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Fire Under the Stars: Environmental songs, stories and humour with Eric Maddern

June 8th, 2010 · No Comments · Energy, Food, carbon reduction, events

[ June 20, 2010; 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm. ]
We became human sit­ting round a fire under the stars. We are now burn­ing up the planet. We are a mir­acle in the Universe yet we are under­min­ing our sur­vival and the sur­vival of the Garden of Eden that is our lovely, lonely, liv­ing Planet Earth.

This show is a bold, inspir­ing, hope­ful and heart-warming take […]

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Water saving campaign

May 27th, 2010 · No Comments · Energy, carbon reduction, events

[ June 2, 2010; 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm. ] By the first week of June every­one in Portobello should be receiv­ing a Home Water check form through their doors. By send­ing back com­pleted forms, indi­vidu­als will get a report on ways they can reduce water use. This can save energy and money, and cut car­bon emis­sions. Money can be saved by redu­cing hot water […]

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Blog from the huge Copenhagen Climate march

December 13th, 2009 · No Comments · carbon reduction

Along with about 45,000 other peo­ple I’ve been at the Bella Cen­tre in Copen­hagen where the Cli­mate Change nego­ti­a­tions and side events have been hap­pen­ing in a place capa­ble of hold­ing only 15,000 peo­ple (see Day One below).
Then I joined 100,000 folk to march on the Bella Cen­tre to demand real action now (see Day Two below).
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By train to Greece

June 21st, 2009 · No Comments · Transport, carbon reduction

The hol­i­day sea­son is approach­ing! If you need some inspir­a­tion about low-impact travel, have a read of My Hovercraft is Full of Eels, a new blog by PEDAL mem­bers Jane, Chris and Callum, about the train jour­ney across Europe they are plan­ning this summer.

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5 FREE Bus Passes for a month! How and Why??!!

June 11th, 2009 · No Comments · Transport, carbon reduction

Why not take up the PEDAL chal­lenge?
On Car Free Day in September, we will draw names out of a hat to issue five lucky people with a free Ridacard each for one month to help you exper­i­ment with mak­ing the trans­ition from car use to pub­lic trans­port use!  In return, you will pledge to not use […]

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Cuba Night was-salsa brilliant!

January 17th, 2009 · No Comments · Energy, carbon reduction

Well over a hun­dred folk par­ti­cip­ated …
in a won­der­ful even­ing of Salsa les­sons & Dancing, a Presentation on Transition by Eva and an inspir­ing film on Saturday 21st Feb in St Philips Church Hall.
The film - ”The Power of Community’  —  about Cuba’s exper­i­ence of how to deal with Peak Oil (they lost 50% of their oil sup­ply overnight) was followed […]

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