Tag: environment

National Trust for Scotland to grow next generation of gardeners

The National Trust for Scotland has unveiled a new garden apprentice scheme to help nurture the next generation of talent to care for its 38 heritage gardens and designed landscapes. Continue reading National Trust for Scotland to grow next generation of gardeners

Registration for controversial new brown bin service opens on Monday

Registration for garden waste collections will open next week ahead of the introduction of a controversial new service in October. From Monday (18th June), Edinburgh residents must sign up on the Council website or at one of five local offices.if they wish to continue receiving brown bin collections. The annual brown bin collection service will cost residents £25.

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Today’s Wardie Bay Beachwatch event CANCELLED

Event rescheduled for next Saturday

Due to a terrible weather forecast, we have had to POSTPONE today’s event as we can’t record our important message in wind & rain (writes KAREN BATES).

Join us next Saturday at 12:00 for our @mcsuk beachclean followed by SOS!!!

Sign up fresh here: https://www.mcsuk.org/…/b…/wardie-bay-beach/event/2018-06-16 or here: https://www.facebook.com/events/653386118339741/

Wardie Bay Beachwatch SOS! Join us! •••−−−••• 10am, Saturday 16 June

Our next Wardie Bay Beachwatch, providing citizen science data to Marine Conservation Society, will be preceded by a mass participation SOS citizen sculpture, to be represented at the Edinburgh Shoreline exhibition at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, 23 July to 23 September.

The day also celebrates Friend’s of the Earth Scotland’s Pop Up Parks.

We want Wardie Bay to be the beautiful, thriving greenspace it deserves to be. So, please travel by bike, bus or car-share, bring hearty zero-waste picnic food, and let’s have a fabulous community garden party!
• • • − − − • • •
Saturday 16 June
10:00am  prompt!

We’ll create the SOS first, so if you want to stay for the MCS Beachwatch survey and beach clean, join us from 12:30 – 15:00.
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Dancing in the streets of Drylaw as road re-opens … but D Mains braced for traffic misery

They were dancing in the streets of Drylaw at the weekend when the SGN maintenance programme came to an end at last and Groathill Road North fully reopened. Continue reading Dancing in the streets of Drylaw as road re-opens … but D Mains braced for traffic misery

Call for groups to apply for grants to improve access to greenspaces

Scotland’s walking charity Paths for All has opened two grant schemes which are offering thousands of pounds to groups looking to enhance local paths. The grants, which are offering up to £3000 for community path projects, aim to empower communities to improve access to greenspaces, helping people to be more active more often. Continue reading Call for groups to apply for grants to improve access to greenspaces

Edinburgh to mark UK Clean Air Day with fume-free celebrations in city centre

Edinburgh is to celebrate the UK’s Clean Air Day on Thursday, June 21st in the city centre through a series of planned activities such as yoga on the Mound, a procession, and a series of talks from experts.  Continue reading Edinburgh to mark UK Clean Air Day with fume-free celebrations in city centre

Our super savvy kids: Plastic is Children’s Word of the Year

Plastic revealed as Children’s Word of the Year by Oxford University Press for BBC Radio 2 Chris Evans Breakfast Show’s 500 Words

  • Analysis by Oxford University Press of short stories submitted to BBC Radio 2’s 500 Words competition reveals more remarkable insights into UK children’s use of language.
  • A significant increase in the use of the word plastic shows the influence of David Attenborough’s Blue Planet II, which highlighted the damaging effect plastic pollution is having on marine life.
  • OUP results are released ahead of the 500 Words Live Final on Friday (8 June) from Hampton Court Palace Festival with special guest, Honorary Judge, HRH The Duchess of Cornwall and celebrity readers  Jason Isaacs, Jim Broadbent, Shobna Gulati, Dara O’Briain, and David Walliams and performances from John Newman, Alexandra Burke and Bastille

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Granton’s going greener!

 A new project to help people save money while helping to tackle climate change in the Granton community is to launch this month. Granton Goes Greener will be officially launched by local MP Deirdre Brock on Saturday 30 June, between 12 noon and 3pm at Granton Parish Church. Continue reading Granton’s going greener!