Keep updated with, and share the latest news from, about and of interest to community action networks (CANs) and community groups across Edinburgh.
The Real Front Line, Alternative Editorial (Feb 04, 2024) - The community buyout projects leading Scotland’s self-help revolution, theguardian.com (Jan 01, 2024)
2023[edit | edit source]
- Garden transferred to community ownership, grantoncommunitygardeners.org (Nov 30, 2023)
- 'This could be the holy grail to replace palm oil' - research team, BBC News (Sep 18, 2023)
- Edinburgh is a hotbed of community self-empowerment - with the Edinburgh Tool Library showing the way, The Daily Alternative (Mar 14, 2023)
2022[edit | edit source]
- When Edinburgh's Canongate community resisted a crass urban development, they deployed a "working-class cosmopolitanism", The Daily Alternative (Jul 28, 2022)
- 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
2021[edit | edit source]
2025 vision for George Street unveiled, Feb 24[1]
2018[edit | edit source]
Edinburgh University divests from all fossil fuels, Feb 6[2]
2017[edit | edit source]
Every town needs a remakery, Mar 15[3]
2016[edit | edit source]
Final route for new Edinburgh cycle path given go-ahead, Dec 17
Edinburgh Tool Library: Creativity, Community, and Cutting Resource Use, February 8[4]
2015[edit | edit source]
Edinburgh's new Food Assembly launches in Leith, October 19[5]
Community-owned solar panels to be installed in 25 Council buildings throughout Edinburgh. May 25[6]
MSPs Mounted Electric Bikes to Launch eCycle - Edinburgh Colleges' and Universities' Green Transport Initiative, March 31
Campaigners hail Edinburgh's 20mph speed limit plan, March 11[7]
2014[edit | edit source]
Edinburgh Trams passenger service to begin May 31, 2014[8]
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