Edinburgh Farmers' Market. March 2008. Attribution: Renata Edge

Keep updated with, and share the latest news from, about and of interest to community agency networks (CANs) and community groups' activism for climate, environment and many other sustainability topics across Edinburgh.

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  • News SPRING: From its ambition to create an "urban croft" (or food producer) in the heart of Leith, Earth In Common is becoming a powerful CAN, Daily Alternative (Nov 21, 2024)
  • News SPRING: “We radically re-imagine the piano in today’s throw away culture”. Edinburgh’s Pianodrome is the essence of a circular economy, Daily Alternative (Aug 28, 2024)
  • News Making an exhibition of yourself: the gallery where anyone can add to the walls, positive.news (Jun 04, 2024)
  • News Edinburgh Council bans advertising for fossil fuel companies, airlines, airports, fossil-powered cars, SUVs, cruise ships and arms manufacturers on council-owned advertising spaces, badverts.org (May 29, 2024) — across England, one-third of local authorities now have some form of restrictions on harmful advertising
  • News The Real Front Line, Alternative Editorial (Feb 04, 2024)
  • News The community buyout projects leading Scotland’s self-help revolution, theguardian.com (Jan 01, 2024)

2022-2023[edit | edit source]

  • News Garden transferred to community ownership, grantoncommunitygardeners.org (Nov 30, 2023)
  • News 'This could be the holy grail to replace palm oil' - research team, BBC News (Sep 18, 2023)
  • News Edinburgh is a hotbed of community self-empowerment - with the Edinburgh Tool Library showing the way, The Daily Alternative (Mar 14, 2023)
  • News When Edinburgh's Canongate community resisted a crass urban development, they deployed a "working-class cosmopolitanism", The Daily Alternative (Jul 28, 2022)
  • News More flowers, fewer cars: the rewilders turning parking spaces into parks, The Guardian (Jun 22, 2022) — Across the UK and Europe, the ‘parklet’ movement is gaining pace, transforming dead spaces where cars used to be into pockets of green

2016-2021[edit | edit source]

2025 vision for George Street unveiled, Feb 24, 2021...[1]

  • Edinburgh University divests from all fossil fuels, Feb 6, 2018...[2]
  • Every town needs a remakery, Mar 15, 2017...[3]
  • Final route for new Edinburgh cycle path given go-ahead, Dec 17, 2016...
  • Edinburgh Tool Library: Creativity, Community, and Cutting Resource Use, February 8, 2016...[4]

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2014-2015[edit | edit source]

Edinburgh's new Food Assembly launches in Leith, October 19, 2015...[1]

  • Community-owned solar panels to be installed in 25 Council buildings throughout Edinburgh. May 25, 2015...[2]
  • MSPs Mounted Electric Bikes to Launch eCycle - Edinburgh Colleges' and Universities' Green Transport Initiative, March 31, 2015...
  • Campaigners hail Edinburgh's 20mph speed limit plan, March 11, 2015...[3]
  • Edinburgh Trams passenger service to begin May 31, 2014[4]

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