Chas Booth is the Green Councillor for Leith Ward.
Chas has lived in Leith for more than 5 years. He works part-time in Leith as a fuel poverty and energy saving campaigner with a small not-for-profit trade association. In that role he is a member of the Scottish Government’s fuel poverty forum, a member of the steering group of the Existing Homes Alliance Scotland and a member of the Stop Climate Chaos Scotland policy group.
Chas previously worked at Friends of the Earth Scotland, where he led campaigns for fairer planning laws, for a strong Scottish Climate Change Act and for support for small-scale renewables. Prior to that he worked for Sustrans Scotland, the sustainable transport charity. He also taught English in post-war Bosnia in 1997 and in Bavaria during 1998 and 1999.
In his spare time, Chas is a volunteer director of local charity Greener Leith, where he is leading efforts to bring a community-owned wind turbine to Seafield. Chas is also a director of Edinburgh-based bike recycling charity and social enterprise The Bike Station and is also active in the Splashback! campaign to save Leith Waterworld.
Chas was born near Lincoln but moved to Scotland with his parents at the age of 8 and settled here. He went to school near Huntly, Aberdeenshire and in Musselburgh. He graduated MA (Hons) in Social Policy and Politics from the University of Edinburgh in 1996.
When not campaigning, Chas is a keen touring cyclist and once cycled a 3-speed bike from Augsburg, Germany to Edinburgh. He lives in Leith with his civil servant wife and young daughter.
Contact
See Chas’s contact details, including surgery times, on the Council website here.
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