PROGRAMME

TO DO

Time: 11.00am

Place: Zoom 

Suitable for families

Once kids are riding their own bikes it won’t be long before they need a bit of maintenance, and teaching kids to keep an eye on the condition of their bike could stop a small problem becoming a big problem. This workshop will be a combination of demonstration and hands on activities to try on any bikes you have at home. This will include: basic rules for nuts and bolts; checking for loose bearings; adjusting saddle height; checking wheel nuts are tight; how to know what size of wheel a bike has; how to pump up a tyre; finding punctures in an inner tube; checking and tightening brakes; oiling chains; giving the bike a quick clean.

List of materials needed to do hands-on activities at home: a set of spanners OR an adjustable spanner and ruler, Allen keys and Screwdrivers, Chain Oil, a spare rag for cleaning, a bike pump OR car foot pump, pliers, one or two bikes to use for the activities.

This is a family workshop for children. Places are limited; booking is essential.

To register, please book your space here, you will be emailed the Zoom link to access with instructions closer to the event.

This event is hosted by Rediscovery Centre in association with Dublin City Council and Sustainable Days

TO WATCH

Time: 11.30am

Place: Facebook  and Instagram

Suitable for children and families

How Many trees can you identify within 5km of your home?

Find out how you can identify and record trees in your local area using the new Dublin City Tree Map.  

This series is hosted by Dublin City Parks and Biodiversity in association with Dublin City Council and Sustainable Days.

TO WATCH

Time: 12.00pm

Place: Facebook

Suitable for children and families

As part of the Rediscover@HomeSeries, Luke Murphy, Tour Guide and Visitor Engagement Officer goes behind the scenes at the Rediscovery Centre to share some information about the four social enterprises: Rediscover Furniture, Rediscover Cycling, Rediscover Paint and Rediscover Fashion. Full series content here http://www.rediscoverycentre.ie/news/…

This series is hosted by Rediscovery Centre in association with Dublin City Council and Sustainable Days.

TO WATCH

Time: 12.30pm

Place: Facebook

Suitable for children and families

What is the Pollinator Plan? How are councils, community groups and farmers supporting pollinators? 

Join Dr Úna FitzPatrick,  Senior Ecologist in the National Biodiversity Data Centre,

and RTE Nationwide to learn more about the work of the National Biodiversity Data Centre.
To learn more about All Ireland Pollinator Plan visit https://pollinators.ie/

This event was presented by All Ireland Pollinator Plan in association with Dublin City Council and Sustainable Days.

TO WATCH

Time: 12.45pm

Place: Facebook and Instagram

Suitable for children and families

 Join Mary Louise and Eimear for some tips and recipes on how to plan meals wisely, waste less food and eat well!

 This is a fun and practical mini-series of cooking programmes with delicious (and easy) recipes with plenty of hints and tips to reduce food waste and save money!

 This series is hosted by My Waste in association with Dublin City Council and Sustainable Days.

TO WATCH

Time: 1.00pm

Place: Facebook  and Instagram

Suitable for children and families

Join the Codema Team to learn all about the Home Energy Saving Kit, how to use it and where you can pick one up! 

The Home Energy Saving Kit has been developed to help you understand your energy consumption and identify the most important areas of your home for energy upgrades. This practical kit includes five tools and six exercises which will help you conduct your own home energy audit and find the easiest and most effective ways to reduce your energy. This is a perfect activity for the whole family to learn more about energy usage!

 Share a picture with us when you get your Home Energy Saving Kit using #SustainableDaysEnergyKit

For more information read more in our activity  Save energy with the Home Energy Saving Kit

The Home Energy Saving Kit is developed  by CODEMA in association with Dublin City Council and Sustainable Days.

TO DO

Time: 1.30pm

Place: Facebook

Suitable for children and families

 Join Sarah Clear, Education Manager at the Rediscovery Centre to learn some tips on how to encourage biodiversity in your very own garden!

This series is hosted by Rediscovery Centre in association with Dublin City Council and Sustainable Days.

