Last Call 📢 We are on the lookout for food & drink stallholders to feed the many visitors attending this year's festival 🌳 If you feel up to the challenge of creating a sustainably led vegetarian / vegan menu then we would love to hear from you! 🌍🌮☕🥗 Get in touch now!

A great day for Retrofit Rover at the weekend, in very #community-minded & lovely Stockbridge Colonies. Lots of interest in #EnergyEfficiency & #Retrofit. Sowed seeds of collaborative group work: for economies of scale, better results, wider access, reduced individual burden etc.

Coming up this Saturday! Celebrate / join the movement for group collaborative #community-led building #EnergyEfficiency #retrofit and improvement in #Edinburgh. #WinWin Friendly, informative, with refreshments (and it finishes before 'certain sporting events' start!)

We are happy to confirm that EdinBRIC will be at the Festival this June! Come and see the Retrofit Rover, their cargo-bike-portable, roll-up, pop-up retrofit roadshow. Join them for a chat and to ask any questions you may have! 🚲 🏘️ #edinburghclimatefestival #edinburgh

Remember - this free event is tomorrow, Saturday 25/05, 12:30 - 14:30 at St Columba's by the Castle (Lower Hall), at the top of Johnstone terrace. Friendly, informal, informative - with food 😉 See you there! #Edinburgh #EnergyEfficiency #Retrofit

Head along for insight, education and ideas on building retrofit and improvement from EALA Impacts CIC (our professional partners).

Have externally organised retrofit works on your building affected wellbeing? How will owners'/tenants' voices, wellbeing & social justice be considered in at scale retrofit projects? Been in this situation? Please consider this MSc survey by end June: uofg.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_d3…

Come and talk on Sat pm about home energy retrofit and building improvement (by Wellbeing area). Multiple advantages of collective community-led action (economies of scale, better work, accessibility to more people, resilience - as well as warmer, healthier, lower carbon homes).

FYI: tomorrow evening - online 'Community Retrofit Event!' from ACAN! (ACAN!) "A hybrid event bringing together several community retrofit projects to share their wealth of experience." eventbrite.co.uk/e/community-re…

Free webinar with Climate Scientist and DIY-er Ben Richards on transforming his family home in Paisley for improved comfort, cost and carbon emissions. 7pm Thursday 18th July Register at retr.fit/qx44

Another interesting online individual retrofit case study via Loco Home Retrofit

Tune in on Thursday evening for details of a real-world individual home retrofit journey.

What challenges do you face in relation to the energy retrofit of historic buildings? We want to hear from you! Take this survey to share your experience – docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… This is part of the European FuturHist project, which aims to develop retrofit solutions.

We are joining with over 130 organisations, calling on Scottish Government to place wellbeing and sustainable development at the heart of policy making in Scotland by backing Sarah Boyack MSP’s Members’ Bill. #WellbeingEconomy bit.ly/4epaLpG

New! BANZAI #Community Cargo Bike Library 🚴‍♀️ Free launch event: Bruntsfield Links (nr Leamington Terr) Sat 26/10, 2-5pm. Bike trials🚲, refreshments🫖🧁, Halloween kids activities🎃. Support Cargo Bike Movement, Critical Mass Edinburgh. Funds The City of Edinburgh Council @EdinburghCCAN. #Edinburgh

Polycrisis conversations: community meetings to consider crises in modern industrial society. Starts 8pm 13/11 A short film with conversation between knowledgeable, passionate & articulate people; then share questions, reflections & feelings. eventbrite.co.uk/e/conversation… #Edinburgh

We're taking the #Xit to #BlueSkyApp to escape the increasing pollution around here. We'll post there primarily, as @edinbric.bsky.social in future. Some notices etc may be duplicated here at times👋.