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Carbon Conversations

Carbon-Conversations-Flyer-(June-2015)

The Himalayan Centre’s Carbon Conversations is a programme of 6 free weekly sessions that aims to support people wanting to reduce their environmental impact. We’ll be talking about what it means to be green and environmentally aware, and all complexities and practicalities this implies. By sharing our experiences, hopes and questions in a non-judgemental environment we’ll get a true sense of how each of us can contribute to a healthier, happier and greener community.

Please note participants are welcome to attend all or some sessions, and we will be giving a Carbon Literacy Certificate to those who take part in all six gatherings. The sessions are free and open to all. For more information and to book, please email victoria@himalayancentre.org or phone 078 5180 2002.

Venue Address: 121 Great Junction Street, Leith, Edinburgh, EH6 5JB

Victoria Lanata Briones
Project Worker
Himalayan Centre for Arts & Culture

M: 07851 802002      www.himalayancentre.org

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Edinburgh Council report – City Centre Public Spaces Manifesto update

(adapted from an email from Katie Swann, Partnership Development Officer)

In November 2013 the Corporate Policy and Strategy Committee approved a Review of Events Governance. One of the recommendations was that a report would be submitted to Committee, setting out a revised application and approval process for event organisers and to provide clarity about the process for other stakeholders. This process is already defined for the city’s green spaces in the Parks and Greenspaces Events Manifesto.
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City of Edinburgh proposed 20mph speed limit

(adapted from a post on Leith Links CC’s website)
In accordance with the terms of the Local Authorities’ Traffic Orders (Procedure) (Scotland) Regulations 1999, I write to inform you that the City of Edinburgh Council proposes to advertise the Traffic Regulation Order which will create zones in Edinburgh within which vehicle speeds will be limited to 20 mph at all times. Further information on the 20 mph speed limits, including a map of the 20 mph network, is available on the Council’s websites at www.edinburgh.gov.uk/20mph and www.edinburgh.gov.uk/trafficorders or at www.tellmescotland.gov.uk. If you do not have internet access you can view this information online at your local library or Neighbourhood Office.

Should you wish to submit an objection to the proposal, please do so by 26 June 2015, quoting notice reference number TRO/15/17.

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Welcome to the Edinburgh Mela

(adapted from a post on Leith Links CC’s website)

Scotland’s biggest and best celebration of world music and dance

Welcome to the Edinburgh Mela! For over twenty years we’ve been bringing outstanding world music and gorgeous international dance to Scotland’s capital city, in a joyous carnival of colour, rhythm, community celebration…and delicious food. In 2015, the Mela will run from Saturday 29 – Sunday 30 August. Planning is already underway – keep up to date with us online, for all the latest info!

www.edinburgh-mela.co.uk https://www.facebook.com/theedinburghmela https://twitter.com/EdinburghMela

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Edinburgh Fit for Walking Event 1st June

(adapted from an email from Edinburgh Council)

You are warmly invited to the launch event of the Living Street Edinburgh supporters group who plan to work with the Cockburn Association on joint campaigns to improve the public realm.

The Edinburgh – fit for walking? event will take place on Monday 1st of June 2015 at the Friends Meeting House, Victoria Street, Edinburgh. Doors open 17·45.

More info here: http://livingstreets.org.uk/edinburgh-fit-for-walking
Or contact David Spaven
Tel: 0131 447 7764
Email: david@deltix.co.uk

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Go Connect scheme

(adapted from an email from Erika Sella of the University of Edinburgh)

My department, the International Office, has been running the Go Connect scheme for a number of years. The scheme matches international students with Edinburgh families and community members to help them settle into University life, learn more about Scotland and enhance their experience of studying abroad. It is also a highly rewarding an enriching opportunity for local members of the community to learn more about different cultures and ways of life.

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Trams enquiry

(adapted from a post on Leith Links CC’s website)

The Edinburgh Tram Inquiry is currently retrieving and reviewing documents, and gathering further material as part of the investigation into the Edinburgh Trams project. As part of that process the Inquiry is now keen to hear from the public on two themes:
  1. What issues should the Inquiry be investigating in detail?
  2. What direct evidence does the public have on the consequences of the failure to deliver the project in the time, within the budget and to the extent projected?
Further details and an online survey is available via the website www.edinburghtraminquiry.org or by contacting the Secretary to the Inquiry.
The deadline for responses is 4 August 2015.
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What’s the fracking problem? (Edinburgh Active Citizenship Group Seminar 10th June)

(adapted from a post on Leith Links CC’s website)
EACG would like to invite you to our next FREE public seminar:Perspectives on the potential and consequences of fracking in Scotland


Wednesday 10th June, 7.00 – 9.00pm
City Chanbers, High Street, Edinburgh

Speakers

Andy Wightman
Writer and researcher on land, power, governance and money

Tom Pickering
Chief Operating Officer, INEOS Upstream

Maria Montinaro
Campaigner for communities

No need to book, just turn up. If you have any specific requirements, please let us know at least one week in advance.

For info contact EACG 0131 558 3545 find us on Facebook and https://edinburghactivecitizens.wordpress.com/

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Making Edinburgh Fit For Walking

(adapted from a post on Leith Links Community Council’s website)

Monday 1st June, 18.00 to 20.00 on at the Quaker Meeting House 7 Victoria Terrace, Edinburgh.

Dear Supporter

You are warmly invited to the launch event of our Edinburgh supporters’ group to discuss and perhaps get involved in making Edinburgh fit for walking on the 1st of June 2015 at the Friends meeting House, Victoria Street, Edinburgh. Doors open 17.45

We’re virtually all walkers – and in many ways Edinburgh is great city to walk in. But motor traffic continues to dominate the vast majority of the city’s streets, and pedestrians have languished at the bottom of transport priorities for far too long.

Living Streets’ Edinburgh local group is being formally launched to make the case for the enormous economic, environmental and social benefits of prioritising walking within a high-quality public realm in the capital. Come along to hear about what Living Streets stands for, how walking fits into a civilised public realm, and about the local group’s plans for an exciting late summer campaign of street audits. This is your opportunity to get involved and help us press the City of Edinburgh Council to transform its many sensible walking-related policies into practical improvements on our streets. Please join us for a discussion and debate on the way forward with the following speakers:

  •  Standing Up for Walkers, David Spaven, Convener of the Living Streets Edinburgh Group
  • A Better Public Realm, Marion Williams, Director of the Cockburn Association (Edinburgh’s Civic Trust)
  • Auditing Edinburgh’s Streets, Stuart Hay, Director of Living Streets Scotland

The meeting room will be open from 17.45, with tea, coffee and biscuits available. There will be opportunities to tell us what you think about walking in Edinburgh generally and in your own locality – and to help shape our late summer campaign.

If you need any more information, please Contact David Spaven Tel: 0131 447 7764 Email: david@deltix.co.uk. Twiter: (@LivingStreetsEd) | Web:http://www.livingstreets.org.uk/local-group/edinburgh-living-streets-group

Don’t miss this opportunity to help make Edinburgh a European exemplar of a pedestrian-friendly city!

 Thank you,

David Spaven,

Chair, Edinburgh Living Streets local group