TO WATCH

Time: 2.00pm

Place: Facebook  and Instagram

Suitable for children and families

Dara is concerned about plastic pollution, so she decided to make a few changes in her life. Join her for some essential tips on how to reduce plastic pollution in our everyday lives.

This series is hosted by Dublin City Council Waste Management in association with Dublin City Council and Sustainable Days.

TO WATCH

Time: 2.15pm

Place: Facebook  and Instagram

Suitable for children and families

Explore the Native Tree Trail in St Anne’s Park with Dublin City Council’s Biodiversity Officer and find out about the local tree trail nearest you.  

This series is hosted by Dublin City Parks and Biodiversity in association with Dublin City Council and Sustainable Days.

TO DO

Time: 2.30pm

Place: ZOOM

Suitable for children and families

Join ECO-UNESCO in this fun and interactive workshop where we will explore the effects of fast fashion on our planet! You’ll learn about the impacts of the clothing industry on the environment, ways to make your clothes last longer and how to shop more sustainably. You’ll also learn how to make a tote bag from your old t-shirt! 

What do you need? Participants need to bring an old t-shirt and scissors to make a tote bag.

There will also be opportunities for audience participation!

This is a family workshop. Places are limited; booking is essential.

To register, please book your space here, you will be emailed the Zoom link to access with instructions closer to the event.

This event is presented by ECO-UNESCO in Association with Dublin City Council and Sustainable Days.

More about ECO-UNESCO of Ireland here

TO WATCH

Time: 2.45pm

Place: Facebook and Instagram

Suitable for children and families

Join Mary Louise and Eimear for some tips and recipes on how to plan meals wisely, waste less food and eat well!

This is a fun and practical mini-series of cooking programmes with delicious (and easy) recipes with plenty of hints and tips to reduce food waste and save money!

This series is hosted by My Waste in association with Dublin City Council and Sustainable Days.

TO DO

Time: 3.00pm

Place: Facebook and Instagram 

Suitable for children and families

This fun interactive workshop explores biodiversity, nature during the winter. The workshop features a range of interactive activities investigating the importance of biodiversity, and how participants can encourage and conserve wildlife in their area.  During the workshop, participants will make a bug hotel or bird box using materials at home.

To take part in the worksop at home, you will need:

• Make Food chains and webs: sheet of A4 paper, pencils, colouring pencils
• Make a bird feeder: clean milk carton, scissors, string, small sticks, paint, washing up liquid
• Make a bug hotel: A4 paper, colouring pencils/markers, scissors, old shoebox, cardboard, cardboard toilet rolls, old plastic bottles, variety of different materials from the garden/park such as sticks, stones, leaves, pine cones, bamboo sticks, dead flowers

This event is hosted by Rediscovery Centre in association with Dublin City Council and Sustainable Days.

TO WATCH

Time: 3.15 pm

Place: Facebook and Instagram 

Suitable for children and families

Join Oliver Nicholson, Head of the Hydrology Section of the Office of Public Works to learn how to plan, prepare and protect you and your family of the dangers of flooding.

The purpose of the presentation is to present the OPW’s Public Awareness website, flooding.ie. which aims to raise public awareness of the dangers of flooding and measures that can be taken to minimise the damage that can be caused by a flood event. You will also be shown other interesting websites that can be used to enable you to assess the level of risk from flooding and take appropriate actions!

The Office of Public Works (OPW) is the lead State body for the coordination and implementation of government policy on the management of flood risk in Ireland. One of the many ongoing programmes of work being undertaken by the OPW is the National Public Awareness Programme for flooding.

 This event is brought to you by Dublin City Council’s Climate Action Team and The Office of Public Works in association with Sustainable Days

TO WATCH

Time: 3.30pm

Place: Facebook

Suitable for children and families

Join Tina Aughney of Bat Conservation Ireland who will guide you through some different bat detectors and how to use them.

This series is hosted by Bat Conservation Ireland in association with Dublin City Council and Sustainable Days.

TO DO

Time: 4.00pm

Place: Facebook

Suitable for children and families

Join Audrey Rutherford, Eco Store Supervisor at the Rediscovery Centre to make a face mask from items that you have around your home. Please note that these face masks are for personal use and they are not suitable for medical use.

