Event Type: Webinar & Talks

Join Advanced Clothing Solutions (ACS) for a site tour of Europe’s Largest circular fashion hub based right here in North Lanarkshire, Scotland! On the tour you will follow the journey of garments fulfilment experiencing the expert technology for extending its life through Rental, Resale and Renewal. Learn from the ACS team how they integrate sustainability to all elements of the facility for people, planet and profit.

ACS are hosting two in-person tours on Thursday 23rd March, with 10 tickets available for each.

This event is organised by Sustainable Fashion Scotland.

If you don’t know what to do with all your spare materials (including fabric), join this talk by CAN (Circular Arts Network) to learn how to use the new online circular economy exchange platform.

CAN will show you how to register and use the online exchange platform to upload freebies and paid listings, as well as how to source art materials. They will also share some examples of the projects they have been involved with supporting.

At the end of the session there will be a Q&A with CAN and an open discussion on sourcing and sharing supplies, skills and equipment, related to sustainable fashion and textiles.

This event is organised by Sustainable Fashion Scotland.

Join Advanced Clothing Solutions (ACS) for a site tour of Europe’s Largest circular fashion hub based right here in North Lanarkshire, Scotland! On the tour you will follow the journey of garments fulfilment experiencing the expert technology for extending its life through Rental, Resale and Renewal. Learn from the ACS team how they integrate sustainability to all elements of the facility for people, planet and profit.

ACS are hosting two in-person tours on Thursday 23rd March, with 10 tickets available for each.

This event is organised by Sustainable Fashion Scotland.

Join SFS Creative Director Mairi Lowe for a talk and Q&A on marketing and communicating sustainability. Bring along your fashion and textile marketing challenges for us to explore and workshop ideas together!

Whether you are looking to maximise profit, raise awareness of sustainability issues or encourage behaviour change, an effective marketing and communications strategy is essential for any organisation. However, many individuals and small businesses working in fashion and textiles in Scotland don’t have the time or capacity to dedicate to marketing.

Are you a small business owner who needs a communications plan that fits into your busy schedule? Perhaps you run sewing workshops and don’t know which newsletter tool is best to use? Are you wondering if TikTok is really worth it? Maybe you are looking for suggestions on who to collaborate with to expand your reach?

If you have a marketing challenge you’d like help with, please join Mairi, a freelance Communications Consultant specialising in sustainable fashion in Scotland, for a short talk sharing her top tips and tools, plus a Q&A session where together we will explore ideas and workshop solutions, learning from one another.

There is a space in the registration form to share any marketing challenges or questions you have in advance.

This event is organised by Sustainable Fashion Scotland.

Creation Mill are excited to be opening their doors (physically and virtually via social media) to SFS Spring Gathering attendees on Friday 24th March with different activities on offer throughout the day:

• 10am-12pm: Mending workshop. Drop in to have a professional look over your garment or textile product and receive advice and demonstrate mending techniques.
• 12-1pm: Tour of the Buccleuch Mill. Our Creation Mill Space is set amongst the Buccleuch Mill and at 12pm we will offering a chance to explore the workspaces of the textile producers that operate on our doorstep. Spaces are limited to 8 people for the tour.
• 1-5pm: Stash busting fabric and haberdashery swapping event. Everyone is welcome to come and swap items to refresh their collection and get inspired for a spring of textile recycling. Each item will be exchanged for a button to be used as a coin. If you don’t have anything to swap don’t worry you are more than welcome to come along as buttons will also be available to purchase for £2.

Booking for the mending workshop and stash busting fabric event is not necessary but if you would like to join for the tour please book a ticket. Spaces are limited to 8 people for the tour.

This event is organised by Sustainable Fashion Scotland.

Join Jayne Chappell from Social Enterprise Scotland to learn about what a social enterprise is, why social enterprises are essential for our communities, and how to set up a social enterprise. Jayne will also share about the support available for social enterprises across Scotland from Social Enterprise Scotland and others. During the 30-minute session Jayne will share their top learnings and tips and answer any burning questions.

This event is organised by Sustainable Fashion Scotland.

The Amazon rainforest is under attack, mirroring our relationship with the planet as a whole.

Drawing on the work of the ‘Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures’ collective, this session will create a space to discuss and dive deeper into the denials which enable our colonial, violent and unsustainable ways of being.

It will be an attempt to open the possibility of developing a new relationship with ourselves and the more-than-human world we co-exist with.

No cost. Online event.

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/noticing-colonial-structures-and-trying-to-avoid-the-same-mistakes-tickets-476343595517

Dr Laura McCrimmon and Jen Hickling, project manager at Bonnymuir Green, will be talking about the impact of green space on health. They’ll talk about how community groups can support health and wellbeing in the community to reduce the strain on the health sector while improving the health and happiness of the general population.

Dr Laura McCrimmon is a junior doctor and clinical fellow within Aberdeen University and ARI. She holds an MSc in Exercise Medicine and is working to embed knowledge about sustainable healthcare and preventative health into medical practice.

