PEDAL -> Portobello Transition Town

Portobello’s plans to pro­duce and sell its own green elec­tri­city have taken a step for­ward with the announce­ment of a £72,000 fund­ing award for PEDAL.
The grant award from the Scottish Government’s Communities and Renewable Energy Scotland scheme is to pay for legal and plan­ning costs in estab­lish­ing a com­munity owned wind tur­bine on Portobello’s fam­ous Promenade.
The […]

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We have just sent out our invit­a­tion to tender for the com­munity farm feas­ib­il­ity study!
To find out more go to the Invitation to Tender page.

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MIDSUMMER’S PARTY  —  SATURDAY 19 JUNE  —  at the Orchard, at a time to be con­firmed but likely to be early even­ing onwards.
The next orch­ard work day will take place on Saturday 12^th June, from 10 am  —  2 pm. Everyone is wel­come!
The next Orchard  Group meet­ing will take place on Wednesday 17^th June at 7.30 pm in the Dalriada.
Subsequent orch­ard work […]

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PEDAL has received a Climate Challenge Fund award for a pro­ject which includes devel­op­ment of the orch­ard, plus other food ini­ti­at­ives as well as the intro­duc­tion of energy sav­ing meas­ures for Portobello res­id­ents. The announce­ment of the new Climate Challenge Fund pro­jects was made on Wednesday , 31 March [list of all […]

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We had an excel­lent turn out for PEDAL’s AGM on 25^th March. Kitchen Canny gave a great out­line of their work, the Chair (Justin) and Treasurer (Stephen) reviewed the year, Diana told the story of the Orchard using Jane’s and Mary Jane’s excel­lent slides, and our new Project Manager  —  Tom Black  —  out­lined an excit­ing year ahead as […]

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PEDAL -> Portobello Transition Town has recruited 4 work­ers to run a new pro­ject aim­ing to reduce the col­lect­ive car­bon foot­print of Portobello and to develop local resources to meet the needs of our com­munity.
Project Manager:
We have employed an exper­i­enced man­ager to man­age our pro­jects and fin­ances, fund raise, communicate […]

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PEDAL has a sup­ply of Powerdown Switches and Energy effi­cient 15w Bayonet light bulbs. Any Portobello res­id­ent can apply for them. Both will help save you money and help stop cli­mate chaos.
The Powerdown Switches allow you to switch off all your com­puter peri­pher­als (printer, scan­ner etc) with one switch.
Energy effi­cient light bulbs can save you over […]

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Richard Heinberg sums up what happened in Copenhagen and bril­liantly por­trays the lar­ger con­text and why local action is the best way forward.

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Test your Earth IQ here
and then find out one of the key ways we can stop run­away cli­mate change if we choose to …

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