Tag: environment

Go Green Festival at North Edinburgh Arts

It’s been just over a year since we’ve opened doors to the Community Shed. To celebrate this we’re hosting Green Go Festival with creative activities for all ages, live music & DJ and healthy vegetarian food.

The event is free but ticketed so ensure to pick up your ticket from the NEA reception.

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