Sustainability - News & Events | Trinity College Dublin

Co-Centre for Climate + Biodiversity + Water launches as over 100 stakeholders come together to shape a more sustainable future

The new Co-Centre will deliver solutions to the most pressing challenges posed by climate change, biodiversity decline and water degradation across Ireland, Northern Ireland and Great Britain.

8 May 2024

Environment|Research|Science|Sustainability

Tree of the Month - Mountain Silverbell

This month we are bringing you one of our newly planted trees in the Physics Lawn, Halesia monticola, commonly known as the Mountain Silverbell or Snowdrop Tree. You’ll find this tree opposite the Loyola Institute, where it was planted to replace the failing Prunus, which is scheduled for removal this year.

24 Apr 2024

Environment|Sustainability

New project aims to bring down the cost of offshore wind turbines

David Igoe, Assistant Professor in Trinity’s School of Engineering, will use a newly secured Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) grant of about €250,000 to support research into the effects of pile ageing for offshore wind foundation design.

10 Apr 2024

Awards and Funding|Research|Science|Sustainability

Researchers use willow trees to revolutionise wastewater treatment in rural Ireland

In a groundbreaking initiative, researchers from the Environmental Engineering group in Trinity’s School of Engineering have embarked on a mission to transform wastewater treatment in rural Ireland.

31 Mar 2024

Environment|Research|Science|Sustainability

Trinity Tree of the Month – Japanese Cherry

This month we are featuring one of Trinity’s most photographed trees, our famous Japanese Cherry tree, or Prunus ‘Shogetsu.’ Its Latin name means moonlight on the pines, or pine tree, in Japanese.

27 Mar 2024

Sustainability

Green Week '24 - 'Healthy Planet, Healthy People'

This has been Trinity’s 22nd year marking Green Week. The event started in 2003 to honour the late Professor Simon Perry, who started the College Recycling and Environment Committee, now known as the Green Campus Committee. After his untimely passing in 2002, the Green Campus Committee decided to hold the first Trinity Green Week in his honour, and the College’s Green Week has grown in strength every year since.

19 Mar 2024

Community|Environment|Students|Sustainability

Trinity researchers to develop new tools to predict future car types in Ireland

New forecasting tools to predict the next generation of private vehicle fleets in Ireland will be developed by a research project being undertaken by a team of economists and civil engineers.

29 Feb 2024

Science|Society|Sustainability

Trinity tree of the month - the Common Lime

In February we are featuring our Tilia, or Common Lime trees which can be found on the grass bank of the Parsons Building. They’re 23 and 25 metres tall, just over 2.5 metres in girth and together they store over 5,000 kg of carbon.

28 Feb 2024

Sustainability

Secret, undeclared pesticide ingredients may pose a risk to people, pollinators and the environment

Scientists are calling for greater transparency in the full ingredient list of pesticides, arguing that farmers and consumers deserve to know exactly what is in them.

21 Feb 2024

Environment|Research|Science|Sustainability

New era dawns for the retrofitted Rubrics

The beautiful red-brick building, built between 1699 and 1705, will now be home to new staff while they ‘find their feet’ in Dublin, as well as provide short-term accommodation for visiting scholars, student accommodation and a new reading room

15 Feb 2024

Community|Sustainability