Mix Your Mode, Parade & March events

Parade, Mix Your Mode, Earth Hour & March Events

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Dear CEF Member Archive,
It's that time of year when we celebrate St. Patrick, Cork has turned this into a 3 day Festival, with the Parade still a focal point, CEF will partake again and its always one of the most fun and sociable events. Saturday the Bandon GAP group have organised an EcoStand at the market, Mix Your Mode, our sustainable travel campaign continues with a focus on the workplace this week transferring to shopping and leisure next week, however, it's all about behavioural change so if you have tried to Mix Your Mode we encourage you to continue. The Lifelong Learning Festival kicks off on Monday with a week long varied programme of  events to appeal to all tastes, CEF has an event at the Lifetime Lab to highlight World Water Day as part of the programme. Lastly a not to be missed event is the Earth Hour event at Blackrock Castle Observatory. Further details on all of these: 

16th March 9.30am -1.30pm - Global Action Plan, Bandon & CEF Mix Your Mode at Bandon Market
The stand will highlight energy saving devices and eco friendly products all available locally.  Learn about composting, how to make your own
water butt and the options available to travel in amore sustainable way.  There will be a Bike Repair workshop (provided by MDM Clonakilty) and West Cork Rural Transport are supporting the initiative with a service from Kilbrittain on Saturday.  FREE facepainting & raffle (great prizes donated by local retailers). This event is also supported by Bandon Family Support & Community Wellbeing Centre.

17th March - St. Patrick's Festival Parade
CEF has participated in this annual event for many years, as always aspects of environmental significance will be highlighted, we are delighted to be joined this year by the Mahon Youth Group who have created wonderful costumes from recycled materials, Cork Community Bikes join us again and our float continues to expand with Blackrock Castle Observatory joining us this year for the first time and adding perhaps a more cosmic dimension. If you want to know more you will just have to join in or come and see for yourself. If interested in participating all you have to do is wear blue - facepainting and accessories provided.

18th -24th March - Mix Your Mode Focus on Shopping & Leisure
This the final week of Mix Your Mode, our sustainable travel campaign, next week will focus on how we get around in relation to shopping and our leisure activities. Why not add a basket and panniers to your bike to turn them into a mobile boot or a kit carrying vehicle. Next time you're heading to a match why not walk, cycle or take a bus.

There is no doubt that the city centre has suffered from out of town shopping centres with free parking, the city centre can be reignited as a quaity and leisurely shopping experience if part of that experience is supported by sustainable travel. Retailers supporting this campaign can get involved by creating shopfront "Mix Your Mode" displays, they will also have a limited number of Mix Your Mode shopping bags to give away. We are interested in hearing from you if you already shop or travel to leisure activities in a more sustainable way.

18th -24th March - Lifelong Learning Festival
The Lifelong Learning Festival celebrates its 10th Anniversary this year and has expanded to include almost 500 FREE events that are truly varied and with an appeal to everyone in the community. There will be a Seminar on the 20th March CITIES OF THE FUTURE: the EcCoWell Approach with keynote speaker Peter Kearns, co-director of PIE, and a leading Australian thinker, researcher, and consultant in lifelong learning and learning communities. Brochures available from libraries, public offices and many other outlets.

22nd March 11am -2.30pm - FREE Composting Workshop at the Lifetime Lab.
Facilitated by Donal Kelly, this workshop is being made available to CEF and associates. If you are beginning to compost or have had difficulties in the past why not come along, Donal will cover all the options available and has a wealth of knowledge to share. Part of the Lifelong Learning Festival Programme.

2pm -4pm - Celebrating World Water Day  
This session will include information on the Water Framework Directive and interactive workshops looking at the history of water in Cork and water conservation in the home. The workshops will give people a chance to learn about the past role of the waterworks and to see and experience water saving devices in action e.g. aerated shower heads, flow restrictors, how to adapt your toilet and many more tips and ideas of saving water in everyday life. Also learn how to make your own water butt!


23rd March 6pm -10pm - Earth Hour at Blackrock Castle Observatory
CEF have teamed up with BCO to highlight Earth Hour. Earth Hour is the single, largest, symbolic mass participation event in the world. Born out of a hope that we could mobilize people to take action on climate change, Earth Hour now inspires a global community of millions of people in 7,001 cities and towns across 152 countries and territories to switch lights off for an hour as a massive show of concern for the environment.

The evening will include NASA’s ViewSpace, a talk on Hydroponics, a short film on the Overview Effect, lights out from 8.30 -9.30 during which a special screening of Trashed will be show. CEF has also posted an I Will If you Will Challenge on the Earth Hour site, please support this by carpooling and /or helping with the beach clean-ups.

Hope to see you at some of these events.


Best regards,

Bernie

Bernie Connolly
Development Coordinator
Mount Camel
Kilcolman
Enniskeane
Co. Cork

Email: bernadette@cef.ie
Mobile: 083 1468064
 

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