ecoartscotland will be in residence in the Tent space at Edinburgh College of Art, during the week 6-10 March 2012. Art, Space Nature students and staff have worked with ecoartscotland to develop a programme of discussions and events during the week: Tuesday 6 March16.00-17.30 Discussion on the Ecology of the ...

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Images: by Kirsty Ward The Big Shed, a new-build community owned building in Highland Perthshire, has an Art Space availablefor hire. The space would generally be suited to Artists working with clean media: Digitalfilm/photography, textiles, weaving, leather-work, jewelry, small scale painting and printing, model-makers, illustrators, poets, writers, collaborators, performance, sound ...

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Norma Macleod writes: We are a new group to building....have planted trees and run a domestic cooked-food composting scheme using the "rocket" composter. We have planning permission to build a2-level community space in the Irvine Bay area of North Ayrshire. We would like to use as much recycled material as ...

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SEDA member Linda Forbes writes to tell us that one of her fellow CAT MSc alumni, Magnus, is currently working in Pakistan with the Department for International Development, where he is trying to build-up relationships between students in the UK and the local architecture students in Pakistan who are really ...

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4 April, 2012, 6pm, The Royal Society of Edinburgh - FREE event Speaker: Mr Tim Flannery, mammalogist, palaeontologist, environmentalist and global warming activist. Tim Flannery is one of Australia s leading thinkers and writers. As a scientist, explorer and conservationist his achievements are many. Amongst them are the discovery of ...

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Wednesday 22nd February, Edinburgh Napier University / Institute for Sustainable Construction, Colinton Road (follow the signs for Edinburgh Napier University the Building Performance Centre). The meeting room is upstairs on the second floor. We have a lot to talk about when we next meet as we were unable to get ...

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SEDA Steering Group member, Chris Morgan (Locate Architects) will be among those speaking at the Solid Wall Insulation Conference, Friday 20th April 2012, Edinburgh Exploring barriers, solutions and new approaches to insulating Scottish solid masonry wallsAs the Green Deal and Energy Company Obligation (ECO) approach, there is an increasing focus ...

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Scotland s 2009 emissions fell three per cent below the 2010 target according to the report of the Committee on Climate Change (CCC). Full article: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/News/Releases/2012/01/climatechange31012012

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Skills Development Scotland is currently operating a low carbon skills fund. Applications are still being accepted up to 31st March 2012. The Low Carbon Skills Fund gives Scottish businesses with up to 250 employees the opportunity to apply for up to 12,500 towards employee training costs. It provides funding for ...

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Date/time: Wednesday 15th February 2012, 6 - 8pm Venue: Edinburgh Napier University, 42 Colinton Road, Edinburgh Cost: FREE This event will demonstrate how new low carbon technologies offer a viable way forward to deliver commercial and environmental benefits. It will also consider the practical aspects of integrating distributed CHP technologies ...

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