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Sustainability Week 2026

Sustainability Week offers a range of events, talks, workshops and activities to engage our University community in sustainability.

Get involved in Sustainability Week 2026 (2-6 March). Attend an event, talk, workshop or activity. Browse all our opportunities below.

Upcoming events

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Monday 2 March 2026 9am

Come to the Piazza Building to view a student-led, sustainable art exhibition!

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Monday 2 March 2026 11am

Do you have an item of clothing that needs a bit of TLC? Come along to our workshop to learn how to give your clothing items a new lease of life!

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Monday 2 March 2026 12.30pm

Join Professor Robin Perutz for a unique exploration of the nature found on campus.

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Monday 2 March 2026 4pm

Join us to experience what it’s like to create your own climate future using grounded conversations; the resulting experience is hopeful, scientifically-grounded, action-oriented, and eye-opening.

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Tuesday 3 March 2026 11am

Join experts from the Institute for Safe Autonomy and Estates Department to discover more about renewable energy and how we are embracing it on campus.

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Tuesday 3 March 2026 11am

Join York Cares in celebrating spring with this feel good, campus clean-up event.

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Tuesday 3 March 2026 12pm

Join us to experience what it’s like to create your own climate future using grounded conversations; the resulting experience is hopeful, scientifically-grounded, action-oriented, and eye-opening.

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Tuesday 3 March 2026 12pm

Hosted by SeasonWell. Learn how you can eat with the seasons and make a windowsill planter to take home with you.

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Tuesday 3 March 2026 12.30pm

Learn how to repair and re-style your clothes with us!

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Tuesday 3 March 2026 2pm

Interested in exploring the environmental challenges of the current food system and what it could look like in 2050?Join this interactive workshop to explore what technologies are driving this transformation.

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Tuesday 3 March 2026 3pm

This lecture focuses on how design can be leveraged as a potent tool for driving positive societal and environmental change.

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Tuesday 3 March 2026 7pm

Join York for Life Sustainability Network for an online panel discussion focusing on digitalisation and decarbonisation.

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Wednesday 4 March 2026 10am

Get your bike ready for spring with a free appointment with the Bike Doctor.

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Wednesday 4 March 2026 12.30pm

Come and swap your clothes, hosted by the Innovation Close Green Impact team.

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Wednesday 4 March 2026 1pm

Join York Students’ Union in James Hall on Campus West for a sustainability-themed fair.

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Wednesday 4 March 2026 1.30pm

Join the Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity and our own Grounds staff to plant a blackthorn thicket on Campus East.

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Wednesday 4 March 2026 1.30pm

Take part in a 3-hour interactive workshop to understand the causes and consequences of climate change and how to take action.

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Thursday 5 March 2026 9am

Join us for a plogging session, a combination of litter picking and jogging!

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Thursday 5 March 2026 12pm

Browse the Big Clothes Swap and find yourself something beautiful for your wardrobe!

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Thursday 5 March 2026 12pm

Come to the Environment Building for a sustainability fair, featuring hands-on sustainability activities and student society stalls.

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Thursday 5 March 2026 5pm

Come along to watch a screening of Días de abundancia/Days of Thunder, followed by a panel discussion.

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Thursday 5 March 2026 7.30pm

Join the James JCRC Environment reps for a film night in the lodge with free snacks, screening The Shark Whisperer.

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Friday 6 March 2026 9am

Get carbon literate with our two half-day online training workshops.

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Friday 6 March 2026 12pm

Come along and make your own Climate Zine!

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Friday 6 March 2026 1pm

Come and help with some park maintenance and gardening.

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