Location
On the afternoon of Saturday, 30th July, an Energy Fair will be held in Juniper Green Parish Church. The latest alarming rise in fuel bills makes how we use and provide ourselves with electricity, gas and oil of even more urgent concern to us all. The Energy Fair offers both a chance to learn about the choices we have and to explore a vision of a better future. There will be stalls showing how communities in Edinburgh are already acting to make their energy supplies more sustainable. For individual householders there will be people offering advice and services to help reduce energy costs as well as lower our carbon footprints. There will be two talks: • The Energy Crisis – why we need to do more than cut carbon. • The Economic Opportunities for Scotland of Marine Energy Initiatives. All visitors to the Fair will be invited to contribute their own ideas and priorities on energy. There will be a brainstorming session on two topics: • What energy projects and infrastructure should be in place locally and nationally by 2020? • How can our behaviour and use of energy be modified to be more sustainable? Tea and coffee will be for sale, in aid of church funds. The organisers of the Fair, Juniper Green Community Council and Transition Edinburgh Pentlands, are grateful for aid from both the church and Mark Porteous of Juniper Green and Colinton. Gordon Macdonald MSP will open the Energy Fair. Remember to write the details in your diary: Juniper Green Energy Fair, Saturday July 30, Juniper Green Parish Church, 498 Lanark Road, EH14 5BQ, from 14.00h. Johanna Carrie, Transition Edinburgh Pentlands