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ECRF - Sustainable Wellness
Cycling, Health and Wellbeing, Sustainability, Travel, Weekend adventures

Glencoe in a day – Part 2!

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Reading Time: 6 minutes  And WE’RE BACK!   SO – if you read the last installment .. Jenny and I have just cycled over the beautiful Glen Ogle viaduct. Carrying on the route 7 we sped down a steep hill …which then turned into a muddy track into the woods … 10 minutes …

Plastics, Reduce Re-use Recycle, Sustainability, Volunteering

Great British Beach Clean – The Results!

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Reading Time: 2 minutesBack in September a group from the Edinburgh CRF took part in the Great British Beach Clean (you can read all about it here: blogs.ed.ac.uk/sustainable-wellness) The Marine Conservation Society have now released the results and they make for some interesting reading.  I have picked out a few key facts to …

Edinburgh Community Food, Food, Health and Wellbeing

Edinburgh Community Food Newsletter … and new meals!

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ECF is the organisation that provides the fresh fruit and veg stall in the hospitals.  See ECF Newsletter for their Christmas news.  Their Take and Make meal kits have been really successful – over 5000 sold to date, and a lot of them to CRF staff!  They have launched two new meals – a korma and a vegetarian shepherd’s pie with sweet potato mash.  Why not try them out and let us know?

Cycling

Spokes Public Meeting – New Cycling Solutions

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Reading Time: < 1 minuteFriday 15 November 2019 – 1930 hrs – Augustine United Church, George IV Bridge. A chance to hear from people and organisations providing ‘innovations and opportunities for Edinburgh cyclists’, including bike hire and loan schemes, safe bike storage for tenements and flat-dwellers, and cargo bikes and e-bikes for heavy loads …

Cycling, Health and Wellbeing

Organised bike rides in and around Edinburgh

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Reading Time: < 1 minuteCycling Edinburgh has a website with information on organised bike rides in or near Edinburgh.  They are run by local cycling clubs, groups and individuals, and are mostly free and open to all.  See http://www.cycling-edinburgh.org.uk/ for more information.  Their upcoming rides are: Sunday 24 November – EasyCycle Half-Day Ride:   12-15 …

Food

Too Good To Go – join the fight against food waste!

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Reading Time: < 1 minuteHas anyone tried out the Too Good To Go app?  https://mailings.ed.ac.uk/2YP3-YL1V-4NV8O7-L3LA4-1/c.aspx Wasted food is responsible for 8% of the global greenhouse gas emissions – it’s not just the food itself that goes to waste, it’s all the resources that went into making it, from water to land and labour.  Incredibly, …

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