Sustainability Week 2011
Monday 31st October - Friday 4th November 2011
Sustainability Week provides an opportunity for the University and wider community to work together to help drive forward the sustainable development agenda. While it is an opportunity to showcase Cardiff University’s world-leading research and teaching in the field of sustainability, it is also a chance for everyone to join in and make a concerted effort to reduce our impact on the planet by becoming more socially, economically, culturally and environmentally aware when it comes to the decisions we make and the actions we take. Below are a selection of events organised by BRASS. For a full list of Cardiff University Sustainability Week Events, please click here. For further information on any of these events, please email: thomase26@cf.ac.uk
To find out more about the ESRC Festival of Social Science, please click here
Monday 31st October 
Eco-Halloween Fayre
Main Building, Cardiff University
11am-4pm
How much do you know about sustainability? Come along to try out fun activities and learn about social and environmental sustainability issues with a Halloween twist!
Lots of exciting stalls with groups, organisations and local businesses promoting ethical products, Halloween food and recipes, costume ideas, craft activities, face-painting tips and lots more! Learn how to be an ethical ghoul or an eco wizard!
An event being held by BRASS as part of Cardiff University’s Sustainability Week and the ESRC’s Festival of Social Science, to raise awareness about environmental and social sustainability with a Halloween twist!
Groups, organisations and local businesses will raise awareness of environmental, Fairtrade and social issues. Issues will range from promoting more sustainable food, clothing and energy options to local youth engagement work and international environmental projects.
BRASS is pleased to announce that the following groups, organisations and local businesses will be at the Eco Halloween Fayre with many more to follow:
Lush Cosmetics
Halcyon Daze
Size of Wales
Cardiff Digs
YMCA Prefab Boutique
Canton Carbon Cutters,
RSPB,
National Museum of Wales,
Oxfam Boutique,
Eco-Explore,
FairDo’s, Cardiff University Catering,
Cardiff University Staff Volunteering Stand.
Fruit & Veg Co-Op and many more will be there!
To download the poster, please click here
For more info contact: Laura James
02920 876562
JamesL10@cf.ac.uk
www.brass.cf.ac.uk
Tuesday 1st November
#BRASSChallenge - Ideas that Inspire
Sustaining Business Success: Future-proofing your business
Coed-y-Mwstwr Hotel, Coychurch, Bridgend, CF35 6AF
1st November 2011 - the event will start at 9.30am prompt and finish with a buffet lunch and networking at 12pm.
In a world of diminishing resources, the challenge of delivering a sustainable business model is greater than ever. How can businesses be commercially successful while helping to create a more sustainable society and economy in a world with diminished credit, disposable income and natural resources? This event will focus on issues such as resilience, horizon-scanning, route mapping and forging potential partnerships to capitalise on opportunities to future-proof the way you lead and manage your business.
This event will feature a keynote speech from Peter Head CBE, named as one of The Guardian’s 50 people who could save the planet and by Time Magazine as one of 30 global eco-heroes who will be introduced by Dr Calvin Jones, an Economist at Cardiff Business School.
The Challenge series consists of cutting-edge talks and high-level networking events designed to challenge the way business people think, lead and manage. This event has been organised by Leadership & Management Wales and the BRASS Research Centre.
Speakers: Peter Head CBE, founder of The Ecological Sequestration Trust, formerly of Arup & Partners Limited and Dr. Calvin Jones, Cardiff University.
Tweeters:please use #BRASSChallenge before and throughout the event to exchange ideas
Attendance at the event is free, though there will be charges for non-attendence to cover costs. Book you place now via: http://swthechallenge.eventbrite.com/
Sugar Cane Photo exhibition (1-4 November)
Photographed as part of his research carried out for BRASS, Dr Peter Wells documented the process of the ethanol production from sugar cane in a small-scale alchohol plant in Brazil. The resulting series of photographs beautifully illustrates the process from harvesting the sugar cane to the finished ethanol storage and demonstrates the developing interest in small-scale, integrated and localised ethanol production for bio-plastic as part of a locally sustainable agro-industrial ecosystem. This photo-story will be displayed in the Main Building VJ Gallery, Cardiff University from Tuesday 1st November - Friday 4th November.
You can also view the photo story by clicking here
A Cardiff University sciSCREEN event
Film: Silent Running
Tuesday 1st October
6pm - Chapter Arts Centre, Market Road, Canton, Cardiff, CF5 1QE
Directed by Douglas Turnbull, Silent Running is a 1972 sci-ficlassic that draws on the theme of sustainability and the importance of forestry.
The storyline:
Freeman Lowell looks after plants in giant space greenhouses. Back on earth, all the trees have long vanished, so Lowell puts a lot of heart into his work. When orders from earth are received to destroy the greenhouses, Lowell can't go through with it, and cannot persuade his three colleagues to help him save the plants, so he makes other "arrangements".
Speakers:
Dr Rhodri Evans
Research Fellow, School of Physics &
Astronomy, Cardiff University
Head of Maths & Physics, Wales International Study Centre
Lori Frater
Senior Research Manager, BRASS, Cardiff University
Dr Chris North
Researcher & UK Herschel Outreach Officer, Cardiff University
Speaker 4
TBC
Organised by Laura James and Cerys Ponting, BRASS with support form Dr Katie Featherstone and Dr Jamie Lewis Cesagen, Cardiff University
Contact: jamesl10@cf.ac.uk
Tickets
£6.60 (£6 adv)
Concessions £4.80 (£4.50 adv)
Booking: 029 2030 4400
www.chapter.org
For a full list of Cardiff University Sustainability Week Events, please click here
