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SUMMARY:Curious & Creative Gardening Tour: Wildlife-Friendly Museum Gardens
DESCRIPTION:Learn about the initiatives and interventions York Museums Trust’s Gardens Team have made to make their busy public garden more wildlife friendly. Take a tour around over 10 acres of grounds\, discovering inspiration for your own garden or workplace green spaces. \nYou’ll learn about climate change and biodiversity\, discover the importance of insects for the food chain and how to manage your green space throughout the seasons to create wildlife habitat\, and adopt a new perspective with some native weeds. \n  \nSuited to people aged 12+ with an interest in making green spaces more wildlife friendly. Under 16’s must be accompanied by and adult. \nMeet on the hard standing in front of the entrance to the Yorkshire Museum. The tour will take an accessible route around the Museum Gardens. \nYork Museums Trust opens York Museum Gardens free of charge for all to enjoy. As a registered charity\, York Museum Trust encourage visitors to consider donating to enable the Trust to continue maintaining and preserving their gardens and buildings for generations to come. \nBooking required and can be done here. \nPlease note: This event is weather dependant. If adverse weather conditions cause this event to be cancelled\, ticket holders will be notified.
URL:https://yorkenvironmentfestival.org.uk/event/curious-creative-gardening-tour/2025-10-21/
LOCATION:Yorkshire Museum Gardens\, Museum St\, York\, YO1 7FR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Arts & Crafts,Building Sustainably,Family-friendly,Getting Creative,In The Garden,Learning,Out In Nature,Sustainable Business,Sustainable Living
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SUMMARY:York! Get to grips with the Planetary Boundaries @ Patch
DESCRIPTION:Perhaps you’ve got your head around the climate crisis? Or the ecological crisis? It’s already a head scratcher. \nThe Stockholm Resilience Centre have identified 7 other earth systems that we need to be aware of. They call these “planetary boundaries.” They highlight the rising risks from human pressure on nine critical global processes that regulate the stability and resilience of the Earth. \nExplore them in this systemic and collaborative 3-hour workshop. \nSuitable for ages 15+. \nBooking is required and can be done here. \n 
URL:https://yorkenvironmentfestival.org.uk/event/planetary-boundaries-at-patch/
LOCATION:Patch York\, Terry Avenue\, The Bonding Warehouse\, Terry Avenue\, York\, YO16FA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Learning
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SUMMARY:Convening the convenors: connecting climate & green networks across York
DESCRIPTION:Do you work on a project that connects groups doing climate & environment work in York? You might be sharing resources\, fostering collaboration or convening networks. \n\nThree networks – York Climate Commission\, York Environment Forum & York CliConnect – invite the organisers\, business owners & initiatives that bring people together on climate & environment. \n\nThere is great stuff going on; some overlap\, plenty we could cross-pollinate\, some duplication we could avoid & maybe some gaps we could address. \nNo minimum age restriction. Booking is required: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1559464854359?aff=oddtdtcreator
URL:https://yorkenvironmentfestival.org.uk/event/convening-the-convenors/
LOCATION:Patch York\, Terry Avenue\, The Bonding Warehouse\, Terry Avenue\, York\, YO16FA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Climate Justice,Learning,Socials
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251025T150000
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SUMMARY:Solar Skylines: Building a greener energy future for York
DESCRIPTION:Join YCE to design York’s energy future – one building at a time! \nCome along to talk about the different ways we can make York’s energy system cleaner and greener\, and design your own part of a sustainable future for our city. In this interactive session\, we’ll be creating a vision of York’s energy skyline together – building a collage of what the future could look like\, and talking about how we can make that vision a reality\, from individual energy saving to the community energy transition. \nNo minimum age requirement. Booking is recommended. Reserve your tickets: https://buytickets.at/yce/1787526
URL:https://yorkenvironmentfestival.org.uk/event/solar-skylines/
LOCATION:Marriott Room\, York Explore Library\, Marriott Room\, York Explore Library\, Library Square\, Museum Street\, York\, YO1 7DS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Building Sustainably,Learning
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SUMMARY:'How We Made It Through'
DESCRIPTION:A celebration of our community thrutopia creative writing project. ‘How We Made It Through’ invited people to create stories from the future where we’ve made it through – hence ‘thrutopia’. Over thirty individual entries were received\, in media ranging from prose to poetry\, & from collage to needle felting.  \nLearn about the project design and how it can be easily replicated; listen to readings from the anthology; an option to buy your own copy; & reflect on what thrutopia can look like in your own locality. \nNo minimum age requirement. \nCopies of the book will be available for a donation.
URL:https://yorkenvironmentfestival.org.uk/event/how-we-made-it-through/
LOCATION:Friargate Quaker Meeting House\, Friargate Quaker Meeting House\, Friargate\, York\, YO1 9RL\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Getting Creative,Learning,Sustainable Living
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SUMMARY:Climate Change\, Extreme Heat\, and Public Health
DESCRIPTION:York Climate Commission’s Health working group are hosting this session to help those working with at-risk groups or vulnerable communities to explore climate risk and adaptation planning for extreme heat. \nAttendees will hear expert advice on how to plan for extreme heat and have the chance to be involved in an interactive workshop. Groups who might find this session helpful include (but are not limited to): the third sector\, charities\, private businesses\, public health organisations. \nNo minimum age restriction. \nBooking Required. To book email carbon.reduction@york.gov.uk
URL:https://yorkenvironmentfestival.org.uk/event/extreme-heat-and-public-health/
LOCATION:Priory Street Community Centre\, 15 Priory Street\, York\, YO1 6ET
CATEGORIES:Climate Justice,Learning
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SUMMARY:#talkingclimate: A toolkit for more effective conversations
DESCRIPTION:Climate change can be a difficult topic to bring up with your friends\, family or colleagues. It can generate eye rolls\, fact throwing and even arguments. It can be lonely if you feel like the only one worrying. But bringing up climate change in conversation can also be a very powerful thing we can do. So join us for a two hour workshop to build up a practical toolkit\, based on Climate Outreach research\, to practise talking about climate change with your friends\, family and colleagues. \nAge restrictions: 16+ \nPlease book through this link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talkingclimate-a-toolkit-for-more-effective-conversations-tickets-1519693005689
URL:https://yorkenvironmentfestival.org.uk/event/talking-climate-toolkit/
LOCATION:Micklegate Social\, 148-150 Micklegate\, York\, YO1 6JX
CATEGORIES:Learning
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