Other Resources
In 2018, ELGT published the Innertube Map, a pocket-sized guide to off-street cycle paths in Edinburgh. Now, they’ve released the new innertube-map-little-france, featuring improved active travel routes.
Edinburgh City Cycleways Innertube
Edinburgh Open Green Map
Discover Green Living Sites, Nature, and Social and Cultural Resources all on the Edinburgh Green Map! You can explore and contribute to this interactive platform created by local Green Mapmakers. Help make your community greener and healthier by engaging with these valuable places and sharing your insights, ratings, and images.
Climate Outreach
Climate Outreach has a lot of excellent resources. Practical, evidence-based reports and guides across a wide variety of climate related topics and themes.
Climate Action Tracker
The Climate Action Tracker is an independent scientific project that tracks government climate action and measures it against the globally agreed Paris Agreement.
The Secret to Talking about Climate Change
Talking about climate change can be hard. This explainer video that gives you tips and tricks on how to have effective climate conversations with family and friends.
How to Design Projects that change things for the better
Shifting Normal uses the Individual, Social and Material model of understanding how behaviour change happens to guide the design of more successful community projects.
Access support from your Local Authority
There are many benefits for community groups to work closely with their Local Authority. Have a look at this very helpful guide to establishing successful partnership working and the ‘top tips‘ summary.
How to write an impactful message
As people who communicate progressive ideas, we have to think about how we present the facts, the powerful stories & the policies we advocate if we want to persuade people effectively.
Start a Climate Café
A Climate Café is an open, inclusive space for people to get together to talk and act on climate change. They are informal, everyone is welcome to join the conversation and get involved.
Climate Transition in your Community
The Essential Guide to Doing Transition. It is an invaluable guide for any community group that is just getting going and wants to re-imagine and rebuild our world from the bottom up.
Community Climate Adaptation Routemap
In March 2023 Adaptation Scotland published a practical guide for communities to adapt to climate change.
Retrofit your sash & case windows
In this quick-start guide for homeowners, learn how to retrofit existing historic sash & case windows to improve thermal performance, save energy and reduce carbon emissions.
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