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UCD Sustainability @ucdsustainability.bsky.social · 8d

Thank you all so much for hosting and/or attending our 40 UCD SDG Week events throughout last week.

We are thrilled to say we had 1,245 event registrations and amazing participation and engagement across the week.

We hope the video captures a sense of the diverse programme :)

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UCD SDG Week 2025 montage

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University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social · 15d

🌊🧑‍🎓 "There is a real pressure on us to raise our game." Ireland has committed to protecting 30% of its waters by 2030 under the UN biodiversity framework, aimed at halting species decline and restoring marine ecosystems.

@ucdsustainability.bsky.social #SDGweek

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UCD Sustainability @ucdsustainability.bsky.social · Sep 8

UCD is moving away from single-use coffee cups.

Instead, you’ve got two great options...

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University College Dublin launches returnable and reusable cups campaign

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UCD Sustainability @ucdsustainability.bsky.social · Sep 2

UCD SDG Week 2025 takes place September 22 - 26 with 40 events across campus highlighting the Sustainable Development Goals. Eco-artmaking, a 2050 role-playing game, workshops on everything from greenwashing to upcycling your jeans - and more!

Read and register: www.ucd.ie/sustainabili...

#SDGsIRL

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UCD Sustainability @ucdsustainability.bsky.social · Aug 6

After our Ash for Future workshop and campus 'ash walk' last week, our brilliant UCD Sustainability summer intern Kendra Paleczny did this Q&A with UCD landscape architect Sophia Meeres and Teagasc tree improvement researcher Dheeraj Singh Rathore.

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UCD Sustainability summer intern in Q&A with Ash for Future speakers

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UCD Sustainability @ucdsustainability.bsky.social · Aug 6

The decimation of Ireland’s iconic ash trees is heartbreaking - but you can help bring them back.

Ash for future workshop and 'ash walk' on UCD campus last week helps citizen scientists identify and report healthy trees.

Teagasc is breeding and growing these tolerant trees.

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Help the fight against ash dieback disease - by reporting healthy trees to Teagasc

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UCD Sustainability @ucdsustainability.bsky.social · Jul 9

We had great fun yesterday at the eco-artmaking workshop at UCD Greenacre Sustainability Hub with UCD Innovation Academy artist-in-residence, Madeline Schmidt.

We made clay stepping stones with recycled, found and organic materials from Greenacre - and these will be used to decorate the site.

UCD Sustainability @ucdsustainability.bsky.social · Jul 8

What happened when UCD Services stopped mowing a patch of grass between the car park and the road behind the UCD School of Agriculture and Food Science?

In this video, ecologist Dr @darastanley.bsky.social talks about her work monitoring the ensuing wild orchids. 🌸 🦋

#SDGsIRL

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Monitoring pyramidal orchids on rewilded area of University College Dublin

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UCD Sustainability @ucdsustainability.bsky.social · Jul 7

🌳 Ash for Future workshop with Dheeraj Rathore (Teagasc) and Sophia Meeres (UCD), Thursday, July 31st, 10.30am - 12.30pm, UCD James Joyce Library Link 3 for presentation, followed by an ‘ash walk’ on UCD campus.
🥐 Refreshments provided
📝 Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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UCD Sustainability @ucdsustainability.bsky.social · Jul 7

UCD Sustainability recently funded cycle training workshops on campus, organised by UCD Smarter Travel Group and delivered by Colm Sevastopulo, Dublin Bay Cycling.

Participants said it improved their cycling confidence and general knowledge about bike maintenance.

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Cycling training workshops in UCD

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UCD Sustainability @ucdsustainability.bsky.social · Jun 24

Fast fashion is the world's greatest polluter after oil and gas.

Last week at NovaUCD’s annual Student Enterprise Competition, these students pitched ThreadLightly, an app to help people check how sustainable a garment is at the point of purchase.

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UCD students pitch ‘ThreadLightly’ app to tackle fashion waste at NovaUCD enterprise competition

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UCD Sustainability @ucdsustainability.bsky.social · Jun 10

Global Wind Day is on Sunday - and Omega is a new tool funded by UCD Sustainability to optimise wind farm design (and to help account for turbine 'wakes' like those visible in this photo of Denmark's Horns Rev 2 offshore wind farm thanks to low-lying fog!)

