Edinburgh Greens

It was heartening to see the Transport Minister, Keith Brown, on his bicycle in the Evening News last week. However, it comes on top of disproportionate cuts to cycling and walking budgets.

Over the past decade Edinburgh University’s Rectors have catalysed a range of significant changes to the University. Robin Harper made the University’s excellent work on the environment a selling point. Tam Dalyell encouraged the University to invest its funds ethically and Mark Ballard and Iain Macwhirter were at the forefront of the fight against fees.

Air quality in some “hotspots” in Edinburgh is actually so poor that it is officially breaking air pollution safety standards set by the World Health Organisation

Award-winning singer-songwriter, Karine Polwart, brings her band to her first Edinburgh show for two years in this fundraiser for the Greens.  A similar event in 2010 was a massive sell-out success, so don’t miss it!  Do please tell friends, neighbours, colleagues too.  Wednesday 28 March...

Please note that there is no branch meeting in December. Our next branch meeting will be on Thursday 26th January, when we’ll be launching our campaign for the local elections in May and making final tweaks to our manifesto. The meeting will be at 7.30pm...

Here is the monthly report from your Green Edinburgh Councillors: Full Council Meeting 24th November Alternative Business Model At the full Council meeting on the 24th November there was a(nother!) debate about the first of three components of the Alternative Business Model (ABM), dealing with...

The next branch meeting will be on Thursday 24th November, where we will be discussing the draft manifesto for next May’s local elections. This is your chance to influence the content of our manifesto! The meeting will be at 7.30pm on Thursday the 24th of November...