Jen Hickling is the project manager at Bonnymuir Green, a thriving community owned greenspace a five-minute walk away from ARI. Bonnymuir Green provides the community with a mix of educational and social activities, encouraging fun, good health, wellbeing and sustainable living.

For booking follow this link: https://forms.office.com/e/7LFRVQwCC1

Are we currently in another mass-extinction event? If so, what’s causing it? Join a special tour of the University of Aberdeen’s Zoology Museum led by students from the Zoology Society, where we’ll look at species at risk of extinction, and discuss major issues plaguing our global biodiversity.

11:00 to 16:00. Tours on the hour every hour. Two tours per hour.

Free – Booking on University of Aberdeen website: https://www.abdn.ac.uk/collections/visit-us/whats-on/18177/

Wingate Road Bus Station (Busses: 8 and 19). Duncan Rice Library Parking available for cars, Disabled parking available (we recommend parking at the disabled parking at the Cruickshanks parking, the Zoology building is wheelchair accessible only from the Botanical Gardens entrance. The front entrance elevator is not in working condition)

Wednesday 29th March, 12-1pm in Rm 402, Suttie Centre, Foresterhill Campus, Aberdeen

Dr Sarkar will talk about the Greener Theatres program and how surgical teams can make surgery more sustainable. She will also touch on the NHS sustainability strategy and how healthcare workers can bring the strategy to life.

Dr Sarkar is the Sustainability Support officer for NHS Grampian. Alongside the sustainability team she is creating the NHS Grampian sustainability strategy and putting its plans into action.

For booking follow this link: https://forms.office.com/e/7LFRVQwCC1

Peatlands are part of Buchan’s cultural history, hear stories about people and peatlands, and consider how communities can rediscover their connection with this iconic landscape. Then we’ll explore the work being undertaken to restore peatlands and it’s resulting multiple benefits

Presented by Dawn James, Community Engagement Officer RSPB NE Scotland, Russell Hooper, Nature Scot Peatland Action Project Officer & Matts De Boer, RSPB NE Scotland Peatland Conservation Adviser

The webinar will take place 7-8pm via zoom. Booking isn’t required but if you could let us know you’ll be attending that will be helpful, please email Dawn at [email protected]

Ben will discuss the value of plastic regarding human health, the environmental cost of their use and how a circular economy can contribute to a more sustainable future.

Ben Durack is the Director of Origin plastics and a Course leader at Gray’s School of Art. As part of Origin plastics, Ben has developed technology to recycle materials and design new products at the source of waste. This has involved working with Camphill community to recycle their used PPE.

For more information about talks being hosted at Aberdeen Medical school follow this link: https://sway.office.com/r8xkzsxn1bjeytsU?ref=Link

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Author Louise Gray explores the environmental impact of our favourite fruits and vegetables. What is the carbon footprint of green beans from Kenya? How much water is used to grow an avocado? Should we only eat strawberries in season? How do we cut food waste from wonky carrots? Is foraged food better for you? The answers are often complex and require all of us to consider how we can help avert the climate crisis through what we eat.

Hear the stories behind your Fairtrade bananas and organic potatoes and taste some of the recipes made from foods that may provide the answer.

Presented by Bloomsbury Publishing

By 2050 our planet will have around ten billion people to feed. With over 800 million of us already living in hunger, the world needs answers – and fast.

Emerging research has shown that seaweed could be the safe and sustainable solution to the world’s looming agricultural crisis – as well as addressing climate change, tackling poverty and contributing to a growing ocean economy. This often overlooked algae can contribute to better food sources, replace plastics and fertilisers, boost medical innovations, mitigate global warming, repair biodiversity and support economies in coastal communities.

Join internationally renowned sustainability expert Vincent Doumeizel, author of The Seaweed Revolution, as he takes us on an extraordinary journey of our history with seaweed and how the seaweed revolution might just be a new hope for tomorrow.

What emotions do you feel when you consider our future on a warming
planet? Are you paralysed by anxiety? Wracked with anger? Seized with hope? Do emotions like these stop us from thinking rationally about climate action, or are there times when emotion is just what we need to make us strive for a better world?

Join ethics researcher, emotion theorist and sometime climate activist Dr James Hutton and marine scientist Dr Sebastian Hennige for an exploration of the impacts of climate change on marine environments and a deep dive into the highs and lows of our emotional responses to the climate crisis. Including original poetry readings from Scottish Creative, Raymond Wilson, and hosted by Dr Hermione Cockburn, Scientific Director of Dynamic Earth.

Ticket includes a welcome drink on arrival.

Presented by Dynamic Earth

Join Edinburgh scientists – Dr Mark Miller, Prof Richard Weller, Dr Rosemary Townsend, Dr Andrea Ford and Dr Shauna Golden – and healthcare workers for an evening exploring the interaction of environment and climate with our health from the womb throughout our life course.

We will explore how everyone can be a citizen scientist and engage with research that can help us to understand, adapt to and shape our environment for a healthy community and planet. Join us at Dynamic Earth for lightning talks, interactive stalls and a welcome drink included as part of your ticket.

Presented by Dynamic Earth