Community action/East Lothian
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| Location | East Lothian, Scotland |
| Coordinates | 55° 54' 56.87" N, 2° 45' 4.30" W |
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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Denmark’s three-day democracy festival that attracts over 65,000, electoral-reform.org.uk (Jul 30, 2026) - The five quick wins to the Land Reform challenge in Scotland [Community Land Scotland], Daily Alternative (Jul 29, 2026)
- How to make the sun shine at night, Craig Dalzell, commonweal.scot (Jul 16, 2026) — Upcoming battery technology may well finally eliminate the last disadvantage of renewable energy and turn what has been an intermittent power source into a fully dispatchable one.
- UK government ‘irresponsible’ for not publishing emergency drought plans, theguardian.com (Aug 17, 2026)
- Thom Yorke, Romy and Brian Eno among 200 musicians urging PM to reject new North Sea drilling, theguardian.com (Aug 17, 2026)
- Extreme heat more dangerous for people 60 and over than previously thought, theguardian.com (Aug 17, 2026)
- European farmers face ‘unprecedented crisis’ after successive heatwaves, theguardian.com (Aug 17, 2026)
- Europe’s rivers are running dry, and the knock-on effects are disastrous, Yiannis Baboulias, theguardian.com (Aug 05, 2026)
- How Australia combines modern tech and Indigenous knowledge to fight wildfires, BBC News (Aug 01, 2026)
- Canada Bets Big on Hydro and Wind Power, insideclimatenews.org (Aug 17, 2026)
- European farmers face ‘unprecedented crisis’ after successive heatwaves, theguardian.com (Aug 17, 2026)
- ‘Living proof damaged landscapes can recover’: exploring a vast restored forest in southern Sweden, theguardian.com (Aug 13, 2026)
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/Manchester, Community action/Essex, Community action/West Sussex / ...This week's featured Global videos / ... read more about Cosmolocalism
UK and international events
[edit | edit source]UK events
Aug 10 - 16, 2026 (Mon - Sun) — National Allotments Week, 2026 theme is “Grow to Learn.”, thenas.org.uk
Global or international events
- Aug 09, 2026 (Sun) — International Day of the World's Indigenous People, observed on 9 August each year to raise awareness and protect the rights of the world's indigenous population, un.org
- Aug 12, 2026 (Wed) — International Youth Day, awareness day designated by the United Nations taking place on Aug 12 each year, un.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, that is supported by an award-winning visitor attraction in North Berwick, East Lothian, Scotland. Opened by the Duke of Rothesay in 2000 and funded by the Millennium Commission. The showpiece of the centre is the interactive live cameras out to the wildlife on the Firth of Forth islands, including Bass Rock, Isle of May, Fidra and Craigleith. The Bass Rock is 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 | Philralph (2024–2026). "Community action/East Lothian". Appropedia. Retrieved August 21, 2026. |