Final day of Climate Action Weekend

Given the weather forecast for today, it's fortunate that a number of the events for the final day of the Kildare Climate Action Weekend are online, writes Brian Byrne. It might be advisable to bring rain gear for the outdoor events.

Meantime the scheduled events kick off at 10am in Monread Park, Naas, where Kildare PPN and Naas Biodiversity Group partner with yoga teacher and reflexologist Danielle Griffin to provide an energising, rejuvenating and fun yoga session in nature. Suitable for all ages and skill levels of Yoga.

Also from Monread Park a Sustainable Energy Community Walk and Talk is slated from 11.30am (Update: Cancelled), with SEAI Community Energy Mentor for Kildare Emer Conway. The walk is about 2.4km.

A Zoom discussion from 1pm on the interface between health and climate action, Air Quality in our Towns and Villages, will highlight what we all can do to improve air quality in our locality and mitigate the health effects of it. Guest speaker is Dr Colm Byrne, Consultant Geriatrician in the Mater Hospital who has recently completed a doctorate on the effects of air pollution on short term stroke risk in Ireland.

A Lodge Bog Walk from the Bog of Allen Nature Centre in Lullymore (Update: Cancelled) is the feature outdoor event this afternoon, starting at 2pm. Among the details of this Irish Peatland Conservation Council (IPCC) hosted event is an exploration of the fascinating history of peatland formation, and also a demonstration IPCC’s current carbon project which is to calculate the stored carbon within the habitat.

An hour-long talk on Zoom from 4pm will discuss two key questions on climate change, Why are we stuck? and Is our relationship with the natural world broken?. Dr Eoin Galavan and Ann Walsh lead.

The final event is at 6pm on the Kildare Public Participation Network Youtube (Kildare PPN are the organisers of the whole weekend) with a discussion on Local Food, Local Resilience: Climate Impacts on our Communities. Speakers Cecilia Ramondetta and Evonne Boland will join local community experts for a chat on food security, the implications of climate change on our communities and what we can do as communities to become more resilient.

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