This series is hosted by Rediscovery Centre in association with Dublin City Council and Sustainable Days.

TO DISCUSS

Time: 4.30 pm

Place: Zoom 

Adults

Join Dave Wall, Citizen Science Officer with the National Biodiversity Data Centre, to learn how to become a citizen scientist and help record Ireland’s marine biodiversity.

Dave will give an introduction to the National Biodiversity Data Centre’s new Explore Your Shore! Citizen science project and show how easy it is to record our coastal species and contribute real scientific information to the National Biodiversity Data Centre.

During the talk you will be introduced to some of our common seashore species and learn how to identify them and where to find them.

This is an all audience workshop. Places are limited; booking is essential.

To register, please book your space here, you will be emailed the Zoom link to access with instructions closer to the event.

This event is hosted by Explore Your Shore in association with Sustainable Days and Dublin City Council.

Read more about Explore Your Shore here: www.ExploreYourShore.ie 

TO WATCH

Time: 5.00pm

Place: Facebook

Suitable for children and families

Join Mary Louise and Eimear for some tips and recipes on how to plan meals wisely, waste less food and eat well!

This is a fun and practical mini-series of cooking programmes with delicious (and easy) recipes with plenty of hints and tips to reduce food waste and save money!

This series is hosted by My Waste in association with Sustainable day.

TO DO

Time: 11.00 am

Place: Facebook 

Suitable for Children and families

Join Audrey Rutherford, Eco Store Supervisor at the Rediscovery Centre to make a homemade bird nesting material box from a tetra pack.

This series is hosted by Rediscovery Centre in association with Dublin City Council and Sustainable Days.

TO DO

Time: 11.30am

Place: Zoom 

Suitable for Children and families

This fun interactive Waste Workshop explores how much waste we produce, adresses the negative impacts of littering and examines reducing, reusing and recycling. The workshop features a range of activities, such waste sorting games, a waste decomposition activity and  resourceful Christmas crafts reusing waste materials at home.

To take part in this workshop at home, you will need:

• Make a photo frame: cardboard; PVA glue and spreader (or brush); scissors; a variety of materials to decorate the frame like: scrap fabric from old tea-towels/bed linen/socks/t-shirts; old ribbons; used wrapping paper; sweet wrappers; old greetings cards; etc
• Newspaper Gift bags: newspaper, scissors, ruler, pencil, glue, string, hole puncher, small paintbrush
• Gift bows from magazines: colourful magazines, scissors, ruler, stapler, pencil
• Small Christmas wreaths: cardboard, glue, scissors, colourful scrap paper / old fabric / buttons
• Eco Christmas cards: heavy weight paper card, glue, scissors, scrap paper, fabric, pencils, string
• Tree decorations: cardboard from kitchen/toilet roll, paint / markers, string, scrap paper, scissors, pencils, fabric

There will also be opportunities for audience participation!

This is a family workshop. Places are limited; booking is essential.

To register, please book your space here, you will be emailed the Zoom link to access with instructions closer to the event.

This event is hosted by Rediscovery Centre in association with Dublin City Council and Sustainable Days.

TO WATCH

Time: 11.30 pm

Place: Facebook and Instagram

Suitable for all audience

We are all spending more time at home than usual, if you want to minimise your impact in the environment join Elise from Rediscovery Centre to learn how you can live more sustainably during lockdown or working from home!

This event is brought to you by Rediscovery Centre in association with Dublin City Council and Sustainable Days

TO WATCH

Time: 12.00 pm

Place: Facebook and Instagram

Suitable for all audience

Join Leave No Trace Ireland Trainer Ellie Berry in this video who will guide you through the wonderful outdoor amenities available and how each one of us can minimise out impacts on the outdoors and leave no trace.

This series is hosted by Leave No Trace in association with Dublin City Council and Sustainable Days

TO WATCH

Time: 12.30 pm

Place: Facebook and Instagram

Suitable for all audience

Yes, you read that right, bathroom!

