DCU Institute for Climate and Society
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Institute for Climate and Society in @dublincityuni. We focus on the policy, media, political and education aspects of climate change.
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Mary Lawlor @marylawlorhrds.bsky.social, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders, delivers keynote address at DCU Institute for Climate and Society @dcuclimate.bsky.social annual conference.
Read more here: launch.dcu.ie/4lQ77Ju
#DCUClimate2025
Read more here: launch.dcu.ie/4lQ77Ju
#DCUClimate2025
April 29, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Mary Lawlor @marylawlorhrds.bsky.social, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders, delivers keynote address at DCU Institute for Climate and Society @dcuclimate.bsky.social annual conference.
Read more here: launch.dcu.ie/4lQ77Ju
#DCUClimate2025
Read more here: launch.dcu.ie/4lQ77Ju
#DCUClimate2025
To close off #DCUClimate2025, Institute for Climate & Society Co-Director Professor Pat Brereton offers some reflections on the day's events
April 29, 2025 at 3:25 PM
To close off #DCUClimate2025, Institute for Climate & Society Co-Director Professor Pat Brereton offers some reflections on the day's events
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In Lebanon, a guy being interviewed by
@hannahmcccarthy.bsky.social objected to the term ‘seed bank’, because they hate the banks, which have recently collapsed. They call them ‘seed libraries’.
#DCUClimate2025 @dcuclimate.bsky.social
@hannahmcccarthy.bsky.social objected to the term ‘seed bank’, because they hate the banks, which have recently collapsed. They call them ‘seed libraries’.
#DCUClimate2025 @dcuclimate.bsky.social
April 29, 2025 at 3:13 PM
In Lebanon, a guy being interviewed by
@hannahmcccarthy.bsky.social objected to the term ‘seed bank’, because they hate the banks, which have recently collapsed. They call them ‘seed libraries’.
#DCUClimate2025 @dcuclimate.bsky.social
@hannahmcccarthy.bsky.social objected to the term ‘seed bank’, because they hate the banks, which have recently collapsed. They call them ‘seed libraries’.
#DCUClimate2025 @dcuclimate.bsky.social
@dpmrobbins.bsky.social: what does media get right and wrong in reporting on climate?
@marcusstewart.bsky.social (Earth Horizon Productions): we need more climate literacy in newsrooms.
Priyanka Borpujari (PhD student, DCU): we need to ask questions, listen to people's stories
#DCUClimate2025
@marcusstewart.bsky.social (Earth Horizon Productions): we need more climate literacy in newsrooms.
Priyanka Borpujari (PhD student, DCU): we need to ask questions, listen to people's stories
#DCUClimate2025
April 29, 2025 at 3:04 PM
@dpmrobbins.bsky.social: what does media get right and wrong in reporting on climate?
@marcusstewart.bsky.social (Earth Horizon Productions): we need more climate literacy in newsrooms.
Priyanka Borpujari (PhD student, DCU): we need to ask questions, listen to people's stories
#DCUClimate2025
@marcusstewart.bsky.social (Earth Horizon Productions): we need more climate literacy in newsrooms.
Priyanka Borpujari (PhD student, DCU): we need to ask questions, listen to people's stories
#DCUClimate2025
The panelists discuss their experiences of reporting on the climate front lines, noting the intersection of climate change with the social, political and economic. If you just write about climate change “you’re not getting the full story” - @hannahmcccarthy.bsky.social #DCUClimate2025
April 29, 2025 at 2:34 PM
The panelists discuss their experiences of reporting on the climate front lines, noting the intersection of climate change with the social, political and economic. If you just write about climate change “you’re not getting the full story” - @hannahmcccarthy.bsky.social #DCUClimate2025
Our final panel of #DCUClimate2025: Reporting from the climate front lines
April 29, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Our final panel of #DCUClimate2025: Reporting from the climate front lines
On the theme of this year's conference - activism, storytelling and the arts - up next is a poetry reading by poet and writer, Grace Wilentz, Writer-in-Residence at Notre Dame, Dublin #DCUClimate2025
April 29, 2025 at 2:12 PM
On the theme of this year's conference - activism, storytelling and the arts - up next is a poetry reading by poet and writer, Grace Wilentz, Writer-in-Residence at Notre Dame, Dublin #DCUClimate2025
AlanJames: the language used around climate issues “is devoid of any emotion” - let's think not of climate action but “climate love”
Trish: “it absolutely needs to be all hands on deck” - let's each of us think: "well what the hell can I do with my few skills?"
#DCUClimate2025
Trish: “it absolutely needs to be all hands on deck” - let's each of us think: "well what the hell can I do with my few skills?"
