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Want to be part of Scotland’s first ever online election debate on climate change?

Posted on March 29, 2011 | Comments Off on Want to be part of Scotland’s first ever online election debate on climate change?

Climate Change Election Debate
Wednesday 13th April, 7.30 – 9pm

The Scottish elec­tions are com­ing up fast.  Stop Climate Chaos Scotland is cam­paign­ing to keep cli­mate change firmly on the polit­ic­al agenda, and we need your support.

We’d love you to take part in the Climate Day Election Debate – a fant­ast­ic oppor­tun­ity to ask your burn­ing ques­tions about cli­mate change to your future politi­cians from the com­fort of your own liv­ing room.

Exactly three weeks today, the event will be broad­cast over the inter­net start­ing at 7.30pm. Tune in online to watch the debate and post your ques­tions by email, Facebook or Twitter, for party spokespeople to answer live.

Your involve­ment will help ensure our future politi­cians under­stand just how import­ant tack­ling cli­mate change is to the people of Scotland.

Don’t miss this unique oppor­tun­ity to make a big difference.

Register your interest and ask your ques­tion today on Facebook or by email.

Find out more about the debate

Gail Wilson
Stop Climate Chaos Scotland Co-ordinator

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Planting Week at Greendykes Allotments

Posted on February 25, 2011 | Comments Off on Planting Week at Greendykes Allotments

Greendykes Organic Allotments are hold­ing a Planting Week between 4 – 11th March. To kick start things they are look­ing for volun­teers to help plant 200 nat­ive trees on 4th March between 10am — 2pm.

Tools, gloves and refresh­ments will be provided. Bring spades or extra plants if you have them!

For fur­ther inform­a­tion please con­tact Brian Shields on 0131 6613504 (wk) or 0131 6605351 (hm) or brian.shields@edinburgh.gov.uk

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Nourish Scotland Annual Conference 2011

Posted on February 16, 2011 | Comments Off on Nourish Scotland Annual Conference 2011

NOURISH ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2011 

11TH AND 12TH MARCH 

PEARCE INSTITUTE GLASGOW

Nourish is a net­work of people and groups inter­ested in loc­al food in Scotland, who, to quote their Declaration of Dunbar “..are work­ing towards a sus­tain­able Scotland in which, in every region we pro­duce more of what we eat and eat more of what we pro­duce.”  To join just register at Nourish.

The Nourish Scotland Annual Conference 2011 will bring togeth­er parties inter­ested in Local Food from all over the UK for Wonderful Workshops, Spectacular Speakers, Luscious Local Food and a Cracking Ceilidh!  Tickets are on sale from http://nourishconference2011.eventbrite.com/

HUSTINGS EVENT

On Saturday, Lesley Riddoch will be chair­ing the debate at our Hustings event, with polit­ic­al rep­res­ent­at­ives from a cross sec­tion of parties tak­ing your ques­tions on the issues sur­round­ing Local Food and Land Use.

WORKSHOPS INCLUDING (tbc):

Wild Food with Ian Edwards of the Scottish Wild Harvests Association

Farmer’s Markets with Howard Wilkinson of Ayrshire Food Network

What To Do when the Funding runs out – expert advice on Social Enterprise and Income Generation

CAP Reform with David Barnes of the Scottish Government

Nourish: The Way Forward – Plenary Session to vote on pri­or­it­ies for Nourish Strategic Plan and options for Regionalisation

Opportunities in Procurement & Government Tenders includ­ing the Commonwealth Games

Getting Community Growing Projects Going with Urban Roots

Food Waste with Zero Waste Scotland

Land Use Strategy with Jo Hunt and John Ferguson of Nourish

Inspirational Visit to LEGUP Urban Growing Project in Govan

Land and Legal Issues for Community Growing with Landshare

Orchards with pan­el­list of 4 experts tak­ing your questions

Veg Box Schemes – with Caspar Lampkin and Fiona Ross

Food Security with Mike Small of Fife Diet

Haggis Making with Chef Didier of Whitmuir Organics

Andrew Whitley from Bread Matters, founder of the Village Bakery and Real Bread Campaign

Fisheries, Slow Food and many more…

CEILIDH

We’ll be dan­cing the night away in our Friday night Ceilidh with music from Sarah Northcott and the Little Biggar Band. We’ll be provid­ing a bar too for your choice of refreshment…

FOOD

Delicious sea­son­al meals using loc­al pro­duce (organ­ic wherever pos­sible) will be sup­plied by Hyndberry. Lunch and Dinner on Friday and Lunch on Saturday are included in the price of Weekend Tickets.

FREE CHILDCARE AND CHILD TICKETS!

This year we have Free Childcare cour­tesy of GERA’s Mobile Play Team who’ll be run­ning food related work­shops and arts and crafts activ­it­ies for the young­er delegates.

LOCATION

The con­fer­ence will be held at the Pearce Institute in Govan, Glasgow. The Pearce is a fant­ast­ic ven­ue, with plenty of room for net­work­ing and break­out ses­sions. It’s right across the street from the Subway, is wheel­chair access­ible and has a Hearing Induction Loop. More here: http://www.pearceinstitute.org.uk/

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Mushroom Growing course

Posted on February 16, 2011 | 10 Comments

There will be a Mushroom Growing Course on Saturday the 19th of February, between 10am and 12 noon. Come along and learn from Dr Neville Kilkenny the fas­cin­at­ing art of grow­ing edible mush­rooms on wooden logs, and take home your own inn­ocu­lated log! This is an indoor course lim­ited to 12 places. The course is free, but we sug­gest a dona­tion of £5. Please reserve your place early to avoid dis­ap­point­ment! (NB This course is now full, but register your interest with us in case we are able to lay on anoth­er mush­room event.)

