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Last Saturday, Greener Leith helped to organise the Leith Feeder ride for the Pedal on Parliament protest. The day dawned sunny, if a bit chilly, a...

The council team managing the extensive improvements taking place on the Shore have circulated a new update on progress of the works.  Work ha...

Following some excellent research by SPOKES, that showed that problems with bike storage in tenements is a significant barrier that stops more peop...

Following our recent post on whether the percieved dangers of pavement cyclists matched up to the statistics, Keith Irving from Living Streets Scot...

Have you not seen? Have you not heard? A beautiful, electric-diesel, retro-chic low carbon hybrid bus is here in Leith! Lothian Buses&nbs...

Some Greener Leith members have very long memories. And for as long as our collective memory goes back, we've always been told that it would be imp...

  A version of this comment piece by Chair of Greener Leith, Charlotte Encombe, was originally published on STV Edinburgh on Thursday. On Frid...

Sue McKichan has done a fabulous job putting together this map of Edinburgh bike repair shops. Sue volunteers for the innertube map project, which ...

Emma Quayle is a local sound artist who has featured on this blog before with Emily, when together they made a podcast about going bird watching in...

On Sunday 12th June over 500 people took part in the Edinburgh Innertube Map Postcode Challenge. The 'treasure hunt on wheels' helped to publicise ...

The City of Edinburgh Council is consulting on proposals to improve the traffic calming measures on MacDonald Road. Here's why the council say they...

The City of Edinburgh Council has launched an online consultation to find out what it can do to improve its response to bad winter weather. After l...

It's been a long time coming, but after a vote at Thursdays Leith Neighbourhood Partnership Housing and Built Environment Sub-group Committee, fund...

There's a lot of talk in the press today about the Bike Station's new Innertube map. They've taken a very stylised approach to illustrating the who...

The photo above shows the crowd that assembled when we held a commuters breakfast event in June last year, when more than 60 people stopped to for ...

This guest post was written by Edinburgh University Graduate, Drummond Gilbert, who has recently set up goCarShare.com - a website that takes a soc...

On the SPOKES website, there are details of an opportunity for citizens of Edinburgh to 'piggy back' on the back of a City of Edinburgh Council ten...

Yesterday, the Government announced news that Edinburgh and Glasgow are to share in a £20million fund designed to promote the installation of...

The City of Edinburgh Council has just released details of a confirmed plan to upgrade the existing cycle/pedestrian path running from Easter Road ...

It seems that some Leithers have decided that skiis are currently the best way to get across Leith Links to the shops. But whilst this years "unpre...

On Saturday 30th October, while some of you were enjoying a Greener Leith bike ride to Crammond, some other volunteers gave up their Saturday ...

This week saw the release of a report to the City of Edinburgh Council on the latest "tram situation." According to the short briefing from TIE, th...

It's National Car Share Week this week. To celebrate, Liftshare held a competition to see who could make the best car sharing video. And here is th...

Last week, the Housing and Built Environment Sub-group meeting of the Leith Neighbourhood Partnership agreed thousands of pounds to take forwards l...

As you can see, we had a fantastic turn-out to our August We Love Leith Bike Ride. Each month we've been meeting at 10.30am on the last Saturday of...

On Thursday the 26th of August, Greener Leith was lucky enough to be invited to a Charrette (that's a workshop in Architect speak) organised by the...

We couldn't make it to the 'Zero Carbon Scotland' session at the Festival of Politics yesterday, so we're delighted that prolific Edinburgh blogger...

We're pleased to announce our next We Love Leith bike ride will be on Saturday August the 28th. Our last, "Gormley hunt" bike ride was so much fun,...

The Bike Station are running a new cycle challenge in August, that aims to build on the success of their Workplace challenge that got loads of peop...

Steps to make the Shore a more appealing place for locals and visitors alike, took a big step forwards yesterday when the City of Edinburgh Council...