Thank you @andrewlrjackson.bsky.social for responding to the @irishtimes.com Op-Ed. They should print this.

The thing about a Passive House is that the MVHR system must be maintained and serviced. The Paul unit at home has been working away for 13 years and is overdue a full check-up. Is there anyone in Ireland that does this? Please DM with suggestions 🙏🙏🙏 @phplus.bsky.social @passivehouseie.bsky.social

This October at the European Network of Living Labs conference I co-host a roundtable on the “Edges of University Living Labs” with @samrye.bsky.social of the Monash Sustainable Development Institute. If you are a university living lab researcher or/and practitioner come join the discussion.

This is happening. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/c...

What do you do with dvds that are no longer used?

Tourism can uplift small places—but growth must be sustainable with mutual benefit. TU Dublin Tourism students teamed up with Chapelizod locals in Dublin 20 to co-create digital tools that reflect community values & spark regenerative tourism. 🌍✨

🍞TU Dublin Bakery students led a campaign to reduce food and packaging waste by introducing reusable bread bags—replacing cling film & single-use plastics. www.tudublin.ie/explore/abou...

‪🏆 #TUDublinSustainability is a #GreenGownAwards 2025 finalist in 5 categories (1 of 2 HEIs finalists in the Rep of Ireland among 112). Of the shortlisted TU Dublin & University of Sunderland are tied with the most nominations at five each! @theeauc.bsky.social‬ www.tudublin.ie/explore/abou...

A fantastic achievement by colleagues in @tudublin.bsky.social @helenafitzgerald.bsky.social

On using ChatGPT for legal advice. Don’t. www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...

Just listened back to Young Fathers’ sound track for 28 Years Later. Dystopian yes, but also very good. Their arrangement of Boots (Rudyard Kipling) will take you somewhere you don’t want to go. True horror.

www.priorymarket.ie/about/ Looking forward to Priory Market opening on Main St, Tallaght on 20 June. It’s a social enterprise supporting some serious food talent right beside the TU Dublin Tallaght Campus.

This OECD report suggests the collection of spatially granular data from unconventional sources, in innovative ways can support continual improvement in place based policies - interesting insight as Local Authorities in Ireland publish Local Economic and Community Plans. www.oecd.org/en/publicati...

Wonderful afternoon spent at TU Dublin Grangegorman campus learning about ongoing work with local sustainable energy communities, district heating projects & exploring universities as living labs. A lot to reflect on in terms of the role universities can play in helping to realise a just transition.

This is an excellent resource on connecting research and society. edoc.hu-berlin.de/server/api/c...

All set up to welcome 70+ students, academics and societal partners to TU Dublin’s first Students Learning with Communities+ (SLWC+) pilot programme Roundtable event tomorrow! www.tudublin.ie/explore/abou... #TUDublinSustainability @helenafitzgerald.bsky.social

Federico Fellini’s Vatican fashion show from the film "Roma" (1972) is bizarre, scary and ridiculous all at once. youtube.com/watch?v=QMQ4...

South Dublin County Council is seeking proposals for four new public art commissions that address the urgency of climate change, and champion sustainability and / or biodiversity in the context of South Dublin County. www.sdcc.ie/en/news/call...

Four pillars of open science described in the Understanding Open Science publication by UNESCO: open scientific knowledge, open science infrastructures, open engagement of societal actors, and open dialogue with other knowledge systems.

7 factors from the EEAs Strengthening society’s engagement with nature briefing.Now to put these in place! 1. Shared, vision-driven approach 2. Informed citizenry 3. Keeping the momentum 4. Clear and efficient collaboration 5. Broad alliances 6. Evidence-based decision-making 7. Sustainable funding

Birds.

A useful contribution to thinking on living labs as learning environments👇. Connecting living labs to learning can contribute to longer term sustainability of university living labs, allowing them to break free from short term research project funding horizons. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Morto!

Breaking News! Code UFB!!! The daily CO2 number from Mauna Loa exceeded 430 ppm yesterday. This is the first reading above 430 ever recorded. CO2 levels have not been this high since the Pliocene epoch, 3 to 5 million years ago.

A very timeous release - on 13 February -of this "EuroStack – A European Alternative for Digital Sovereignty" report by IIPP. www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pub...

A new world.

Imagine spending a year studying on the islands off Ireland’s Atlantic coast Then do it! Online Open Day on 25 March at 12.00 for the TU Dublin School of Art and Design MA Art and Environment Register: tinyurl.com/579h8z38 Image: Sea Skin. Niamh Seana Meehan (2024)

This, my friends, is a huge clump of frogspawn in flooded land by the River Barrow this morning. I haven’t seen frogspawn in years.

This very interesting map from the European Patent Office shows the spatial distribution of DeepTech startups, spin-offs, universities, and investors. Would love to overlay this onto other datasets. new.epo.org/en

Blue Road a film about the life of Edna O’Brien is an extraordinary telling of an extraordinary story. Don’t miss it!

As data on climate and public health disappears, a big thank you to those who are organising to preserve it.

A Eurobarometer survey on ‘European citizens' knowledge and attitudes towards science and technology' contains some interesting results on perceptions of trust and equity. Lots here that living labs can help address but also lots that relate to the wider system. ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

So now the labels we chose (or use) can signal our political views?

Woke up this morning to windows dotted with salt. We are 60km from the coast. #storméowyn

Doing a digital spring clean today - downloading my data from platforms I no longer use, deleting social media accounts, that kind of thing. And while I can’t bear to be part of what is happening on these platforms, I wonder what new vulnerabilities a mass exodus creates?

I have just learned that one of the Scotland rugby team is called Harry Potter - born a few months before the first book was published it seems!

This is pure gold! Thank you Sam for your generosity in starting this.

Bravo Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps - what a team and what an extraordinary woman to retire in 2001 and then win gold at the World Figure Skating Championship in 2024! Love this commentary too and the slo-mo jumps at the end are breathtaking. youtu.be/_2wOFMeDmA8?...

My favorite part of the Climate Change In the Irish Mind project is that they publish Climate Opinion Maps. www.epa.ie/our-services...

60% of my household were born in Scotland. They are very happy right now :) 30-21 #1896

I love how Policy Lab developed a physical tool to help people assess a policy system using their Healthy System Indicators.

I love this map! It’s of Transport Infrastructure Ireland’s proposal for 3,500km of cycle routes prepared for the Department of Transport and published today. The cycle routes, to be in place by 2040, will connect more than 200 settlements and 2.8 million people. www.gov.ie/pdf/?file=ht...

This is a new world to me!

Like this list of guideposts presented by Arjen Wals to December’s National Forum on Education for Sustainable Development at TU Dublin. It starts with ‘create spaces’ and ends with ‘culture’, ‘hope’ and ‘care’.

Energy relations.

Interesting tool to learn about the environmental impact of digital technology. The Digital Collage adopts the workshop and network model that has been so successful for Climate Fresk. digitalcollage.org

Party over.

If anyone feels a seasonal urge to jump into a body of cold water in Ireland, I can recommend this total immersion experience...almost freezing conditions mitigated by The Hot Box Sauna. There are no sharks in the Barrow river afaik but cage welcome nonetheless. thehotboxsauna.ie/collections/...