encampment of Eternal Hope, Glasgow

  • 2021 Lecture

    Energy for a 21st Century City

    6 Nov 2021
    Common Ground Fest, University of Glasgow

  • 2021 Lecture

    Glasgow Communities Bloc Rally

    6 Nov 2021
    Global Day of Action, Kelvingrove Park, Glasgow

  • 2021 Media

    Coal, steam, empire and COP26: Glasgow’s emissions story

    6 Nov 2021
    The Herald

  • 2021 Lecture

    Climate Change & Inequalities

    4 Nov 2021
    Cycling Scotland Conference

  • 2021 Lecture

    Transforming Public Transport to Fight Climate Change

    3 Nov 2021
    The Deep End, Glasgow

  • 2021 Lecture

    ACT: Environment & Climate

    2 Nov 2021
    The Deep End, Glasgow

  • 2021 Lecture

    Art, Activism & the Climate Emergency

    27 Oct 2021
    Contemporary Art Practice Speaker's Programme, University of Dundee

  • 2021 Media

    26 visions of hope for Scotland ahead of climate summit

    24 Oct 2021
    The Herald

  • 2021 Lecture

    Community Wealth Building in a Climate Emergency

    11 Sep 2021
    Scottish Trade Union Congress

  • 2021 Lecture

    Implementing Scotland’s new bus powers: what’s at stake?

    8 Sep 2021
    Get Glasgow Moving Members Meeting

  • 2021 Exhibition

    Magallanes y las geografías de lo (des)conocido

    6 Sep 2021
    Parque Cultural de Valparaíso (Chile)

  • 2021 Lecture

    Just Transition in Transport?

    2 Sep 2021
    Climate, Jobs, Justice: Making the Just Transition Happen, Just Transition Partnership

  • 2021 Media
    Reporting Scotland

    Transport Proposals in SNP-Green Deal

    27 Aug 2021
    BBC Reporting Scotland

  • 2021 Media

    Magallanes y las geografías de lo (des)conocido

    23 Aug 2021
    Artishock (Chile)

  • 2021 Lecture

    Raising ambition: A tale of two Regions

    29 Jun 2021
    Connect with Climate Change

  • 2021 Media

    Community energy: power to the people

    21 Apr 2021
    Local Zero (0:24:31-0:35:40)

  • 2021 Lecture

    Building Back Better: Industry, Innovation & Infrastructure

    27 Mar 2021
    Scottish Green Party Conference

  • 2021 Lecture

    Putting Free Buses back on the Agenda

    25 Mar 2021
    Free Our City public hearing (1:44:01-1:50:01)

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Ellie Harrison is an artist & activist based in Glasgow (UK). In 2023 she won the Stephen Fry Public Engagement Award for her ‘Bus Regulation: The Musical’ Trilogy in Greater Manchester, Strathclyde & Merseyside (2019 – 2023).
In 2021 the Second Edition of Harrison’s book The Glasgow Effect: A Tale of Class, Capitalism & Carbon Footprint was launched at the UN Habitat’s Innovate4Cities conference to mark the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, and chosen by the Ecologist for the Resurgence Book Club. Her Early Warning Signs were also exhibited at Glasgow’s Mitchell Library during COP26 to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the project.
Harrison’s Vending Machine continues to feature in the 😹 LMAO exhibition exploring humour in data visualisation at the Open Data Institute in London.

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Ellie Harrison

Artist, activist & author of 'The Glasgow Effect: A Tale of Class, Capitalism & Carbon Footprint' 📚

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Don't miss our Better Buses National Hustings tonight! 👇 You can catch me on the livestream at 7pm:
📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rFh2CjP_Xs @followers
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"We need The Scottish Government to support our transport authority, SPT, to bring the bus network back into public control, so they can deliver a fully-integrated, accessible and affordable public transport network across the region like Greater Manchester’s new ‘Bee Network’, or the recently released plans for South Yorkshire’s ‘People’s Network’" — Ellie Harrison

I was delighted to contribute to Gerry Hassan's article for Bella Caledonia about 𝘈 𝘕𝘦𝘸 𝘋𝘦𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘝𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘎𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘨𝘰𝘸 👏 Read online here 👇
bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/03/31/time-for-a-new-deal-and-vision-for-glasgow @followers
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Calling all A-N members! Don't miss this online artist's talk and workshop on '𝗔𝗿𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗲𝗻𝘃𝗶𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲' which I'm co-hosting this Thursday 2 April, 11am-1pm 🌍 Find out more 👇 @followers ... See MoreSee Less

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Are you in Glasgow this evening? Come along to this free screening of the brilliant POWER Film at The Glasgow School of Art 👇 I'll be introducing the event, talking about my work with Glasgow Community Energy and chairing a Q&A with artist and filmmaker Hilary Powell 😊 @followersSave the date! 🌞 We're delighted to be collaborating with Friends of the Earth Scotland to bring you Turning homes into renewable Power Stations: film screening & Discussion 👇
🗓️ Thurs 12 March 2026, 5:30pm
📍 Reid Building, The Glasgow School of Art
🎟️ Book free tickets: powerstationGSA.eventbrite.com @followers
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It’s this blatant injustice that motivates all my campaigning 😡 Why should people in the poorest parts of Glasgow have to pay 𝘯𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘸𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘢𝘴 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩 for an essential public service as bankers in the City of London? Shame on The Scottish Government for presiding over this system for more than 25 years! @followers ... See MoreSee Less

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Ten years ago today, I was just beginning my year-long durational performance #TheGlasgowEffect which was to become one of the most controversial publicly-funded artworks that Scotland had ever seen.

Part psychological experiment, part protest, part strike, for the whole of 2016, I vowed not to travel beyond Glasgow’s city limits, or use any vehicles except my bike.

I described my experience of starting #TheGlasgowEffect, including being at the centre of the social media stooshie it provoked, in ‘When the Chips Hit the Fan’ – Chapter 5 of my book ‘The Glasgow Effect: A Tale of Class, Capitalism & Carbon Footprint’ published by Luath Press 📚

We have just printed a newly updated version of the Second Edition, so do have a read if you’d like to be transported back to that moment in January 2016... Find out more at: ellieharrison.com/book @followers
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It's been brilliant working with Metro Map Design to produce Get Glasgow Moving's new film setting out our vision for the new #ClydeMetro integrated public transport system 🤩 Check it out here 👇 @followers ... See MoreSee Less

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🚶🚲🚍🚇🚉 I was honoured to be invited to discuss my activism with Bring Back British Rail, Get Glasgow Moving & Better Buses for Strathclyde at ETF's 𝘉𝘶𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘈𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘉𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘗𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 conference at KVS Brussels 🙌 @followers ... See MoreSee Less

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