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United we stand…

Posted on February 14, 2011 | Comments Off on United we stand…

Sustainable com­munit­ies work­ing togeth­er towards fin­an­cial independence.

In these tough eco­nom­ic times how do ‘com­munity led’ sus­tain­ab­il­ity pro­jects main­tain momentum? What strategies/income gen­er­at­ing options exist or could be developed, and how can com­munit­ies work togeth­er to increase the effect of what they do?

You are invited to attend a gath­er­ing of act­ive com­munit­ies in Scotland to dis­cuss these ideas and to con­sider some of our options.  Click here to book a place

Date: 5th March 2011
Time: 9.30am (for regis­tra­tion) till 5pm
Venue: Oatridge College, Ecclesmachan, BROXBURN, West Lothian EH52 6NH (click for map)

There will be a free minibus between Linlithgow rail­way sta­tion and the venue

Cost

This event is free. You can also get help with travel costs.

Speakers

Tim Helwig Larsen (author of the Zero Carbon Britain Report) — Energy Bank
Georgy Davis - Community Energy Scotland, Development Officer for SE Scotland
James Hiddinga — Ethica Solutions Scotland Ltd.

A diverse range of speak­ers will high­light some of the ways that com­munit­ies can work togeth­er on income gen­er­at­ing pro­jects. There will be oppor­tun­it­ies to work in depth with the speak­ers and get a real insight into the range of pro­jects they are engaged with. There will also time to talk with people from oth­er com­munit­ies, to share your own thoughts and ideas and hear from others.

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Happy Green Cooking!

Posted on February 7, 2011 | Comments Off on Happy Green Cooking!

Last chance to book a place on Out of the Blue’s Happy Green Cookery Course which starts tomorrow.

The Happy Green Cookery Course Flyer

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Just Food: Learning from New York City’s experience

Posted on January 21, 2011 | Comments Off on Just Food: Learning from New York City’s experience

Friday February 11 Quaker Meeting House Edinburgh 5.30 – 8.30

Just Food con­nects loc­al farms with the city to get fresh, sea­son­al and sus­tain­ably grown food to people on all dif­fer­ent incomes

This event is for every­one inter­ested in strength­en­ing Edinburgh’s loc­al food sys­tem and mak­ing afford­able fresh loc­al food avail­able to all.

5.30 Soup and bread

6.30 Talk by Abby Youngblood from Just Food, fol­lowed by discussion

Cost £2 at the door.  Advance book­ing essential

To book or for fur­ther inform­a­tion con­tact pete@whitmuirorganics.co.uk 01968 661908

This event has been sponsored jointly by:

Transition Edinburgh South

Nourish

Edinburgh Local Food Network

Transition Edinburgh University

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Next Portobello Organic Market — 5th February

Posted on January 5, 2011 | Comments Off on Next Portobello Organic Market — 5th February

Portobello Organic Market fea­tures the best of artis­an and organ­ic food, drink and arts & crafts sourced from the south east of Scotland. The mar­ket is held on the first Saturday of each month (except January, when there will be no mar­ket). With an open plan lay­out and up to 25 stalls selling a wide range of pro­duce, what bet ter way to start your month?

Venue: Brighton Park, Brighton Place, Portobello, Edinburgh
Opening Times: 10am to 2pm, Saturday 5th February and the first Saturday of every month thereafter.

You can view more inform a tion about the Organic Market and how to book a stall via these links.

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FREE Community Gardener Training

Posted on December 21, 2010 | Comments Off on FREE Community Gardener Training

In February and March 2011, The Edinburgh Community Backgreens Association (ECBA) will be run­ning a FREE Community Gardener train­ing pro­gramme, cov­er­ing all the skills you need to become a fully fledged com­munity garden­er in your neighbourhood.

During the course of the train­ing, we will estab­lish a com­munity garden­er net­work so the par­ti­cipants can sup­port each other’s pro­jects after the train­ing has finished.

This train­ing is for any­one who is involved in com­munity garden­ing pro­jects, or any­one who would like to start or get involved with a pro­ject.  The par­ti­cip­at­ory approach to train­ing means that we will draw on par­ti­cipants’ var­ied know­ledge and exper­i­ences to learn.

Course Content
some of the key themes we will cov­er are:

* Models for Community Gardening with­in a Tenemental Context
* How to recruit group mem­bers and pub­li­cise Community Backgreen projects
* Design Issues and cre­at­ing a devel­op­ment plan for your site
* Carrying out your back­green plans: run­ning work­shops etc
* Running a Community Backgreen Group
* Establishing a sup­port net­work for the newly trained Community Gardeners

Dates and Location
The Community Gardener train­ing will run on four full Saturdays from 10am-5pm, (with reg­u­lar refresh­ment breaks). The train­ing will be held at the ECBA offices: 5 Rose Street  The dates of the work­shops will be:

Saturday 12th February
Saturday 26th February
Saturday 12th March
Saturday 26th March

Registration and Attendance
You can attend just some or all of the work­shops, as long as you let ECBA know in advance which ones you plan to attend.  To register for the course:
email courses@ecba.org.uk, or call 0131 248 2698

For more inform­a­tion see the ECBA web­site — www.ecba.org.uk

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St Philip’s campaign and pledge

Posted on September 22, 2010 | Comments Off on St Philip’s campaign and pledge

Sunday 26th September saw the launch of a cam­paign by St Philips church to sup­port the con­greg­a­tion and church hall users in redu­cing their car­bon emis­sions by 10% with­in a year.

At har­vest sunday mass, there was a present­a­tion on cli­mate change and things we can all do to reduce our car­bon foot­print. Over the fol­low­ing year, there will be oppor­tun­it­ies for people to make pledges, receive more inform­a­tion on how to ful­fill these, and report back on the changes they’ve made.

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