PEDAL -> Portobello Transition Town

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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Firstly, a 1962 advert in which ESSO boasts of it’s power to melt ice­bergs!
Rob Edwards quotes James Curran (Head of Science at the Scottish Environment Protection Agency) response in The Herald
George Monbiot in The Guardian sum­mar­ises what happened at Copenhagen.
A pub­lic rela­tions expert explains to Americans why Obama can’t really do any­thing about health­care, climate […]

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Portobello WaveDD!!! At 9am on a wet Saturday morn­ing, 80 of us climbed onto the two buses near the Town Hall that Tom Ballantine had organ­ised and headed over to Glasgow to join the biggest ever demon­stra­tion against Climate Chaos in Scotland.  In all, about 8,000 people walked behind bright ban­ners  —  the huge Porty flower made […]

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A brief round up of what’s happened/ what’s happening/ and what’s on it’s way (scroll down to find what’s com­ing up!)
1. Car Free Day was very suc­cess­ful in terms of num­bers in bike parade, the little mar­ket and a really well atten­ded Isle of Egg play. For next year we’ll try to be more ambi­tious and […]

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It looks as though the next film is likely to be ‘Home’, we expect it to be shown at St Philips on Wednesday 14^th October … but we await con­firm­a­tion …
But, just to remind you of the last film: The Porty Premiere of Age of Stupid film Sunday 21^st June at St Philips Church Hall, […]

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