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Westport Town Hall Theatre will host the event.
One Westport's Circular Economy event is taking place on Saturday next, June 15 from 10am to 4pm at the Westport Town Hall Theatre, Westport. The theme of the event is 'Change One Thing' and the group hopes to encourage everyone, from individuals to business and organisations to 'change one thing' to accelerate the transition to a circular economy. This event is free and open to all the public.
The following is the schedule for what will be a very busy day:
Start time:
13.00 hrs - Fin Keegan, Editor
12.10 hrs - Dr Derek McLoughlin, Ecologist/Project Manager at LIFE IP Wild Nature Time.
13.20 hrs - Dr Mairead Hurley, Assistant Professor in Science Education, School of Education Trinity College, Dublin
13.30 hrs - Jacinta Barrins, Former UN Resident Coordinator, UNDP Resident Representative in Asia and Africa, currently pioneering through behavioural change a program to reduce the carbon footprint of the over 60s
13.40 - PANEL: FOOD (Moderator – McKinley Neal) with Caithriona McCarthy, Edible Landscape Project CLG; Eoin Heverin, Foodie Save App; Dr Derek McLoughlin, Jacinta Barrins, Dr Mairead Hurley.
BREAK
14.10 - Carla Rosenkranz, Barter Chain
14.20 - Terri Metcalfe, Poet
14.25 - Kate Carty, Writer
14.30 - Steve O’Reilly, Circular Economy communications and Policy, Rediscovery Centre, Dublin
14.40 - Pooja – PhD scholar, School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, University of Galway.
BREAK
14.55 Dr Orla Nic Suibhne, County mentor for SEAI Sustainable Energy community programme in Mayo and Galway
15.15 PANEL – ENERGY (Moderator – Feena Kirkhamm) with Kevin Loftus, Architect, Urbanist and co-founder of ACT; Michael Lennon, Westport Woods Hotel; Richard Mannion, Climate Action Louisburgh; Dr Orla Nic Suibhne, Dr Mark Kelly, Dr Corine Nzeteu, Researcher, School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, University of Galway, and Pooja.
15.45 Closing statement.
This event is free to the pubic and is supported by Mayo County Council and Caro. All welcome.
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