Sustaining Dunbar

Do you live in Innerwick or Spott areas?

SueGuy — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:45:50 +0000

Dunbar and District = Ward 7

You are invited to an open meeting in Innerwick Village Hall Tuesday March 9th or Spott Village Hall Wed. March 10th. Come along and have your say about what you want your area to be like by 2025! All ages welcome.
The 2025 Mapping and Action Planning Project Team is out and about gathering your views and ideas regarding: home energy efficiency, accessibility to local food, public transport and employment. The meetings will start at 7pm. We will feedback the local survey findings so far and enable you to record your views and ideas for making your area an even better place to live in by 2025. For more information please contact Susan Guy 01368 866 920

2025 M.A.P Project: Local Survey in and around Spott

SueGuy — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:31:10 +0000

Innerwick 2025 Summary
This is a summary report of the most frequently recorded views and ideas from a local survey regarding home energy, access to local food, transport and employment. Contact Susan Guy 01368 866 920 for more information.

Start your day with a pick-me-up

Morag — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:20:15 +0000

Want to reduce your carbon footprint and save money? Tripshare East Lothian is a free journey matching service to put you in touch with people going the same way as you. You can register regular commutes to work or occasional trips away, and the website allows you to search for other members who are doing similar journeys at similar times. There are already 60 members in Dunbar and 530 in East Lothian, but the more people that join in, the more chance you have of finding a matching journey. So tell your friends!

TripshareEastLothian is part of the UK’s National liftshare network.

One Planet Hustings!

philip — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 22:09:57 +0000

One Planet Hustings!
Wednesday April 21st, 7.00 pm
Haddington Townhouse
Come and put your questions on climate change, energy, and sustainable living to our East Lothian Westminster candidates.
Chaired by environment journalist & broadcaster Louise Batchelor
Hosted by the RSPB and Sustainable Haddington, Free event – all welcome

Earth Hour

SueGuy — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 11:55:16 +0000

Last year 380 Dunbar and District families turned off their lights for Earth Hour. This year let’s beat our record!
At 8:30pm Saturday 27th March turn off your lights for an hour.
Map where you live and tell us what you did without electricity for an hour!
Click “Continue Reading this post” to edit the Map, Enter your post code, choose your marker and save.

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Leave the car at home?

Morag — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:35:48 +0000

Sustaining Dunbar presents an evening discussion on transport options for the future, on SATURDAY 27 FEBRUARY at 7PM in the GIBB ROOM, DUNBAR LIBRARY. There will be a short documentary which questions whether we can keep on driving as oil prices rise, followed by a chance to air your thoughts on how we can make Dunbar a better place for people on foot, bikes, buses and trains

The discussion will be followed at 8.30pm by a meeting of Sustaining Dunbar’s Transport Group which has been working for two years to improve walking, cycling and public transport in and around Dunbar.

Woodchip fired District Heating Study

philip — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:03:25 +0000

We are delighted to have had confirmation from Community Energy Scotland of funding for a feasibility study into retrofitting a woodchip fired district heating system into the 15 properties at Hallhill Steading. We have now appointed On-Site Generation as consultants to undertake this study. The study will also assess the viability of setting up a community owned energy supply company to run the installation and sell heat to the residents, the options for setting up a local woodchip supply chain as well as producing a more general toolkit for us and other communities to use to assess the viability of retrofitting biomass district heating in different situations. For more information on the project read the Feasibility brief Hallhillv1.

Peak Oil Hits the News

philip — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:14:57 +0000

From being completely below the radar, Peak Oil is suddenly hitting the news. The Industry Taskforce on Peak Oil and Energy Security, which comprises such companies as Virgin, Stagecoach, Scottish and Southern and Arup, has just published its latest report, ‘The Oil Crunch’, warning of shortages and price spikes by 2015. For examples of press coverage read Richard Branson here: UK Press Association , Jeremy Legget here: Guardian Report or see the full report here: The Oil Crunch -a wake up call for the UK economy.

Money, Money, Money

philip — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:19:49 +0000

Film and Discussion evening, Wednesday 10th February, 7.30pm, Dunbar Library.

We will be showing the film ‘Money as Debt’ (http://moneyasdebt.net/) , discussing the role that our current money system plays in trapping us in an unsustainable economic system, the potential for launching a Dunbar Pound and for setting up a local bank/credit union. All Welcome.

Climate Change Denial

philip — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:39:08 +0000

If you are getting confused with all the news being generated by the Climate Change Deniers just now, you could do worse than take a look at Rob Hopkin’s blog at: http://transitionculture.org/2010/02/01/a-review-of-climate-cover-up-by-james-hoggan/