http://www.sustainablehaddington.org.uk Local action on climate change and sustainable living Mon, 31 May 2010 23:09:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 http://www.sustainablehaddington.org.uk/archives/916 http://www.sustainablehaddington.org.uk/archives/916#comments Mon, 12 Apr 2010 12:17:57 +0000 Kristian Woodsend http://www.sustainablehaddington.org.uk/?p=916
Protecting the countryside and green spaces, supporting local communities, addressing our future energy needs and tackling climate change, just some of the issues likely to be debated at a special environmental ‘Question Time’ meeting in East Lothian this week (21st April), organised by RSPB Scotland and Sustainable Haddington. Voters are being offered the chance to put [...]]]> http://www.sustainablehaddington.org.uk/archives/916/feed 0 http://www.sustainablehaddington.org.uk/archives/909 http://www.sustainablehaddington.org.uk/archives/909#comments Sun, 28 Mar 2010 12:10:38 +0000 Kristian Woodsend http://www.sustainablehaddington.org.uk/?p=909
East Lothian claims top spot as global climate switch off breaks all records Six Scottish communities finish in top-ten of UK ‘lights-out’ league table The residents of a Scottish local authority area were today crowned the UK’s first unofficial ‘lights-out’ champions, by environmental charity WWF Scotland. In a UK-wide, eco-friendly competition to see which part of the [...]]]> http://www.sustainablehaddington.org.uk/archives/909/feed 1 http://www.sustainablehaddington.org.uk/archives/748 http://www.sustainablehaddington.org.uk/archives/748#comments Wed, 06 May 2009 08:27:30 +0000 Kristian Woodsend http://www.sustainablehaddington.org.uk/?p=748
The Council and the Sustainable Haddington community group have got together to welcome back the town’s swifts from their winter break in Africa by providing nesting boxes at John Muir House, Council’s HQ. To encourage swifts to breed and slow a decline in their numbers, four nesting boxes with several compartments have been placed under the [...]]]> http://www.sustainablehaddington.org.uk/archives/748/feed 0 http://www.sustainablehaddington.org.uk/archives/448 http://www.sustainablehaddington.org.uk/archives/448#comments Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:17:18 +0000 Jean Squires http://www.sustainablehaddington.org.uk/?p=448
The Sustainable Haddington community group will be joined by Iain Gray MSP, Provost Sheena Richardson and Council environment spokesman Cllr Paul McLennan at the Farmers’ Market on December 20th for the launch of the “Haddington Bag”. Supported by funding from East Lothian Council, the re-usable shopping bag is just one strand of a wider campaign to [...]]]> http://www.sustainablehaddington.org.uk/archives/448/feed 0 http://www.sustainablehaddington.org.uk/archives/82 http://www.sustainablehaddington.org.uk/archives/82#comments Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:01:07 +0000 Abbie Marland http://sustainablehaddington.org.uk/wp/?p=82
The community group Sustainable Haddington this week was celebrating the success of its £5,000 bid to the national Climate Challenge Fund. The group plans to establish a limited company with charitable status, to support and deliver projects for local action on climate change and sustainable living in the Haddington area. It has already launched [...]]]> http://www.sustainablehaddington.org.uk/archives/82/feed 0 http://www.sustainablehaddington.org.uk/archives/93 http://www.sustainablehaddington.org.uk/archives/93#comments Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:01:03 +0000 Abbie Marland http://sustainablehaddington.org.uk/wp/?p=93
Sustainable Haddington, a new community group, was formally constituted at a meeting in the Bridge Centre on Monday evening. Its main aim is to tackle climate change through positive local community action and information. Plans are already afoot to help householders reduce their energy bills – a bulk-buy discount scheme for insulation measures [...]]]> http://www.sustainablehaddington.org.uk/archives/93/feed 0