Christiana from Rediscovery centre will give you essential tips to transform your bathroom in a Sustainable Bathroom.

This event is brought to you by Rediscovery Centre in association with Dublin City Council and Sustainable Days.

TO WATCH

Time: 12.45 pm

Place: Facebook and Instagram

Suitable for all audience

Join Dr. James Carton of DCU’s School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering to learn more about Ireland’s 1st zero-emissions Hydrogen Bus trial and the main reasons behind it!

Dr. James Carton will also explain the aim and the opportunities of the project for decarbonising our transport using a supply of “green” hydrogen. 

The SFI Insight Centre for Data Analytics at DCU and the Smart DCU team are also playing a key part in this initiative, equipping the bus with state of the art IoT (Internet of Things) sensors to gather information in real-time which will be analysed as part of the overall research.

Read More about Hydrogen Bus here H2MI | DCU | Hydrogen Ireland

This event is brought to you by Smart Dublin and DCU in association with Dublin City Council and Sustainable Days

TO WATCH

Time: 1.00 pm
Place: Facebook and Instagram
Suitable for children and families

Join Mary Louise and Eimear for some tips and recipes on how to plan meals wisely, waste less food and eat well!

This is a fun and practical mini-series of cooking programmes with delicious (and easy) recipes with plenty of hints and tips to reduce food waste and save money!

This series is hosted by My Waste in association with Dublin City Council and Sustainable Days.

TO WATCH

Time: 1.15 pm

Place: Facebook and Instagram

Suitable for all audience

Dublin City Council’s Biodiversity Officer outlines some of the biodiversity and sustainability initiatives in St Anne’s Park.  

This series is hosted by Dublin CityParks and Biodiversity with Dublin City Council and Sustainable Days

TO WATCH

Time: 1.30pm

Place: Facebook  and Instagram

Suitable for children and families

Dara is concerned about plastic pollution, so she decided to make a few changes in her life. Join her for some essential tips on how to reduce plastic pollution in our everyday lives.

This series is hosted by Dublin City Council Waste Management in association with Dublin City Council and Sustainable Days.

TO WATCH

Time: 2.00 pm

Place: Facebook Live

Suitable for Children and families

Curious about how we respond to a global problem with scientific evidence?

Now is your chance to chat with climate action practitioners and learn about how we are using evidence to inform policies.

Join Dr. Frank McGovern, Chief Climate Scientist with the EPA, and Chair of JPI, David Dodd, Regional Coordinator of the Dublin Metropolitan Climate Action Regional Office and Céline Reilly, Executive Manager, Dublin City Council Dept. of Environment and Transportation on  Sunday 29^th for a live chat on Sustainable Days Facebook page, get ready your questions!

This event is brought to you by Dublin City Council’s Climate Action Team in association with Sustainable Days

TO WATCH

Time: 2.30pm

Place: Facebook

Suitable for children and families

Join Tina Aughney of Bat Conservation Ireland who explains how to identify Irish pipistrelle species using bat detectors.

This series is hosted by Bat Conservation Ireland  in association with Dublin City Council and Sustainable Days.

TO DO

Time: 3.00 pm

Place: Facebook and Instagram

Suitable for Children and families

Join KanDo Arts to make your own puppet using recyclable materials. This demo is designed to help children express themselves creatively. Get some empty milk and margarine containers and let’s play!

Get How to Make “Rubbish Puppets” guidelines for free puppet-making-guide

This event is hosted by Dublin City Council Waste Management in association with Dublin City Council and Sustainable Days.

TO WATCH

Time: 3.15 pm

Place: Facebook

Suitable for Children and families

Join All Ireland Pollinators Plan to learn about the plan to protect our pollinators!

