SUNDAY 18 SEPTEMBER 1.30 – 4.30pm
Inverleith Park (East)
Tag: environment
Don’t let a good thing to to waste
Do your bit during Recycle Week
The City of Edinburgh Council is encouraging residents to get involved in Recycle Week, which started yesterday. The week, which is co-ordinated by Zero Waste Scotland, aims to get everyone in Scotland recycling more by raising awareness of its benefits and promoting easy ways to do more. Continue reading Don’t let a good thing to to waste
Talking rubbish: council crackdown on trade waste abuse
The city council has set up a Waste Compliance Team to tackle the illegal disposal of trade waste by businesses, particularly around communal bins. The six person squad – a team leader and five wardens – started their inspections last week. Continue reading Talking rubbish: council crackdown on trade waste abuse
Latest phase of Leith Walk programme is underway
Work has begun on the next stage of a major project to improve Leith Walk. Phase Four of the Leith Programme, between Pilrig Street and McDonald Road is now under way in September and will last around ten months. Contractors Land Engineering Ltd are now on site, with construction expected to end in summer 2017. Continue reading Latest phase of Leith Walk programme is underway
Join the Great British Beach Clean at Granton
Join in the Great British Beach Clean Family event
Monday 19 September (school holiday) 10.15am-2pm
If you’d like to get some fresh air with the kids on the the Monday autumn holiday, come along with us to take part in the Great British Beach Clean at Granton!
This is a family event helping clean and monitor litter levels at the beach. We’ll have a picnic snack and beach games as well as collecting and logging litter levels at the beach (with some help from Matt at the Marine Conservation Society).
Meet at NEA at 10.15 to get the bus to Granton Harbour, returning to NEA by 2pm.
Children under 8 must be accompanied, and we would love it if you could sign up at NEA so we know who’s coming:
- call 0131 315 2151,
- e-mail garden@northedinburgharts.co.uk or
- drop in to us at 15a Pennywell Court, EH4 4TZ.
And for more info on the Great British Beach Clean go to
http://www.mcsuk.org/beachwatch/greatbritishbeachclean
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Children’s writing competition: green fingers required!
Young entrants to Edinburgh’s Green Pencil Award were immersed in their subject matter at the launch of the annual writing competition yesterday. Preston Street Primary School pupils explored the competition’s theme, Scotland’s Glorious Gardens, during a visit to Princes Street Gardens. Continue reading Children’s writing competition: green fingers required!
Victoria Park mini-allotments officially opened
Edinburgh’s newest allotments have been officially opened on the site of a former bowling green in Victoria Park. Continue reading Victoria Park mini-allotments officially opened
Breathing life into disadvanted communities
Environmental improvement fund open for applications
Green projects can now bid for a share of £400,000 to enhance woodlands and green infrastructure, boost active travel and encourage community growing. Continue reading Breathing life into disadvanted communities
Green Tease: creative solutions to temporary sites
Green Tease: Creative Solutions to Temporary Sites
Date/time: Tuesday 30 August 4 – 6pm
Venue: North Edinburgh Arts, 15a Pennywell Court, Edinburgh EH4 4TZ
Centipede Project, based in North Edinburgh, are offering a guided tour of and discussion about their three public spaces in Muirhouse all within a 1 km of each other, developed in collaboration with local residents, businesses and schools, and latterly in partnership with City of Edinburgh Council.
These brownfield interventions include a huge grass labyrinth, a natural play area, and a former low rise housing block site now under development into a wildflower meadow, and natural play area. We will also include their most recent construction, a 25m rammed earth Amphitheatre and stage. During the session we’ll learn about the different values that creative practices can bring to sustainable brownfield sites and public space developments.
This event will appeal to those working in areas including: urban planning and regeneration, green and brownfield space development, community development, landscape architecture, urban playground development,creative practices. It is run as part of our Green Tease Open Call Fund.
Find out more and register here: http://www. creativecarbonscotland.com/ event/green-tease-creative- solutions-temporary-sites-2/
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Joanne McArthur
Project Coordinator
0131 315 2151
centipedeproject.wordpress.com
Feel great, not guilty!
RE-USE line 0800 0665 820
Edinburgh residents are being offered the opportunity to feel great, not guilty, about what happens to their unwanted household itemsby calling the Re-use Line to arrange for their items to have another life. Continue reading Feel great, not guilty!