Join us for for a half-day of exploring storytelling as a tool for building more inclusive, reciprocal, and place-based research practices, with guest speaker, Lotte Dijkstra.

Join the BE@York Network for a seminar with Mark Corbett, Biorenewables Development Centre Director, exploring the future of bio-based construction materials.

At Retrofit Futures 2025, join Luke Gooding as he shares insights on how local One Stop Shops drive fair retrofit and strengthen community-led climate action.

Join the Tropical Ecosystems Network and help shape the network's future direction and activity

Discover how lessons from UK National Parks are inspiring locally adapted strategies to support sustainable land management and biodiversity conservation in Campos Gerais and the Atlantic Rainforest, Brazil.

Join us for a hybrid workshop to tackle barriers and pathways to a just, sustainable future. A chance to share ideas, spark collaborations, and shape the next steps with global partners.

Join YESI's Environment and Health theme for a talk by Des Fitzgerald about his book 'The City of Today is a Dying Thing

Join our seminar about interdisciplinary research and some of the most fundamental issues related to this mode of working, introduced by Professor of Medical Humanities and Social Sciences, Des Fitzgerald.

Join the Play for the Planet network for Game Night 3: Nature in the City, games to grow greener and wilder urban spaces. Part of the York Environment Festival

Join the InTREEgue Network for a walk along the Native Tree Trail and share your stories of campus trees and nature — from favourite spots and memories to hidden legends beneath the leaves.

Join us for a panel discussion with a visiting multi-stakeholder delegation from Brazil, exploring how different models of National Park governance can support biodiversity, community engagement, and sustainable development.

Join YESI's Environment and Health theme for a guided tour of a retrofit demonstrator home in York.

A workshop looking to bring together researchers who are looking to develop bids to NERC's AI for Environmental Science call

Join YESI for an ECR 'Meet the Editor' session

Join the Play for the Planet network for Game Night 2: Urban Labor-a-tree, part of York Environment Festival

Join the Play for the Planet network for Games Night 1, part of York Environment Festival

With close reference to the art of wall paintings of Purulia, this seminar will explore ways in which Indigenous communities influence natural environment and facilitate newer ways of understanding community ownership and indigenous systems.

Join us for the first session in our new series of monthly InTREEgue meetings, bringing together tree enthusiasts from across the University and beyond.

To mark the International Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies, join researchers from the FOCI project for a webinar on short-lived climate forcers (SLCFs).

What can we learn from the dramatic transformation of British farming after 1940? Join this interdisciplinary workshop to explore how past agricultural revolutions can inform future food systems and policy.

Join our YESI International Fellows seminar with Dr Changjia Li, Beijing Normal University. The seminar will focus on land degradation in drylands, and the ecological impacts of large-scale ecological projects in China’s drylands.

Join the Play for the Planet and playtest Dawn

The InTREEgue network is pleased to host the film premiere of 'The Wonder of Treescapes', join us for the film and to chat with fellow tree lovers afterwards

This Green Trade Lab early career researcher workshop aims to provide a platform for early careers researchers to critically reflect upon ongoing attempts to the greening of global trade.

Join our Hope in Creation workshop, an opportunity for academics and creatives to co-create realistic and aspirational visions of living and thriving in the emerging hotter, stormier, wetter and drier Earth environments that will define our future.

Join our YESI International Fellows seminar with Mirjana Drenovak-Ivanović, exploring how the evolving framework of the European Green Deal is profoundly influencing the legal landscape of EU candidate countries.

Join this YESI/C3SR seminar exploring how cutting-edge Earth observation, GeoAI, and spatial data are shaping land-use planning, climate-smart agriculture, and restoration policies in Eswatini—offering insights for resilience across southern Africa.

Join this webinar Pan on, Fan on: Why Your Home’s Air Quality Matters – for Insights from the INGENIOUS Project

Join this two-day event of learning and celebrating the people and the work conducted by the Africa Research Network at York.

How do age and culture shape our approach to repair? Join the next YESI International Fellows seminar exploring how generational and cultural perspectives influence the Right to Repair, sustainable consumption, and the circular economy.

