Energy

Web: https://heathack.org/

Web: https://portycommunityenergy.wordpress.com/

We are community and local energy specialists, based on Constitution Street, Edinburgh. We have been working on local and community energy projects since 2011, including electricity and heat generation, energy efficiency, carbon footprinting and net zero strategy development, amongst much else. Our aim is to deliver greater local control of energy generation and supply, allowing communities to benefit from lower energy bills, lower carbon emissions, and long-term energy security.

An informal group for residents of Willowbrae to communicate local news, events, community efforts, tips to lead a more sustainable life, crime watch, and to offer mutual aid and support. This includes a Transition Streets group and Mothers CAN group, and links to the Eco group at the local Primary School. Community efforts include activities such as hand weeding streets to prevent Council from spraying glyphosate.

As a company of Danish heritage, SAV Systems have instinctively looked towards the experiences of Denmark and its Scandinavian neighbours to introduce low carbon renewable technology solutions to the UK. Since 1988, SAV Systems has been supplying best practice technology solutions from leading technology partners to the building services industry. SAV’s mission statement has always been to “achieve optimum indoor living, with minimum energy wastage.”

BVT (Balerno Village Trust) set up an Energy Group in 2010 that eventually formed CBS Harlaw Hydro (a micro hydro community benefit coop) in 2013, which went live in 2015 and gifts surplus funds back to the BVT every year. We are currently undertaking a Net Zero CARES funded project in our 1950s community centre, with a whole host of challenges due to the condition and age of the building and the lack of volunteer time available.

Changeworks’ vision is for a world where everyone is able to live, work and enjoy life with a low-carbon impact. We recognise climate change is the most significant threat to the environment and our way of life. Changeworks has over 35 years’ experience in delivering high impact solutions for low-carbon living. We work collaboratively with partners, organisations and householders to drive transformation in energy efficiency and to tackle fuel poverty.

Architecture & Building Surveying support to the not for profit sector in aligning our built environment with our response to the various sustainability crises facing us.

Edinburgh & Lothians Regional Equality Council (ELREC), founded in 1971, is a company limited by guarantee and a registered charity made up of individual members and representatives from a wide range of organisations. ELREC is a member of the Scottish Alliance of Regional Equality Councils and has a remit to work across the areas of City of Edinburgh, East Lothian, Midlothian and West Lothian Councils. ELREC runs the Communities’ Reduce, Reuse & Recycle Project which is funded by Climate Action Fund (CAF), The National Lottery Community Fund. The aim of the project is to encourage and support BAME communities in Edinburgh to reduce waste, increase reusing and repairing and to shift to a more sustainable consumption.

Architype designs spaces that work for people and the planet. Our radical approach combines beautiful Passivhaus design with technical excellence. We keep our promises about building performance and work holistically with clients to create award-winning inspirational and healthy environments. We have roots in community projects and are moving towards full employee ownership, with over 90 co-owners working collaboratively in teams in Edinburgh, Hereford and London - with our Edinburgh team ibeing based in Leith.

​Bridgend Farmhouse is a sustainable community-owned centre for learning, eating and exercise in South Edinburgh. We aim to grow together to develop a flourishing community and place.

In summary, with our activities centred on Leith Community Croft at the NW corner of Leith Links, we connect people with each and the land/nature and promote responsible global citizenship.

Edinburgh Climate Cafe principly acts as an information providers and offers a space for people to take time and explore the various conepts, ideas and solutions in relation to climate change. We offer this mostly through street provision but also respond to information requests to attend events galas or as a supporting role to similar provision.We deliver works

Portobello based group working to reduce carbon emissions in our Community. We run a Bike and Saddle Library (including eBikes and eCargo Bikes,) we have a Community-owned Solar project and we support Equal Footing Porty to take action on local Accessibility. We organise community awareness raising events including the Sea Rising Festival, Bikefest and the Winter Sparkle on Fishwives Causeway as well as a series of events throughout the year including led rides, cycle training, bike-wash, car sharing and retrofit workshops etc.

Edinburgh Tool Library is the UK’s first tool library, promoting sharing as a way of reducing our environmental impact. We lend our members tools for DIY, gardening, decorating, and machine repair, so tool ownership is not a requirement to making. Not only does this collaborative approach make sense environmentally, it also helps our members financially. We have two wood workshops in Leith and Portobello, a dedicated repair space, a pop up location, and an electric van. We run an employability programme, a series of volunteer builds, and a residency programme for young artists. Alongside borrowing tools to use at home, our members access our workshops several times a week, usually evenings and weekends, and join us for making workshops and training. Community is central to everything we do.

The main aims of BANZAI are to:

Primarily awareness raising, community litter picks, occasional community information events and climate cafe info points

We are the city-wide collective supporting the development of resilient communities through community-led improvement of buildings, via planned maintenance, retrofit and local heat and energy systems. Edinburgh Building Retrofit and Improvement Collective empowers the local ecosystem of groups working to do these things. A community can be a tenement, a street or a neighbourhood. Working at community-scale offers many advantages and improving whole buildings gives the best results. We develop stronger and more resilient communities in the process.