Edinburgh community activism news

• Why the Arthur’s Seat burn is a cautionary tale for the UK’s wildfire management strategy, theconversation.com (Aug 19, 2025)
• Welcome to the Edinburgh Open Workshop—“we cater to you if noise or mess is your jam!”, Daily Alternative (May 12, 2025)
• How growing and foraging food can become a common part of cities, theconversation.com (Apr 24, 2025)
• Building a better future one community at a time in Portobello, Edinburgh [Bella Caledonia], Daily Alternative (Mar 25, 2025)
• The bakery that offers pay-as-you-can-afford bread, positive.news (Feb 18, 2025)

• 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)
• 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)
• Making an exhibition of yourself: the gallery where anyone can add to the walls, positive.news (Jun 04, 2024)
• 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
• The Real Front Line, Alternative Editorial (Feb 04, 2024)
• The community buyout projects leading Scotland’s self-help revolution, theguardian.com (Jan 01, 2024)

• Garden transferred to community ownership, grantoncommunitygardeners.org (Nov 30, 2023)
• Self-driving buses that go wherever you want? How the UK is trying to revolutionise public transport, theconversation.com (Sep 29, 2023)
• 'This could be the holy grail to replace palm oil' - research team, BBC News (Sep 18, 2023)
• I Rode the World's First Autonomous Public Bus Service, cnet.com (May 18, 2023)
• Edinburgh is a hotbed of community self-empowerment - with the Edinburgh Tool Library showing the way, The Daily Alternative (Mar 14, 2023)

• 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

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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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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