Community action/East Lothian
The aim of this page is to recognise, celebrate and encourage the self-empowerment of community agency networks (CANs) and community groups' activism for climate, environment and many other sustainability topics across East Lothian.
News
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From Protesting To Worldmaking, Alternative Editorial (Oct 18, 2026) - Perth decided as location for launch of the Scottish People’s Meeting, peoplesmeeting.org.uk (Sep 09, 2026) — We are delighted to have Perth as the home for the launch of the Scottish People's meeting: it is a beautiful city right in the heart of Scotland with excellent facilities. Most importantly there is a very strong commitment from Perth and Kinross Council to making the event a success
- A "Scottish Artists Minimum Income" scheme is to be piloted as soon as practicable [The Skinny], Daily Alternative (Sep 01, 2026)
- Firefighters voice growing concerns over water supplies to tackle UK wildfires, theguardian.com (Oct 21, 2026) — Housing development recognised as one of a number of pressures increasing demand on an already stretched water network
- Severe drought declared in six areas of England as reservoirs run low, theguardian.com (Oct 15, 2026)
- Ardingly Reservoir falls below 20% as drought persists, BBC News (Oct 14, 2026)
- Citizens need to power Europe's future, demnext.substack.com (Oct 02, 2026) — The EU can enable new democratic institutions: in European countries; with a European Citizens’ Assembly as a 4th branch of government, and by legally enforcing the Global Citizens’ Assembly on AI, Claudia Chwalisz and Another Democratic Future
- Reclaiming the streets: the architects clawing back Europe’s car-centric spaces, theguardian.com (Sep 09, 2026) — The European Prize for Urban Public Space’s shortlist highlights projects helping people cope with climate crisis
- We’re the mayors of Paris, Milan and Phoenix. The heat crisis has us all facing the same question, Emmanuel Grégoire, Giuseppe Sala and Kate Gallego, theguardian.com (Sep 07, 2026) — Our three cities are learning from each other about how to protect residents. These climate policies are also public health measures
- Giving £2 a day to people in the Amazon helps protect rainforest, pilot project finds, theguardian.com (Oct 20, 2026)
- From Protesting To Worldmaking, Alternative Editorial (Oct 18, 2026)
- Hunter Valley community group wins landmark high court climate change case over coalmine, theguardian.com (Oct 07, 2026) — Ruling on Mount Pleasant coalmine shows ‘we cannot continue to dig up coal … and pretend the consequences have nothing to do with us’, group says
Networks and sustainability initiatives
[edit | edit source]- Sustaining Dunbar, community development trust for the Dunbar and East Linton ward. A timeline of Sustaining Dunbar’s main projects and collaborations since 2008, and some of independent organisations that they have helped establish and nurture.
CDC videos
[edit | edit source]Each week 3 different short videos from across the UK or world.
Community action/United Kingdom/Climate emergency, Community action/United Kingdom/Community involvement, Community action/United Kingdom/Food activism / ...This week's featured Global videos / ... read more about Cosmolocalism
UK and international events
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Nov 9 - 15, 2026 (Mon - Sun) — Living Wage Week, livingwage.org.uk- Nov 13, 2026 (Fri) — Kindness Day UK, Nov 13 annually, aiming to increase the value of kindness in society as well as increase the amount of kind acts that take place, making kindness a greater part in our daily life, kindnessuk.com
- Nov 15 - 21, 2026 (Sun - Sat) — Road Safety Week, brake.org.uk
- Nov 21 - 29, 2026 (Sat - Sun) — National Tree Week, The Tree Council's annual tree celebration. People across the country planting thousands of trees to mark the start of the winter tree planting season. "Trees and hedgerows are some of the most powerful tools we have in the fight against climate change.", treecouncil.org.uk
Global or international events
- Nov 05, 2026 (Thu) — Media Liberation Day, Change the Media, Change the Future, mediarevolution.org
- Nov 13, 2026 (Fri) — World Kindness Day, Nov 13, annually, highlighting good deeds in the community focusing on the positive power and the common thread of kindness for good which binds us, randomactsofkindness.org
- Nov 15, 2026 (Sun) — World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims, third Sunday in November each year, worlddayofremembrance.org
- Nov 16, 2026 (Mon) — International Day for Tolerance, Nov 16 each year, fostering respect, acceptance and appreciation of the rich diversity of our world's cultures, our forms of expression and ways of being human, unesco.org
- Nov 19, 2026 (Thu) — International Men's Day, Nov 19, annually
- Nov 27, 2026 (Fri) — Citizen Friday, actionism.space
- Nov 27 & 28, 2026 — Buy Nothing Day, en.wikipedia.org
2021-2030, UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, International community action events
East Lothian video
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Health and wellbeing
[edit | edit source]- Belhaven Community Garden on sustainingdunbar.org, "Sustaining Dunbar project to transform an area of land adjacent to Belhaven Hospital, Dunbar, into gardens where local residents, community groups, staff and patients can grow together."
Sustainable transport
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East Lothian is served by eight railway stations: East Linton (opened December 2023), Dunbar and Musselburgh on the East Coast Main Line; and North Berwick, Drem, Longniddry, Prestonpans and Wallyford on the North Berwick Line. Rail service operators which travel through and stop at stations in the area include: ScotRail on both lines; and CrossCountry and London North Eastern Railway on the East Coast Main Line.
Bus operators in East Lothian are: Lothian Buses and its subsidiary East Coast Buses, Eve Coaches of Dunbar, Prentice of Haddington and Borders Buses. East Coast Buses is the main bus service provider connecting the towns and villages of East Lothian to Edinburgh. The company has depots in North Berwick and Musselburgh.
Education for sustainability
[edit | edit source]The Scottish Seabird Centre is a marine conservation and education charity supported by an award-winning visitor attraction in North Berwick, East Lothian, Scotland. Funded by the Millennium Commission, the Centre was opened by the Duke of Rothesay in 2000. Its main attractions are interactive cameras that provide live views of wildlife on the islands of the Firth of Forth, including Bass Rock, the Isle of May, Fidra, and Craigleith. Bass Rock is home to one of the world’s largest colonies of northern gannets, with up to 100,000 birds present.
About East Lothian
[edit | edit source]East Lothian (; Scots: Aest Lowden; Scottish Gaelic: Lodainn an Ear) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland, as well as an historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area. The county was called Haddingtonshire until 1921.
In 1975, the historic county was incorporated for local government purposes into Lothian Region as East Lothian District, with some slight alterations of its boundaries. The Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 later created East Lothian as one of 32 modern council areas. East Lothian lies south of the Firth of Forth in the eastern central Lowlands of Scotland. It borders Edinburgh to the west, Midlothian to the south-west and the Scottish Borders to the south. Its administrative centre and former county town is Haddington while the largest town is Musselburgh.
See also
[edit | edit source]- UK news: UK community network news, Health and wellbeing UK news, Sustainable transport UK news, Education UK news
- Cosmolocal news: Community network news, Health and wellbeing news, Sustainable transport news, Education for sustainability news
- UK topic: Community networks UK, Health and wellbeing UK, Sustainable transport activism UK, Education for sustainability UK
- Global topic: Community networks, Health and wellbeing, Sustainable transport activism, Education for sustainability
| Authors | Phil Green |
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| License | CC-BY-SA-3.0 |
| Cite as | Phil Green (2024–2026). "Community action/East Lothian". Appropedia. Retrieved October 22, 2026. |