King’s Climate & Sustainability Month offers you an opportunity to learn more about sustainability topics, collaborate and connect with others from across King’s, and take action on the climate crisis. Join the final week for a tree planting afternoon, a sustainability careers night, a climate action Q&A, a community mobilisation workshop, and more. Don’t forget to follow us on Instagram and Twitter for updates.
Check out the events taking place this week:
| Monday 27th | 12-13 (Strand) | Climate Change: What can we do? | Join this student-activist-academic-led panel as part of the Associateship of King’s College (AKC).
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| 15.30-16.30 (Waterloo) | Stitch and Pitch: Volunteering | Share your ideas, meet new people and learn about volunteering while honing your creative skills.
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| Various | King’s Entrepreneurship Week – Day 1 | Join an entrepreneurship hackathon, a workshop on how to build diverse teams, and a discussion about whether cities can be sustainable.
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| Tuesday 28th | 12-13 (Online) | Q&A with the Collective for Climate Action | Find out more about this network of climate networks including 300 government organisations.
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| Various | King’s Entrepreneurship Week – Day 2 | Learn about how to spark disruptive ideas and gain insight into fast-paced innovation in health.
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| Wednesday 1st | 15-16 (Online) | Ethical and Fairtrade consumption | What does Fairtrade mean? What are its limitations? How accessible are ethical choices?
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| 17.30-20.30 (Guy’s) | Stolen Climate: Global Perspectives of Fire on Earth | Explore how we understand wildfires from their interaction with the Earth’s atmosphere to their relationship with colonialism.
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| Various | King’s Entrepreneurship Week – Day 3 | Find out how to develop entrepreneurial ideas using feedback and share yours in a speed mentoring session.
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| Thursday 2nd | 12-13.30 (Online) | Community organising & change-making
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Join this workshop to hear about the power of community organising to change our societies.
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| 16-18 (Strand) | Engineering Microbial Biotech for Environmental Sustainability | Learn about the role of the Sustainable Development Goals in microbial biotech.
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| 18.30-20 (Residence) | GradPlus: Climate & Sustainability careers | Join the GradPlus team to discover careers related to climate & sustainability.
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| Various | King’s Entrepreneurship Week – Day 4 | Hear about the career journeys of three successful women and uncover disability bias in entrepreneurship.
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Friday 3rd |
12-14 (Honour Oak Park) | Tree planting afternoon | Enjoy being outdoors and meet new people while helping us plant over 200 trees.
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| Various | King’s Entrepreneurship Week – Day 5 | Learn how to create an entrepreneurial CV and enjoy the week’s closing networking party. | |
| All week | Fairtrade Fortnight (27th of February – 12th of March) | Choosing Fairtrade supports producers in protecting the future of some of our most-loved food and the planet. |
