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Stay warm and save money this winter with PEDAL’s free energy saving guide

tom — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 17:04:31 +0000

PEDAL has produced a guide to saving energy at home, written by energy experts and available on-line and in paper copy. The booklet answers some frequently asked questions and suggests a range of ways you can make your home more …

Get your Porty branded T-shirts!

Chris Booth — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 20:40:37 +0000

A must-have for Porty fans near and far!

Price £12.50 for adults, £9 for kids.

We have 2 styles both made from Fairtrade cotton, I Love Porty and our popular Home Sweet Home design complete with grid co-ordinates for Porty …

Exciting dates for your diary!

justin — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 15:37:26 +0000

Saturday Aug 27th 2–30-4.30 — Local Currency Event

Join us at Old Parish Church Hall, Belfield Street, to discuss how to get an Edinburgh-wide local currency in place by this time next year (for more information, scroll down to the …

PEDAL AGM and Creating our Future Now! event

jane — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 22:14:45 +0000

Over 50 local people crammed into the Baptist Church Hall on Thursday 18^th June for the PEDAL AGM and Creating our Future Now! event. Many left proudly wearing their new hot off the press PEDAL t-shirts (available from the …

Portobello’s new must have fashion item!

jane — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 21:40:45 +0000

The new PEDAL t-shirts have arrived.

You may have noticed certain people about town wearing a stylish looking t-shirt with cryptic lattitude and longitude co-ordinates and the PEDAL logo. Have you yet worked out what it all means? (Comments below …

Blow me! An urban wind farm

Chris Booth — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 14:29:43 +0000

Great piece on the STV news about our proposed turbine. Also the Evening News has a story on the wind turbine plans. (Thanks to all who’ve registered their support on the Energyshare site — we currently have 227 supporters, and …

Invitation to PEDAL’s 2011 AGM and ‘Creating the Future Now!’ session

tom — Thu, 26 May 2011 00:34:25 +0000

When: 7.30–9.30pm, Thursday 16^th June 2011

Where: Portobello Baptist Church Hall, 185 Portobello High Street (next to the Portobello Bar).

Despite recent funding disappointments, PEDAL continues to go from strength to strength — progressing existing projects, initiating new ones …

What did PEDAL do last year?

tom — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 22:38:50 +0000

As you may have heard, PEDAL didn’t get funding for the projects we hoped to run this coming year, but we thought you’d like to know what we have achieved over the past year!

In an action packed year to …

Disappointing News

charlotte — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 12:55:00 +0000

Unfortunately we have just heard that PEDAL’s bid for Climate Challenge Funding for the coming year was unsuccessful. The current funding ran from last April to the end of March this year, and despite this year’s projects meeting and exceeding …

A community building conflict resolution group?

justin — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 08:45:59 +0000

PEDAL’s purpose is to support our community to build social, economic and ecological resilience. Even if we manage to establish all the infrastructure needed to ensure our children are fed and warm when food and fuel prices go through the …