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UCC Green Week 2023

14 Mar 2023
UCC Staff, Students and the wider community celebrate Green Week 2023

Dr Maria Kirrane, Head of Sustainability & Climate Action Office, invites the UCC community to come together to call for a better and more sustainable future. 

Foraging workshops, biodiversity walks, debates and discussions are among the events for staff and students taking place as part of UCC Green Week which occurs all this week. It is a week of climate activism designed to raise awareness and spark conversations.

Held annually, UCC Green Week invites our staff, students and wider community to celebrate innovative research and initiatives underway whilst inspiring us all to take further action to protect and restore our environment for future generations.

Throughout the week, you are invited to attend a variety of events and activities.

Highlights include:

  • Repair and Mend workshop

Monday, 13 March, Western Gateway Building, Room 226.

Learn to patch, denim, crochet or sew. The workshop will explore sustainable ways to combat fast fashion at home. 

  • UCC Green Week Symposium

Monday, 13 March, in the Shtepps, The Hub, at 5.30pm.

Hear the latest insights from UCC’s sustainability researchers, from variety of disciplines including Law, Science, Applied Psychology to Chemistry, Engineering, and Nursing.

  • Nature and Foraging Walk

Tuesday, 14 March, 12pm – 2pm, meet at the Glucksman Gallery.

Join Melanie O’Driscoll and John Armstrong of the Green Step for a foraging walk on campus and learn about the potential to gather your own food from UCC’s green spaces.

  • Spring Biodiversity Campus Walk

Wednesday, 15 March, 12pm – 13.30pm, Meet at the UCC main entrance gates (Alumni Bridge)

Take part in this tour of our campus, exploring biodiversity at its best while finding out about the importance and variety of pollinators all around us.

  • COP27 Reflections

Thursday, 16 March, Sustainable Futures Lab, in-person and online, 12.30pm – 2pm.

UCC students and researchers will share their insights and reflections on their time at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP-27) in conversation with George Lee, RTÉ Environment Correspondent.

  • A Constitutional Right to the Environment? A panel discussion and model environmental court.

Thursday, 16 March, ALG18, 4pm – 5pm.

Our panellists will explore if it’s time to convene a Citizens’ Assembly on biodiversity and insert environmental rights into the Constitution.

Office of Sustainability and Climate Action

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G.08 North Wing, Main Quadrangle, University College Cork, Western Road, Cork T12 K8AF,

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