At 10-tonnes and 10 metres long, the latest feature in Saughton Park’s stunning £8m refurbishment made quite a splash when it was hoisted into position yesterday. Continue reading Saughton Park ‘screwed’!
Tag: environment
Visions for Change: climate crisis
Tuesday 8th October: 5.30 – 7.30pm
Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation
High School Yards, Edinburgh
This past year has seen climate change hit the headlines and awareness of the issue has increased. In this event, we showcase the stories of staff, students and alumni who are on the front-lines of climate change highlighted through our #VoicesofthePlanet campaign and discuss the responses and solutions to the climate crisis.
We’ll hear from policy experts, activists and some of our international students whose home countries are suffering due to inaction on the environment.
Open to all; please get in contact with Rachel.Chisholm@ed.ac.uk with any questions.
Brown Bin Permits are in the post
Residents who have signed up for the next garden waste service year in Edinburgh have started to receive their permit stickers through the post.
A total of 68,705 households registered for the fortnightly brown bin collections during the six-week sign-up period over the summer.
More than 75,000 individual permits were applied for, meaning a proportion of applicants paid for more than one brown bin.
Residents who have signed up to the service are urged to get in touch with the Council if they haven’t received their permits by Monday evening [30 September].
Environment Convener Councillor Lesley Macinnes said: “We’re almost at the start of our new service year for garden waste collections, so if you signed up over the summer, look out for your permit sticker landing on your doormat in the coming days.
“Last year, green-minded residents helped us send more than 9,000 tonnes of garden waste to be turned into compost for gardens, parks and farmland and we hope to recycle even more this coming service year.”
The next opportunity to sign up to the garden waste service will take place between 20 January and 3 February 2020.
Spotlight on new research at Napier’s Electric Vehicle Day
Scottish Transport Secretary Michael Matheson MSP will give the keynote address at an event showcasing electric vehicles – including two and three-wheelers, the Car of the Year and an electric double decker bus.
The Craiglockhart campus will be the setting for Edinburgh Napier University’s Fifth Annual Electric Vehicle Event on Wednesday October 9. Continue reading Spotlight on new research at Napier’s Electric Vehicle Day
World Leader: Scotland to become a net-zero society
While Westminster was busy tearing itself apart over Brexit this week, the Scottish Government announced ambitious plans to tackle environmental disaster …
Scotland’s contribution to climate change will end definitively within a generation under the Climate Change Bill to be voted on by the Scottish Parliament. Continue reading World Leader: Scotland to become a net-zero society
City council encourages residents to get the recycling habit
This Recycle Week, the City of Edinburgh Council is urging residents to get into the food waste recycling habit with a new video showing how easy it is to do.
Continue reading City council encourages residents to get the recycling habit
Frances O’ Grady: Climate strike students are an inspiration
School students taking part in yesterday’s climate strike are an inspiration, writes TUC General Secretary FRANCES O’ GRADY
Continue reading Frances O’ Grady: Climate strike students are an inspiration
National charity wants you to put the park into parking
Living Streets, the UK charity for everyday walking has teamed up with an award-winning community activist to create a ‘how to’ guide, to help people set up a pocket park – or ‘parklet’ – on their street. Continue reading National charity wants you to put the park into parking
Environment Secretary meets Scottish farmers
Environment Secretary Theresa Villiers has this week met members of the Scottish fishing, farming and food and drink industries as part of a two-day visit to Moray and Aberdeenshire. Continue reading Environment Secretary meets Scottish farmers
Great British Beach Clean on Sunday
Date & time: Sunday, 22 September 2019 – 11:30am – 2:00pm
Meeting location: Granton Harbour breakwater under the flags
Additional information:
For the third year in a row, we’re joining the national Marine Conservation Society for their ‘Great British Beach Clean’. We’re also celebrating the things we’ve tried to do over the year, and that we want to make sure happen.
The Wild Ones and Wardie Bay Beachwatch have applied to SEPA for Bathing Water Quality Monitoring at Wardie Bay. We want the sea to be healthy to swim in, and our environment to be as protected as it can be.
We are working with landowners and the Angling Megastore to provide fishing litter and general waste bins and signage on the Eastern Breakwater, to make sure our places are properly looked after, and to ask people to help sustain it.
Wardie Bay Beachwatch represents the hopes we have for our wider environment. If we all act on a local level and take that with us into whatever we do, and ask others to do the same, we can help.
Please join us!
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Sunday 22 September, 11:30 – 14:00
Please come and encourage friends and family to come along too.
Gloves and litter picking equipment are provided.
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Please also visit our twitter page @wardiebaybeach for regular tweets or find the event on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/483972618831239/
Write to Karen at wardiebaybeachwatch@gmail.com for further information.
Looking forward to seeing you!