http://edubuzz.org/blogs/sustaininghaddington Just another Edubuzz.org weblog Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:43:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There will be a General Meeting on 29th September, 7 pm in the Bridge Centre, Haddington, to approve (hopefully!) the Constitution for the Steering Group. The purpose of the Steering Group will be to work towards setting up Sustainable Haddington as a company limited by guarantee and a register it as a charity.  Constituting the Steering ... http://edubuzz.org/blogs/sustaininghaddington/2008/09/16/evening-constitutional/ O2 Energy Saver Project We are delighted that O2 have chosen us for their energy saver project.  We will be organising a meeting of everyone involved at the end of September, surveying the properties should start in October, and the work should be done by November...so a lower fuel bills and ... http://edubuzz.org/blogs/sustaininghaddington/2008/09/11/50/   We discussed the Haddington Bag (known to its friends as the Hadbag), and the O2/Energy Saving Trust Community Insultation project, as well as possible ideas for fundraising.  We decided to try and put in an application for the Energy Saver Project, despite the tight deadline.  Following the meeting, Jean put out ... http://edubuzz.org/blogs/sustaininghaddington/2008/07/25/july-meeting/ The next meeting of Sustaining Haddington will be at the Bridge Centre on Tuesday 24th June. At this meeting we hope to decide on some positive action we can take over the summer. Hopefully this will be where we go from Climate Change Discussion to Climate Change Action. Anyone ... http://edubuzz.org/blogs/sustaininghaddington/2008/06/21/decision-meeting-24-june-730-bridge-centre/ For the stall at Haddington Communities Day we made a display showing the food miles of various bits of fruit and veg. It was a strange experience going round Tesco's deliberately buying things that had come a long way! The potatoes were particularly surprising - there were some ... http://edubuzz.org/blogs/sustaininghaddington/2008/06/21/haddington-communities-day/ We showed An Inconvenient Truth as planned in the Bridge Centre - Haddington's newest film venue. At the start there was a slight high whiny noise from the equipment. "Was it Al Gore?" some wag asked when I mentioned this later. No. Al Gore went carefully through ... http://edubuzz.org/blogs/sustaininghaddington/2008/06/07/al-gore-film/ We did, amazingly considering the timescale, manage to get a stall together for the Haddington Festival. It consisted of several saplings and a wormery, both kindly lent by Haddington Infant School, loads and loads of relevant leaflets, and a flock of penguins protesting against climate change. Apart from some ... http://edubuzz.org/blogs/sustaininghaddington/2008/06/07/haddington-festival-stall/ Sustaining Haddington has got a new name for its website. We are now at www.sustaininghaddington.org.uk - actually it will bring you straight back here! But it's a slightly more memorable name which we thought might help people get in touch. (Thanks to freedigitalphotos for the picture) http://edubuzz.org/blogs/sustaininghaddington/2008/05/11/new-website/ Showing at the Bridge Centre, 7.30 pm, 27 May 2008 The vast majority of the world's scientists think that our home is heading for ecological catastrophe if we go on heating it like we have been. Al Gore set out to convince the vast majority of the world's population that ... http://edubuzz.org/blogs/sustaininghaddington/2008/05/05/the-inconvenient-truth/ Many thanks to Lorraine MacCauley from SEAD for coming out to Haddington to run the climate change workshop. Thanks also to everyone who came out. Lorraine had us think about the causes of climate change, and what is already happening because of it. A short film, The ... http://edubuzz.org/blogs/sustaininghaddington/2008/04/23/next-steps/