Sustainability - News & Events | Trinity College Dublin

Key stakeholders work to restore pollinator habitats across agricultural landscapes

Researchers in the People and Nature group (from Trinity’s Department of Botany) recently delivered the first Irish RestPoll stakeholder workshop, with the goal of restoring pollinator habitats across agricultural landscapes by working in tandem with farmers, land managers and other groups to deliver win-win solutions.

17 Sep 2024

Environment|Research|Science|Sustainability

Tree of the month - ‘Rouge de Touilliere’

This month we are bringing you a very special newly planted tree. Albizia julibrissin, or ‘Rouge de Touilliere’ is commonly known as ‘Chinese or Persian Silk Tree’ and is described by Barcham Tree Specialists as the "Holy Grail of trees". You can find this tree nearly centrally located in the lawn behind Rubrics, facing the Book of Kells Experience.

30 Aug 2024

Sustainability

Trinity student named in Top 30 Under 30 Environmental Educators in the World

Trinity PhD candidate Luke Gibbons has been selected by the North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE) as one of the Top 30 Under 30 Environmental Educators in the World 2024.

20 Aug 2024

Awards and Funding|Environment|Students|Sustainability

Trinity welcomes Professor Karen Wiltshire as first CRH Chair of Climate Science

An expert in coastal research and a Trinity alumna, Professor Wiltshire returns to the university from the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven, Germany, where she served as Vice-Director in combination with a professorship in Shelf Sea Ecology at the University of Kiel.

19 Aug 2024

Environment|Innovation|Research|Science|Sustainability

Trinity researchers to receive Grow Phase funding under the National Challenge Fund

Patrick O’Donovan, Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, announced the first nine teams to receive Grow Phase funding under the €65 million fund to work on solutions to major environmental and societal issues.

31 Jul 2024

Awards and Funding|Innovation|Research|Science|Sustainability

Trinity team’s wastewater heat recovery solution earns runner-up prize in Sustainable Development Goals Challenge

The REHEATZ team, led by Professors Aonghus McNabola, Padraig Carmody and Paul Coughlan have worked to develop the first hybrid wastewater heat recovery technology for application in Zambian food production.

22 Jul 2024

Awards and Funding|Environment|Research|Sustainability

If this analysis of Dublin's transport plan was submitted by a student, I would fail it

Trinity economist Barra Roantree has written a piece originally for The Journal that is critical of an analysis produced on Dublin City's traffic management plan

15 Jul 2024

Business|Community|Sustainability

If this analysis of Dublin's transport plan was submitted by a student, I would fail it

In an opinion piece originally published by The Journal, Trinity economist Barra Roantree us critical of new economic analysis that claims to show a lot of problems with the new Dublin city transport plan – but it doesn’t stack up

15 Jul 2024

Community|Environment|Sustainability

Tree of the Month - Dawn Redwood

This month we are featuring the Dawn Redwood or Metasequoia glyptostroboides, which is significant to have in our collection due to its status as an endangered species. One can be found in New Square in front of the Book of Kells experience, and another specimen can be found in Trinity’s Botanic Gardens in the Western arboretum.

4 Jul 2024

Community|Sustainability

Tree of the month - Wollemi Pine

Wollemi Pine is one of three living groups of trees from the Araucariaceae, which is an ancient plant family from the Triassic period. It was first discovered about thirty years ago, and that discovery is said to be the equivalent of finding a small dinosaur still alive on earth.

28 May 2024

Environment|Sustainability