One third of our bee species are threatened with extinction in Ireland. We know it’s because we have drastically reduced the areas where they can nest and the amount of food (flowers) our landscape provides for them. We can stand back and watch the problem happen, or we can try to do something. The All-Ireland Pollinator Plan is about all of us, from farmers to local authorities, to schools, gardeners and businesses, coming together to try to create an Ireland where pollinators can survive and thrive. The plan provides an important framework to bring together pollinator initiatives from the North and South, and is the start of a process by which we can collectively take positive steps to protect our pollinators and the service they provide into the future. It is a shared plan of action. By working together we can reverse pollinator losses and help restore populations to healthy levels. Over the next five years this Plan aims to build a foundation to bring about a landscape where pollinators can flourish.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBIKqFywxTY&feature=emb_logo

To learn more about All Ireland Pollinator Plan visit https://pollinators.ie/

This event was presented by All Ireland Pollinator Plan in association with Dublin City Council and Sustainable Days.

TO DO

Time: 3.30 pm

Place: Zoom 

Suitable for Children and families

This engaging interactive workshop examines the role science plays in our everyday lives and how it can help us to create a better future, by looking at solutions to global environmental issues such as ocean litter, sources of energy and climate change. The workshop features a range of science activities and experiments that participants can do at home, such as investigating air pollution, creating renewable energy models and climate change actions.

To take part in this workshop at home, you will need:

• Air pollution investigation: four squares of cardboard (30cm x 15cm), Vaseline, string, pen
• Make a solar oven: tea box, scissors, small clear plastic bag, small black plastic bag, tinfoil, scissors, sellotape
• Growing Seeds viewer: 3 small plastic bottles/clear plastic cups, kitchen paper, broad bean seeds, water, marker
• Breakfast with bees: A4 paper, pencils, colouring pencils/markers

There will also be opportunities for audience participation!

This is a family workshop. Places are limited; booking is essential.

To register, please book your space here, you will be emailed the Zoom link to access with instructions closer to the event.

This event is hosted by Rediscovery Centre in association with Dublin City Council and Sustainable Days.

TO DO

Time: 4.00 pm

Place: Facebook Live

Suitable for Children and families

How to reduce our plastic dependency?

Join ECO – UNESCO to talk about plastic habits, in this workshop we will explore the good and the bad sides of modern plastics. We examine our own plastic purchasing habits and formulate a plan to reduce our plastic dependency at both an individual and community level.

This event is presented by ECO-UNESCO in Association with Dublin City Council and Sustainable Days.

More about ECO-UNESCO of Ireland here

TO WATCH

Time: 4.30 pm
Place: Facebook and Instagram
Suitable for children and families

Join Mary Louise and Eimear for some tips and recipes on how to plan meals wisely, waste less food and eat well!

This is a fun and practical mini-series of cooking programmes with delicious (and easy) recipes with plenty of hints and tips to reduce food waste and save money!

This series is hosted by My Waste in association with Dublin City Council and Sustainable Days.

TO WATCH

Time: 7.00 pm & 8.30pm
Place: ZOOM

All audience 

Join Sustainable Days and Dublin City Council for virtual screening of the film, MOTHERLOAD!

Sustainable Days and Dublin City Council present: MOTHERLOAD.

Join us for a virtual screening of MOTHERLOAD at 7pm on Sunday 29th November followed by a panel discussion with

• Liz Canning, film director
• Ellen Cullen, vice chair of Dublin Cycling Campaign
• Joan O’Connell, Monthly Cycles
• Donna Cooney, Cycling Mayor for Dublin  

MOTHERLOAD; an award-winning crowdsourced documentary about a new mother’s quest to understand the increasing isolation and disconnection of the digital age, its planetary impact, and how cargo bikes could be an antidote.

Filmmaker Liz Canning cycled everywhere until she had twins in 2008. Hauling babies via car was not only unsustainable but took the freedom and adventure out of life, and Liz felt trapped. She Googled “family bike” and uncovered a global movement of people replacing cars with cargo bikes: long-frame bicycles designed for carrying passengers and heavy loads. Liz set out to learn more, and MOTHERLOAD was born.

This event is free but registration is essential here. Registered participants will receive a code to view the film as well as a link to join the discussion afterwards. This will be sent out the day before the event. The film screening takes place at 7pm and the post-film discussion will follow at 8.30pm.  

This event is brought to you by Dublin City Council