#DCUClimate2025
April 29, 2025 at 1:58 PM
AlanJames: the language used around climate issues “is devoid of any emotion” - let's think not of climate action but “climate love”
Trish: “it absolutely needs to be all hands on deck” - let's each of us think: "well what the hell can I do with my few skills?"
#DCUClimate2025
Trish: “it absolutely needs to be all hands on deck” - let's each of us think: "well what the hell can I do with my few skills?"
#DCUClimate2025
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Thinking about climate science, art and activism @dcuclimate.bsky.social #DCUClimate2025
AlanJames Burns talks about the real impacts on disabled communities of climate change, and the lack of access to knowledge & nature.
Dr Trish Morgan describes the importance of de-siloing.
AlanJames Burns talks about the real impacts on disabled communities of climate change, and the lack of access to knowledge & nature.
Dr Trish Morgan describes the importance of de-siloing.
April 29, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Thinking about climate science, art and activism @dcuclimate.bsky.social #DCUClimate2025
AlanJames Burns talks about the real impacts on disabled communities of climate change, and the lack of access to knowledge & nature.
Dr Trish Morgan describes the importance of de-siloing.
AlanJames Burns talks about the real impacts on disabled communities of climate change, and the lack of access to knowledge & nature.
Dr Trish Morgan describes the importance of de-siloing.
@trishmorgan.bsky.social from DCU School of Communications challenges our use of the word 'art', which "puts a moniker" on something “intrinsically human”
Rebecca Wilson of @researchireland.bsky.social highlights the need to "empower" the public by making research more accessible
#DCUClimate2025
Rebecca Wilson of @researchireland.bsky.social highlights the need to "empower" the public by making research more accessible
#DCUClimate2025
April 29, 2025 at 1:40 PM
@trishmorgan.bsky.social from DCU School of Communications challenges our use of the word 'art', which "puts a moniker" on something “intrinsically human”
Rebecca Wilson of @researchireland.bsky.social highlights the need to "empower" the public by making research more accessible
#DCUClimate2025
Rebecca Wilson of @researchireland.bsky.social highlights the need to "empower" the public by making research more accessible
#DCUClimate2025
Artist, curator and festival maker AlanJames Burns, highlights the challenges faced by disabled and differently abled people in engaging in climate action - and how they are often forgotten in activism #DCUClimate2025
April 29, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Artist, curator and festival maker AlanJames Burns, highlights the challenges faced by disabled and differently abled people in engaging in climate action - and how they are often forgotten in activism #DCUClimate2025
Dr Eileen Hutton, Artist and Head of Art and Ecology, Burren College of Art, discusses "how we read the landscape" - how we can foster place-based responses to environmental challenges #DCUClimate2025
April 29, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Dr Eileen Hutton, Artist and Head of Art and Ecology, Burren College of Art, discusses "how we read the landscape" - how we can foster place-based responses to environmental challenges #DCUClimate2025
Up next ▶️ our third panel of the day: Climate science, art and activism #DCUClimate2025
April 29, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Up next ▶️ our third panel of the day: Climate science, art and activism #DCUClimate2025
“We want to live in community like the mosses do, like the trees do” - write Kerri Ní Dochartaigh at the #DCUClimate2025 annual conference
April 29, 2025 at 12:00 PM
“We want to live in community like the mosses do, like the trees do” - write Kerri Ní Dochartaigh at the #DCUClimate2025 annual conference
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“Be more oak!” Kerri Ní Dochartaigh describes how a single oak tree cares for more than 2,000 species.
Rosie O’Reilly on the rights of nature: “where is nature in the university?” She calls on us to de-silo & apply critical thinking.
#Art and #environment
@dcuclimate.bsky.social #DCUClimate2025
Rosie O’Reilly on the rights of nature: “where is nature in the university?” She calls on us to de-silo & apply critical thinking.
#Art and #environment
@dcuclimate.bsky.social #DCUClimate2025
April 29, 2025 at 11:51 AM
“Be more oak!” Kerri Ní Dochartaigh describes how a single oak tree cares for more than 2,000 species.
Rosie O’Reilly on the rights of nature: “where is nature in the university?” She calls on us to de-silo & apply critical thinking.
#Art and #environment
@dcuclimate.bsky.social #DCUClimate2025
Rosie O’Reilly on the rights of nature: “where is nature in the university?” She calls on us to de-silo & apply critical thinking.