Full story:
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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · Jun 10

Two Irish Hares relaxing in the dawn sunshine in the west of Ireland

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UCD Sustainability @ucdsustainability.bsky.social · Jun 10

"Climate change is a disability justice issue.”

Sinéad Burke, writer, academic and disability activist, in conversation with Roe McDermott at the UCD Festival on Saturday.

Audience Q&A covered great topics like how to manage “the rage”.

Heartfelt session.

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UCD Sustainability @ucdsustainability.bsky.social · Jun 3

University College Dublin has officially joined the Race to Zero, a United Nations-backed global campaign uniting institutions across the world in a shared mission to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 50% by 2030 and achieve net zero emissions by 2050.

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UCD Sustainability @ucdsustainability.bsky.social · May 27

UCD’s beautiful Upper Lake used to be a car park. Here UCD Estates Operations Manager Ciarán Bennett explains that the lake is not just a beautiful amenity teeming with wildlife, but a sustainable urban drainage system too.

PS Featuring Dr Adam Kane's bird identification group

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Biodiversity Week 2025: Celebrating UCD’s beautiful Upper Lake - formerly a carpark.

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UCD Sustainability @ucdsustainability.bsky.social · May 19

As part of National Biodiversity Week (May 18 - 23) we spoke to Ciaran Beattie of UCD Estate Services about the remarkable work undertaken to preserve the lime tree next to UCD Village, the award-winning student education and amenity building completed in October 2021.

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Protecting legacy trees on a busy university campus

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Dara Stanley @darastanley.bsky.social · May 16

UCD campus is looking great in the sun this week. Lots of evidence of implementation of the #pollinatorplan @ucdsustainability.bsky.social @ucd-chas.bsky.social #biodiversity

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UCD Sustainability @ucdsustainability.bsky.social · May 12

As UCD nears its digital storage limit, Laura Toby of IT Services gives easy tips for reducing your digital carbon footprint.

PS Deleting just 10 unwanted emails makes a measurable difference.

PPS UCD Innovation Academy students have built a helpful app called DigiFoot.eco.

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Easy steps to reduce your digital footprint

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UCD Sustainability @ucdsustainability.bsky.social · May 12

Look what has arrived in UCD just in time for Biodiversity Week next week! 😍 😍

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Dara Stanley @darastanley.bsky.social · May 9

Come and join us at @ucddublin.bsky.social for some biodiversity identification workshops to mark #biodiveristyweek. Birds, bees, plants, worms, freshwater inverts... Tickets are selling fast! www.eventbrite.ie/e/ucd-biodiv... @ucdsustainability.bsky.social @ucd-chas.bsky.social

UCD Biodiversity Week identification workshops

Join us in UCD this Biodiversity Week for a series of beginner level species identification workshops with biodiversity experts.

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UCD Sustainability @ucdsustainability.bsky.social · Apr 22

The UCD Sustainability Dashboard was nominated in both the Cartographic Design and Community Choice categories at recent Esri Ireland Customer Success Awards.

Pictured: project lead Ainhoa Gonzalez Del Campo, UCD VP Sustainability Tasman Crowe and students involved.

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UCD Sustainability @ucdsustainability.bsky.social · Apr 22

To celebrate #EarthDay today, we went on a field trip with the River Detectives, a group of citizen scientists committed to monitoring and protecting Wicklow streams, led by Prof Mary Kelly-Quinn of @ucddublin.bsky.social

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The River Detectives, Wicklow, Ireland

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UCD Sustainability @ucdsustainability.bsky.social · Apr 9

Yesterday we launched the UCD Sustainability Plan to 2030 and in her opening remarks, UCD president Professor Orla Feely commended it for being “very action-oriented”.

Read the full story - and learn how you can get involved - here: www.ucd.ie/sustainabili...

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UCD Sustainability @ucdsustainability.bsky.social · Apr 9

Yesterday we launched the UCD Sustainability Plan to 2030, a bold roadmap for embedding sustainability across every dimension of university life.

You can take a look at the plan here: www.ucd.ie/sustainabili...

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UCD Sustainability Plan to 2030 launch

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