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Click to download the Climate Week North East 2023 brochure! Climate Week North East is 10 days packed full of fun, inspiring and interesting events, designed to raise awareness
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Click to download the Climate Week North East 2023 brochure!
Climate Week North East is 10 days packed full of fun, inspiring and interesting events, designed to raise awareness of climate change but, more importantly, show what we can all do to make a difference and reduce our carbon footprint, live sustainably and increase biodiversity in a fun way. It occurs every March, with events on throughout Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire. The next Climate Week North East is on 24th March – 2nd April 2023.
Events in Climate Week North East differ each year but generally include family fun days, guided walks and bike rides, upcycling events, tours, wild meadow making, workshops and discussions, conferences, litter picks, films and talks, craft and story sessions, information drop ins and challenges.
We welcome any events that have as their focus how you are or we can reduce carbon emissions, live sustainably and increase biodiversity. If you have an event you would like to put on during CWNE even if it’s simply to showcase what you currently are doing, then get in touch at [email protected]
Check out our past CWNE brochures to gain inspiration or simply see what type of events have taken place previously. For up to the moment information on our events and what is going on locally see our facebook page.
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Time
March 24 (Friday) – April 2 (Sunday)
Location
North East Scotland (See individual events details)
Organiser
Climate Week North East
NESCAN (North East Climate Action Network)
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Come and be a part of this afternoon in the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh where we through creative and scientific means will explore the role of trees in the climate
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Come and be a part of this afternoon in the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh where we through creative and scientific means will explore the role of trees in the climate crisis and biodiversity collapse.
Plants have always traversed seas, intentionally and inadvertently. At this event we will get a chance to experience the exhibition In Shipping Roots, by Keg de Souza that explores how plants have moved through the British Empire including eucalyptus, prickly pear and many seedlings which came to the UK in sheep fleeces. The exhibition highlights the role of art in linking the story of plants, history, and people in a physical space, opening up dialogues and imaginaries that are critical in finding solutions to the climate crisis.
This event will also include a guided walk by Dr Max Coleman, Science Communicator for the Botanics who will talk us through how and why a shift to natural regeneration is positive for plants and planet. Finally, we will hear from James McDougall, Carbon Manager for the Woodland Trust Scotland, who will speak on sustainable carbon management and tree planting in Scotland followed by an open discussion.
Programme:
14.00: Meet in front of Inverleith House
14.10: Introduction
14.30: Exhibition tour by Keg de Souza and Emma Nicolson
15.00: Guided walk by Dr Max Coleman
15.30: Break with coffee and tea
15.40: Presentation on carbon management and tree planting by James McDougall at Botanics Cottage Professors Room
16.00: Discussion and networking
17.00: Thank you for today!
About our speakers
Dr Max Coleman
Max Coleman has had an interest in trees for as long as he can remember. It was the tree collection at Kew Gardens in London, near where he grew up, that stimulated his interest in botany. He worked for a number of years in nature conservation, and this developed an interest in natural forests and the processes that operate within them. As a science communicator he aims to make plant science accessible and engaging.
Emma Nicolson
Emma Nicolson, Head of Creative Programmes was appointed to RBGE in December 2018. She formerly served as founding director of ATLAS Arts based in the Isle of Skye and spent three years as a senior manager for Australia’s Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. Emma has been actively involved in the arts for over twenty years working with leading cultural institutions across the world.
James McDougall
The Woodland Trust Scotland wants the Scottish Government to increase planting targets of native species. At this event James McDougall, Woodland Trust’s carbon manager will outline how the Woodland Trust monetarise carbon and provide a case study of a good example of sustainable tree planting.
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Time
(Monday) 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Location
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
Arboretum Pl, Edinburgh EH3 5NZ
Organiser
Creative Carbon Scotland
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Doors at 7pm, come early to discover climate groups & activists operating across Scotland. Discussion will begin at 7.30pm. For too long,
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Doors at 7pm, come early to discover climate groups & activists operating across Scotland. Discussion will begin at 7.30pm.
For too long, representations of climate action in the mainstream media have been white-washed, green-washed and diluted to be made compatible with capitalism.
We are living in an economic system which pursues profit above all else; harmful, oppressive systems that heavily contribute to the climate crisis, and environmental consequences that have been toned down to the masses. Tackling the climate crisis requires us to visit the roots of poverty, capitalist exploitation, police brutality and legal injustice. Climate justice offers the real possibility of huge leaps towards racial equality and collective liberation as it aims to dismantle the very foundations of these issues. In her debut book, campaigner Mikaela Loach offers a fresh and radical perspective for real climate action that could drastically change the world as we know it for the benefit of us all.
Written with candour and hope, It’s Not That Radical will galvanise readers across generations to take action, offering an accessible and transformative appraisal of our circumstances to help mobilise a majority for the future of our planet.
Practical and urgent – this is a clarion call for transformation from the front lines of the fight for people and planet. I have no doubt It’s Not That Radical will become an indispensable toolkit for a new generation of activists – Naomi Klein
Come and celebrate with us – not just this phenomenal new book, but the possibilities it creates and the movement it is part of.
*Please note masks are required at all indoor events run by Lighthouse.
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Time
(Thursday) 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Location
Assembly Roxy
2 Roxburgh Place, Edinburgh EH8 9SU
Organiser
Lighthouse – Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop
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