#Art and #environment
@dcuclimate.bsky.social #DCUClimate2025
Luke Casserly, multidisciplinary performance maker, discusses slowness, intimacy and care in their artistic practice
@lnhowley.bsky.social from the DCU School of English discusses the use of eco-criticism in teaching: “It is easier to engage with your environment through art”
#DCUClimate2025
@lnhowley.bsky.social from the DCU School of English discusses the use of eco-criticism in teaching: “It is easier to engage with your environment through art”
#DCUClimate2025
April 29, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Luke Casserly, multidisciplinary performance maker, discusses slowness, intimacy and care in their artistic practice
@lnhowley.bsky.social from the DCU School of English discusses the use of eco-criticism in teaching: “It is easier to engage with your environment through art”
#DCUClimate2025
@lnhowley.bsky.social from the DCU School of English discusses the use of eco-criticism in teaching: “It is easier to engage with your environment through art”
#DCUClimate2025
POV: writer Kerri Ní Dochartaigh asks us to close our eyes, root ourselves in the ground and think of the structures that support us - most of all, the earth. "Art is mother earth." #DCUClimate2025
April 29, 2025 at 11:34 AM
POV: writer Kerri Ní Dochartaigh asks us to close our eyes, root ourselves in the ground and think of the structures that support us - most of all, the earth. "Art is mother earth." #DCUClimate2025
"Art doesn't give us something. It is something... Art is nature, and nature is art" - visual artist Rosie O'Reilly offers reflections on the arts and the environment #DCUClimate2025
April 29, 2025 at 11:23 AM
"Art doesn't give us something. It is something... Art is nature, and nature is art" - visual artist Rosie O'Reilly offers reflections on the arts and the environment #DCUClimate2025
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“At our annual conference today, we are delighted to be able to spotlight a diverse range of contributions to the climate and ecological crises through activism, storytelling and the arts.” says Director @dcuclimate.bsky.social Dr Diarmuid Torney @diarmuidtorney.bsky.social #DCUClimate2025
April 29, 2025 at 11:18 AM
“At our annual conference today, we are delighted to be able to spotlight a diverse range of contributions to the climate and ecological crises through activism, storytelling and the arts.” says Director @dcuclimate.bsky.social Dr Diarmuid Torney @diarmuidtorney.bsky.social #DCUClimate2025
@dhandprof.bsky.social opens our panel with some reflections on the role of art: “Art can give us a narrative around this crisis”, creating stories we can engage with #DCUClimate2025
April 29, 2025 at 11:20 AM
@dhandprof.bsky.social opens our panel with some reflections on the role of art: “Art can give us a narrative around this crisis”, creating stories we can engage with #DCUClimate2025
Up next ▶️ our second panel of the day: The arts and the environment #DCUClimate2025
April 29, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Up next ▶️ our second panel of the day: The arts and the environment #DCUClimate2025
Some great responses from our panel to the question of how we can best support human rights defenders. Panelists noted the role of collaboration, training, the media, but also, importantly, respecting human rights defenders' own agency. Now to audience Q&A #DCUClimate2025
April 29, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Some great responses from our panel to the question of how we can best support human rights defenders. Panelists noted the role of collaboration, training, the media, but also, importantly, respecting human rights defenders' own agency. Now to audience Q&A #DCUClimate2025
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Sarah De Roure from @frontlinedefenders.bsky.social says environmental defenders know what support they need.
Fidelma O’Kane from Save Our Sperrins describes the imbalance of resources between activists and companies, and the need for networks of support. @dcuclimate.bsky.social #DCUClimate2025
Fidelma O’Kane from Save Our Sperrins describes the imbalance of resources between activists and companies, and the need for networks of support. @dcuclimate.bsky.social #DCUClimate2025
April 29, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Sarah De Roure from @frontlinedefenders.bsky.social says environmental defenders know what support they need.
Fidelma O’Kane from Save Our Sperrins describes the imbalance of resources between activists and companies, and the need for networks of support. @dcuclimate.bsky.social #DCUClimate2025
Fidelma O’Kane from Save Our Sperrins describes the imbalance of resources between activists and companies, and the need for networks of support. @dcuclimate.bsky.social #DCUClimate2025
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Irish people wanting to take action to protect the environment should focus on their TDs (members of parliament) - a concerted campaign of writing to public representatives can be very effective says Mary Lawlor @marylawlorhrds.bsky.social , speaking at the @dcuclimate.bsky.social conference today.
April 29, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Irish people wanting to take action to protect the environment should focus on their TDs (members of parliament) - a concerted campaign of writing to public representatives can be very effective says Mary Lawlor @marylawlorhrds.bsky.social , speaking at the @dcuclimate.bsky.social conference today.