Music, song, rhyme, storytelling, walks, land art and sculpture, Green Woodworking, refreshments and more…

11.30am Childrens fairy trail, hunting hidden riddles and rhymes in the woods, 12.30pm Guided spring flower, poetry and music walks, 1.30 Free performance stage through the afternoon -an eclectic mix of music plus Renga poetry workshop and magical storytelling

ALL DAY Free Green Woodworking Demonstration and ‘Have a Go’ with Brotus Crafts /Sow tree seeds / Refreshments

…….by hill plough and burn, in straight road and close to coast, sea and safe harbour.

Get cozy for Earth Hour 2010!

East Lothian came first in the UK and beat London by 4998 sign-ups!!

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Sustaining Dunbar is holding its first AGM on Monday 22nd March at 7.30pm in the back room of The Rocks Hotel in Marine Road, Dunbar (EH42 1AR).The evening will mainly be a social event, a chance to meet other Sustaining Dunbar members and the staff of our funded projects, to find out more about what is going on with allotments, the bakery, BeGreen, 2025, community owned renewables, sustainable transport etc. and to share your ideas as to how we can make the Dunbar area into a vibrant and sustainable re-localised community.

The formal part of the meeting will be to approve our accounts and annual report 2009, elect directors to the Board and to approve a change to our constitution to do away with a membership subscription.

Our current board members are: Mark Huxham, Jo McNamara, Paul McLennan, Barbara Richerby, Jacquie Bell, Liz McLean and Sarah Wall. Two of these directors (to be decided) will be stepping down and seeking re-election, as required by our constitution. Any member is free to put themselves forward to be a director -so please don’t be shy if you would like to stand. We can have up to seven elected directors, and the board can then co-opt up to three more if they wish.

If you are not officially a member, please do sign up. Membership is open to anyone eligible to vote in the Dunbar and East Linton Ward and, unless members vote otherwise at the AGM, will be free from now on.  To join, fill in the membership form.

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.

We currently have 26 volunteer facilitators knocking on doors around the Dunbar and East Linton area, carrying out a survey regarding local: food, energy, transport and employment -potentially interviewing up to 1000 local people. You are invited to their report back session at 3pm on Thursday 28th January at Hallhill HealthyLiving Centre. All Welcome.

We will be holding further report back sessions as part of a series of ‘2025 roadshows’ around the area in the coming weeks -watch this space.

Wednesday 20th January, 7.30pm, Gibb Room, Dunbar Library  -Free, all welcome.

Compiled from footage sent in by over 100 Transition Initatives from around the world, this film shows how a diverse movement of communities are responding creatively and pro-actively to peak oil and climate change, seeing them as an historic opportunity to build the world anew.

Pete Postlethwaite stars – ‘A Deeply Inconvenient Kick Up The Backside, you’d be stupid to miss it’ -News of the World.

Want to find out more about effective composting, save money and help our environment? Following the success of our first workshop Isobel Knox Master Composter will be holding a further composting workshop Wednesday  evening, 9th December in the BeGreen shop 7.30pm-9pm. The work shop is FREE. To book a place please contact Shiela on 01368-863720