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Working For ProgressWorking For Progress with Chris HellawellWelcome to Season 2! Today we welcome Chris Hellawell. Chris and I met at the School for Social Entrepreneurs Scotland programme, way back in 2014 when we were both setting up our enterprises. Now Chris has a tool library empire and has a workshop at Tribe Porty.Chris Hellawell is the Director of the Edinburgh Tool Library, an organisation that aims to create resilient communities by harnessing the wealth of resources that already exists within those communities. This includes tools, equipment, space, volunteers, skills and knowledge. They share tools and equipment via tool lending libraries, and teach ski...2023-12-0823 min
Sustainable(ish)[147] Re-run the fun…With Episode 002 – Edinburgh Tool LibraryThe podcast is having a break over the summer, so I thought it would be a good opportunity to re-visit some of my favourite episodes from the archives.This episode with Chris Hellawell from The Edinburgh Tool Library was one of the very first episodes published, but that's not the only reason I love it so much. […]2022-07-2259 min
A Sustainable Life with Jen Gale[147] Re-run the fun…With Episode 002 – Edinburgh Tool Library
The podcast is having a break over the summer, so I thought it would be a good opportunity to re-visit some of my favourite episodes from the archives.This episode with Chris Hellawell from The Edinburgh Tool Library was one of the very first episodes published, but that's not the only reason I love it so much. What Chris and his team have achieved up in Edinburgh is just brilliant. Tool Libraries are a fabulous concept - they work like libraries, but for tools. But what Chris has created is so much more th...2022-07-2259 min
The Common Weal Policy PodcastEpisode #93 - Buy Less, Borrow BetterEpisode 93 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast You can download the episode directly here.This week, Craig talks to Chris Hellawell and Alice McGillicuddy from Edinburgh Tool Library. They discuss what a tool library is, why they are the future of how we use tools and other goods and their reaction to the news that the Scottish Climate Assembly has called for the Scottish Government to create and support a network of such libraries across Scotland.Common Weal's work is only possible thanks to our generous supporters w...2021-07-2035 min
Circular Economy PodcastEpisode 27 Chris Hellawell – Edinburgh Tool LibraryChris Hellawell is founder and director of Edinburgh Tool Library, which works like a lending library, sharing tools rather than books.
Chris is passionate about the concept of sharing as a way to tackle the climate crisis, and also as a way to save money, and to build social connections in communities. By sharing, everyone is richer.
The Edinburgh Tool Library started out as a set of shelves in a spare room. Now it’s a city-wide organisation with multiple sites, including a tool maintenance depot, two wood workshops, a library and a police box. The Library runs classes, youth pr...2020-05-1036 min
Irish Composers CollAnselm McDonnell - Crossing The FirthCrossing the Firth
Crossing the Firth is my first work for electronics and manipulates vocal materials derived from a single plainchant melody and its spectral analysis. The plainchant was sourced from the Inchcolm Antiphon, a collection of Scottish chants used in the Abbey on Inchcolm, an island in the Firth of Forth. The piece explores interaction and dialogue over great distance or insurmountable barriers, hence the notion of crossing. By using references to sacred music and the ethereal effects produced by extreme reverb, the work touches on humanity’s estrangement from God, distanced by sin. This music will be used as...2019-02-0609 minSustainable(ish)[005] – HOW TO GET STARTED WITH A SUSTAINABLE LIFEIn this episode we look at what Sustainable Living even means, and how to get started when it might be feeling really overwhelming. Useful linksEpisode 003 – Start with WhyEpisode 002 – with Chris Hellawell, founder of the Edinburgh Tool LibraryMy ‘Sustainable 2018’ webinar – I talk in here about goal setting and chunking things […]2018-05-1500 minA Sustainable Life with Jen Gale[005] – HOW TO GET STARTED WITH A SUSTAINABLE LIFEIn this episode we look at what Sustainable Living even means, and how to get started when it might be feeling really overwhelming.
Useful linksEpisode 003 – Start with WhyEpisode 002 – with Chris Hellawell, founder of the Edinburgh Tool LibraryMy ‘Sustainable 2018’ webinar – I talk in here about goal setting and chunking things down to help you get startedMy 'Making Sustainable Changes' workbook to accompany the webinarMy ‘Sustainable Life wheel’ – this will help you to divide sustainable living into different areas and decide what to work on firstMy free Sustainable Life Facebook community where you’ll find a brilliant group of friendly, a...2018-05-1500 minSustainable(ish)[002] – MEET THE FOUNDER OF THE UK’S FIRST TOOL LIBRARYTool libraries are a brilliantly simple concept, and are a pretty popular thing over in North America, but up until a couple of years ago, we didn’t have even one here in the UK.All that changed in 2015 when Chris Hellawell started up The Edinburgh Tool Library. It’s an inspirational story of one man with a […]2018-05-1100 minA Sustainable Life with Jen Gale[002] – MEET THE FOUNDER OF THE UK’S FIRST TOOL LIBRARY
Tool libraries are a brilliantly simple concept, and are a pretty popular thing over in North America, but up until a couple of years ago, we didn’t have even one here in the UK.All that changed in 2015 when Chris Hellawell started up The Edinburgh Tool Library. It’s an inspirational story of one man with a vision, who is creating huge positive change in his community and showing the Sharing Economy is about far more than simply ‘stuff’.
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