CCS Newsletter 6/5
TL;DR:
Check out the upcoming Panel on Climate Anxiety
Exams are approaching for many (or ending for some) and the amount of events we have are also winding down! Check out some of the other opportunities on offer to have a break from academic stress in Easter term.
💜 from Haley and the rest of the CCS Committee
📅 Upcoming Events
May 22nd, 4:30-6:30pm: Climate Anxiety Panel Click here to sign-up!
Join us for a thought-provoking panel discussion on Climate Anxiety and emotional responses to the climate crisis featuring renowned experts in psychology, activism, and sustainability. This two-hour session at Bradfield Room, Darwin College, will explore the intersection of climate change and emotional wellbeing.
🍃Pesticides Free Campaign
Synthetic pesticides are routinely used in and around the built environment, and in green spaces to treat unwanted vegetation and insects. HOWEVER, pesticides are damaging to the environment; they are also a public health and disability rights issue. Together with other harmful practices such as over-mowing, they are a major cause of biodiversity loss, and by killing off invertebrates they also drive other animals such as hedgehogs and birds towards extinction.
Pesticide-Free Cambridge is now joining forces with Cambridge Climate Society to tackle ongoing pesticide-use in Cambridge’s colleges.
This is a relatively low commitment but highly powerful way you can help people and nature in your college!
Read more about the campaign at https://www.pesticidefreecambridge.org/colleges-campaign
💚 More Opportunities
Attention soon-to-be alumni!
Cambridge Alumni for Sustainability serves to connect Alumni of the University of Cambridge who share a common interest in sustainability and working towards net zero. This group aims to facilitate discussion and networking as well as host online and in-person events. For more information and to sign up to the newsletter check out their website and LinkedIn Group.
Climate Activism Interview Request
Maya is looking for climate activists to interview for her MPhil dissertation, which aims to take an intersectional/sociological view of climate activism in the UK to explore how climate mobilisations navigate diversity and difference, as well as the role that identity plays in informing the individual/collective strategies of climate mobilisations. Anyone interested can contact Maya at mah232@cam.ac.uk.