Sustainability Week Events
Sunday 30th October
Venue: Roald Dahl Plas,Cardiff Bay
Time: 1pm
Join a ‘flashmob’ organised by Size of Wales, the charity Cardiff University is supporting for Sustainability Week. The event will be filmed to create an advert for the charity.
Monday 31st October
Eco-Halloween
Venue: Viriamu Jones Gallery, Main Building
Time: 11am – 4pm
Learn how to be an ethical ghoul or an eco wizard at the Eco Halloween Fayre. Stalls will feature ethical products, Halloween food and recipes, costume ideas, craft activities, face-painting tips and lots more!
Tuesday 1st November
Fruit and Veg co-op
Order your fruit and vegetable bags online and come and collect them every Tuesday between 11am and 4pm from the TV Lounge, 3rd Floor, Students Union, Park Place
Visit http://groups.cardiffstudents.com/fruitveg/about/ to place your order.
SciScreen Event- Silent Running
Venue: Chapter, Market Place, Canton, Cardiff, CF5 1QE
Time: 6.00pm
Silent Running is an environmentally themed science fiction film. It is set in a future where all flora is extinct on Earth. An astronaut is given orders to destroy the last of Earth's plant life being kept in a greenhouse on board a spacecraft.
A discussion with academics including Dr Rhodri Evans from the School of Physics and Astronomy and Lori Frater from BRASS will follow. More speakers to be announced.
Pedal Power
Venue: Meet outside the Students Union
Time: 10am - 1pm and 1.30pm - 4.30pm
Pedal Power have organised a bike ride (bikes and leaders provided) around Cardiff. Places are available on a first come first served basis, so booking is essential. All cyclists with their own bikes are welcome to join in as well.
Contact Nick Matthew at MatthewN@cardiff.ac.uk to reserve your place.
Dr Bike workshop
Venue: Michael Griffith Lecture Theatre, Heath Park
Time: 10.00am-4.00pm
Bring your bike along to the Doctor Bike service and Cardiff Cycle Workshop mechanics will diagnose and repair any problems as well as share skills on basic bike maintenance.
Wednesday 2nd November
Sustainability Week 2011 Debate
Venue: School of Optometry & Vision Sciences, Cardiff University, Maindy Road
Time: 6.00pm reception for a 6.30pm start
Hosted by the University’s Sustainable Places Research Institute the debate will ask, what impact a small nation such as Wales can have on sustainability in a global context, and what individuals can do to make a difference?
Reserve places: sustainableplaces@cardiff.ac.uk
Campus Map Launch
Sustainability Week 2011 is proud to launch Campus Walking Maps. These maps can help you find the easiest and quickest route across campus, as well as provide you with timing estimations to help you plan your journey. As the University is based at only two key campuses, walking is one of the easiest and most environmentally friendly forms of transport.
Take a look at the maps
Thursday 3rd November
Dr Bike workshop
Venue: Main Building Car Park
Time: 10.00am-4.00pm
Bring your bike along to the Doctor Bike service and Cardiff Cycle Workshop mechanics will diagnose and repair any problems as well as share skills on basic bike maintenance.
Bike Marking
Venue: Students Union Steps
Time: 10.00am-4.00pm
UV bike marking is available free of charge to all in a joint initiative between the University’s Security & Portering Services and South Wales Police.
Ruperra Conservation Trust Lunchtime Presentation
Venue: Main Building Council Chamber
Time: 12.30-13.30
Coed Craig Ruperra is owned by Ruperra Conservation Trust, a registered charity based near Caerphilly in South Wales. Our aim is to conserve and restore the biodiversity and built heritage of Coed Craig Ruperra, which was bought by the Trust in 2000.
Sue Price, from the trust will give a brief lunchtime presentation and discussion about the work Ruperra does and opportunities for involvement.
Debating Society Meet
Venue: Aneurin Bevan Room, 4th Floor, Students Union, Park Place
Time: 8pm
Cardiff University’s debating society is inviting all students to join them for a special one–off debating session about sustainable issues. Go and share your views and practice your debating skills. No experience necessary.
Friday 4th November
Bike sale by Cardiff Cycle Workshop
Venue: Main Building Car Park
Time: 12 midday-2.00pm
If you don’t own a bike there will be a bike sale run by the Cardiff Cycle Workshop team. This is a not-for-profit social enterprise that refurbishes unwanted bikes for public sale and for use in community projects. Reasonable prices and great way to get around Cardiff.
Bike Marking
Venue: Students Union Steps
Time: 10am-4.00pm
UV bike marking is available free of charge to all in a joint initiative between the University’s Security & Portering Services and South Wales Police
Saturday 5th November
Cardiff Ramblers Walk
Meet: Radyr Station car park
Staff, students and friends are welcome to come on a 4 mile walk, organised via the Cardiff Ramblers, in the Forest Farm country park and nature reserve. There will be the opportunity to see some of the practical nature conservation work relating to sustainability conducted by local environmental groups.
To book or for more information, please contact John Newton, newton@cardiff.ac.uk, or extension 7441
Sunday 6th November
Mega Messiah
Venue: Wales Millennium Centre
Time: Rehearsal 1.30pm, Performance 6pm
As part of Sustainability Week, Cardiff University is supporting the Fairbridge Trust. This event will fundraise and raise awareness of the charity and the work they do. The aim is to achieve 1000 people performing Handel’s Messiah.
Tickets are now on sale and can be booked via the Centre box office at wmc.org.uk (tel: 029 2063 6464) where more information about the event is available. Tickets cost £15 for singers or £12 if you book 10 or more (by phone or in person only). Audience tickets are £10.
- Mega Messiah leaflet [938.7 Kb]
All week events -
Student Sustainable Innovation Challenge
Students – do you have a sustainable idea, concept, product or system? Tell us more about it in a short film (of no more than 3 minutes) and you could win £300 to help get your idea off the ground. We want you to tell us a story, to persuade us, and to get us thinking. The challenge is open to all Cardiff University students.
1. Generate it
Create a sustainable idea, concept, product or system.
2. Film it
It is the value in the idea that counts, the production quality of the video will not be judged. Use your phone, a digital camera or high-end AV equipment.
3. Upload it
All videos are to be emailed to Fandc@cardiff.ac.uk, thereafter they will be made publicly available on the Student Union Website
Entries must be submitted by end of day (5.00pm) on Friday 4th November
Local food produce
Throughout Sustainability Week all catering menus in University cafes and restaurants will be using local produce and fish from the “fish not at risk” list.
Staff and Student Switch Off
‘Student Switch Off’ is a campaign run by the Student Switch Off company - a not-for-profit company that works with universities to help reduce carbon emissions. Over the course of a year, students are encouraged to make simple changes such as switching off lights and cooking with lids on saucepans in their halls of residences to save electricity. During Sustainability Week, staff will be invited to join Cardiff students for the ‘Switch Off’. Upload a photograph of your energy saving measures in your offices and Schools to: http://www.studentswitchoff.org/upload.
There’ll be prizes for the best staff photographs. http://www.facebook.com/#!/CardiffUniversityStudentSwitchOff
Brazil Sugar Cane Photo Story Exhibition
1st -4th November
Photographed as part of his research carried out for BRASS, Dr Peter Wells documented the process of the ethanol production from sugar cane in a small-scale alcohol plant in Brazil. The resulting series of photographs beautifully illustrates the process from harvesting the sugar cane to the finished ethanol storage and demonstrates the developing interest in small-scale, integrated and localised ethanol production for bio-plastic as part of a locally sustainable agro-industrial ecosystem.
This photo-story will be displayed in the VJ Gallery from Tuesday 1st November - Friday 4th November.