Nov 2019

				01	02	Woodland Management Sunday 3rd November Rea’s Wood Antrim Free 03
Co–act for Climate Monday 4th November Canada Room & Council Chamber, Lanyon Building, Room 01/052, University Road, Belfast BT7 1NN 04	05	06	Creating Our Sustainable Future Thursday 7th November Queen’s University Belfast, Canada Room and Council Chamber, Lanyon Building, University Road, Belfast BT7 1NN Linen Quarter Regeneration – Café Conversation Thursday 7th November Pug Uglys, 21 Bedford Street, Belfast BT2 7EJ Free 07	Book Launch “Facing Up to Climate Reality: Honesty, Disaster and Hope” Friday 8th November Canada Room, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN Free 08	09	10
Nature Based Solutions – Benefits that biodiversity can provide for organisations and communities Monday 11th November Belfast City Hall, Donegall Square North, Belfast BT1 5GS Free Overcoming Conflict in Marine Energy Monday 11th November Malone Lodge Belfast 11	12	Sustainable Heritage Tourism Conference 2019 Wednesday 13th November Marine Hotel Ballycastle, 1–3 North Street, Ballycastle BT54 6BN 13	The Power of Walking Conference Thursday 14th November Riddel Hall, Queen’s University Belfast Free 14	15	Mucky Route Repairs Saturday 16th November Cushendun, BT44 0PJ 16	Path Clearing – 40th Anniversary Event Sunday 17th November Milford Cutting Co Armagh 10am 17
18	19	Great Autumn Clean–Up Wednesday 20th November Initially meet at Great Hall, Queen’s University Belfast 20	Urban Green Roofs: Policy, Design, Climate, Resilience and Biodiversity Thursday 21st November David Keir Building Hub, Queen’s University Belfast NI Environment Strategy Discussion Workshop Thursday 21st November Rural Community Network Offices, 38a Oldtown Street, Cookstown, Co Tyrone BT80 8EF 21	22	Bramble Bash Saturday 23rd November Whitepark Bay, 152 Whitepark Road, Ballintoy BT54 6NH Return of the Hedges Saturday 23rd November White Park Bay, 152 Whitepark Road, Ballintoy BT54 6NH 23	24
25	2019 NI Environmental Benchmarking Survey Results Launch Tuesday 26th November Belfast Harbour 26	NICVA General Election 2019 Hustings Event Wednesday 27th November NICVA, 61 Duncairn Gardens, Belfast BT15 2GB Act on air pollution: Save lives Wednesday 27th November The MAC, 10 Exchange Street West, BT1 2NJ 27	Hydrogen and Alternative Low Emission Fuels Seminar Thursday 28th November e3 Campus, 398 Springfield Road, Belfast BT12 7DU 28	Climate Change, Decarbonisation and The Net Zero Report Friday 29th November Grand Central Hotel, Bedford Street, Belfast £0 Member. £50 (+VAT) non–Member 29	30

UK dairy is a plastic–free first 29 November 2019

Cut the wrap! UK dairy farm aims to be first to go single–use plastic–free (via The Guardian)

dairy cows

By Tom Levitt

Lying in a field of grass among his herd of dairy cows, Ayrshire farmer Bryce Cunningham picks up and pretends to throw away a plastic carton of milk. This is what we want to get rid of on our farm, he says in a promotional video, as he explains his quest to become the UK’s first single–use plastic–free milk producer.

After raising more than £10,000 from a crowdfunding campaign, he’s managed to replace single–use plastic cartons with 32,000 glass bottles adorned with the face of Robert Burns – who’s said to have once worked on the farmland – which he is able to wash and reuse.

There are, of course, other farms selling milk in glass bottles, but Bryce is now also eliminating single–use plastics from feed, chemicals and other inputs bought onto the farm, as well as finding alternatives to plastic silage wraps used to store fodder for feeding the cows over the winter.

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Nov 2019

Woodland Management

Co–act for Climate

Creating Our Sustainable Future

Linen Quarter Regeneration – Café Conversation

Book Launch “Facing Up to Climate Reality: Honesty, Disaster and Hope”

Nature Based Solutions – Benefits that biodiversity can provide for organisations and communities

Overcoming Conflict in Marine Energy

Sustainable Heritage Tourism Conference 2019

The Power of Walking Conference

Mucky Route Repairs

Path Clearing – 40th Anniversary Event

Great Autumn Clean–Up

Urban Green Roofs: Policy, Design, Climate, Resilience and Biodiversity

NI Environment Strategy Discussion Workshop

Bramble Bash

Return of the Hedges

2019 NI Environmental Benchmarking Survey Results Launch

NICVA General Election 2019 Hustings Event

Act on air pollution: Save lives

Hydrogen and Alternative Low Emission Fuels Seminar

Climate Change, Decarbonisation and The Net Zero Report

UK dairy is a plastic–free first 29 November 2019

Cut the wrap! UK dairy farm aims to be first to go single–use plastic–free (via The Guardian)