Useful links
Campaigning groups
- Holyrood 350
Holyrood 350 is campaigning for the Scottish Government at Holyrood to take immediate action to stop accelerating climate change by radically reducing our carbon emissions and so setting a global example for other countries to follow.
- People and Planet
Composting
- Home composting
Changeworks’ home composting page. Here you can find information and advice to help you start composting in your own garden.
Energy
- Carbonize
The only app that pits volcanoes against spaceships. Learn how the carbon footprint of one thing stacks up against another. Simple, yes? Let’s CARBONIZE.
- Community Energy Scotland
- Ecotricity
Turn your electricity bill into a windmill
- Good Energy
The only totally renewable electricity supplier.
- Zero-carbon Britain
A low carbon vision for the future.
Land Reform
- Community Assets
Community assets are land and buildings owned or managed by community organisations. Locality members use assets to bring long-term social, economic and environmental improvements to their local neighbourhoods
- Isle of Eigg
The Isle of Eigg Heritage Trust was set up in 1997 to secure the island's future and to provide its small population with the opportunity to grow under their own initiatives and efforts.
- Land Reform Act
Helping communities across Scotland exercise their rights under the Land Reform (Scotland) Act through the provision of independent advice and support
- Who owns Scotland?
Andy Wightman's 'Who owns Scotland?' website: Scottish and International Perspectives on Land Tenure, Land Reform, Land Use and Social Land Ownership
Links
- Stallholders Page
Link for stallholders
- Stallholders Page
Link for stallholders
Local trading & bartering
- Edinburgh LETS
- Freecycle Edinburgh
Dedicated to free transfer of unwanted goods in Edinburgh as part of the Freecycle™ movement.
Orchards
- Community Woodlands Association
The Community Woodlands Association was established in 2003 as the direct representative body of Scotland’s community woodland groups. They help community woodland groups across the country achieve their aspirations and potential, providing advice, assist
Recycling
- Freecycle Edinburgh
Dedicated to free transfer of unwanted goods in Edinburgh as part of the Freecycle™ movement.
- How to reduce, reuse and recycle
Transition Towns
- Transition Edinburgh
This web site is in transition - it will gradually develop into a useful resource for people involved, or interested, in Transition Edinburgh.
- Transition Scotland
The Head, Heart & Hands of Energy Descent in Scotland
Transport
- Alternatives to Flying
- BG Cycles and Blades
www.bgcycles.co.uk - excellent local bikeshop, 48 Porty High Street, open 7 days a week. Bikes and inline skates for sale or rent. Repairs carried out same day/ next day.
- City Car Club
Join the increasing community of drivers who find pay-as-you-go motoring cheaper, more convenient and less hassle than owning their own car.
- Flight Pledge Union
- More Transport Links
A page on this site with more transport links
- Traveline Scotland
For bus and train info, just a finger click or phone call away!
Weblogs
- Transition Culture
An evolving exploration into the head, heart and hands of energy descent.