Join us for Re-rooting the Tree Network: Away Day at the Yorkshire Arboretum

Can ancient water systems help tackle climate change? Join this YESI International Fellows seminar on how Sri Lanka’s Village Tank Cascade Systems could offer NbS's for climate resilience, rural livelihoods, and sustainable water management.

Join us for a dynamic roundtable exploring how AI is reshaping environmental science — from exciting opportunities to critical challenges. Hosted by YESI, ISA, CfAA, and SAINTS CDT.

Join our YESI International Fellows seminar with Prof Chen Zeng, exploring enhancing transboundary climate governance through both global city network and land-spatial optimization.

Join us for a series of workshops looking at how can we overcome barriers and unlock pathways to success in interdisciplinary environmental sustainability.

Join our YESI Knowledge Exchange seminar on the effort to develop a viable and sustainable solution to the management of food waste on the Isles of Scilly, With George Goldberg, Executive Director of the Isles of Scilly Community Venture.

Join this collaborative workshop, coordinated by CAUGH with support from YESI, to explore visions of sustainable built environments and how to achieve them.

Join YESI and IGDC for an exciting workshop series tackling climate change. This session will explore how social science approaches can drive impactful, action-oriented research.

Join us and be among the first to try Urban Labor-a-Tree, an innovative board game. Experience the challenges and rewards of cultivating and managing a vibrant urban treescape while testing your green thumb and strategic thinking.

How can art shape the way we respond to the climate crisis? Join us for a thought-provoking and interactive panel exploring the power of artivism—where creativity meets environmental action.

Join Play for the Planet for a session to help players understand how the small things in life can affect large scale processes around the world

Seeds of Hope and Action is a 25-panel exhibition by SGI and Earth Charter International that inspires individual action for sustainability through powerful stories, interconnection, and the Seeds of Hope and Action campaign.

Join this BE@York seminar with Professor Hannah Lewi (University of Melbourne) as she explores cutting-edge adaptive reuse of historic places in Australia

Join Play for the Planet for a Tipping Point play session and learn about the impacts of climate change and the different responses possible

Join us for a fun, prize-filled nature walk to help York climb the City Nature Challenge leaderboard! Bring your smartphone (with iNaturalist) or a camera—every observation counts!

Do you have experience in game research or design? Are you interested in engaging people with environmental issues through games? Play for the Planet brings together educators, researchers and game developers to engage playfully with games

Can entrepreneurs help reshape our economy for people and planet? Join Jacqueline You to explore how innovation can drive the shift toward a Wellbeing Economy.

Join art historians in conversation with YESI as we explore waste as a heuristic for dialogue across interdisciplinary areas.

A training opportunity for those who have participated in a Climate Fresk workshop. Continue your journey and train up as a facilitator with this 3-hour session.

Join YESI's ECR Grant Incubator Session—a hands-on opportunity to refine your grant ideas with expert feedback from experienced PIs, evaluators, and research services staff!

A resilient, low-carbon future starts with decentralisation. Join Luke Gooding (SEI-Y) to explore how shifting power to the local level—through supply chains, energy, and policy—can create more sustainable, adaptable communities.

Biodiversity Collage turns science into a team game. Work together to connect the causes, mechanisms and effects of the ecological crisis.

Do you want to help tackle climate change? This Climate Fresk workshop will teach you the science behind climate change and empower you to take action.

Join this interactive role-playing game exploring cocoa sustainability! Representing different stakeholders—farmers, chocolate companies, NGOs, or consumers—you’ll navigate trade-offs between livelihoods, supply, and environmental priorities.

Join this YESI International Fellows seminar examining the important role women play in land management and environmental conservation in the Sahel region

Why don’t people make rational home energy decisions? Join Dr. Stephen Hall to explore how ‘relational packages’ shape the way we respond to Net Zero policies—often in surprising ways.

Join YESI and IGDC for an exciting workshop series tackling climate change! This session will dive into the complexities of creating equitable climate actions across society.

Join Play for the Planet for a session exploring game making and play practices as aesthetic interventions in addressing the challenges of global heating.

Joint IGDC/YESI interactive seminar on Environmental Governance with Marilia Luz David