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Jenny Webb will be leading a gunpowder walk in  Ballincollig Regional Park on Sunday 29^th August starting at 1.45pm from the GAA (eastern) end of the park.

All Welcome.

Check out the upcoming events  etc in the festival brochure:http://www.cultivate.ie/convergence/C15_Brochure.pdf

Cork City now has a transition group - join up here:http://transitiontownsireland.ning.com/group/corkcityThis site is for sharing among Transition Towns initiatives in Ireland & Northern Ireland. This network belongs to a worldwide initiative building community resilience to face the effects of climate change, peak oil and economic breakdown. To find out more go towww.transitionculture.org and www.transitiontowns.org

Rx3 has been created as the new name for the Market Development Programme. Rx3 “rethink recycle remake” works with a range of partners and stakeholders to create markets for recycled materials.

Rx3 are running a Sustainable Innovation Forum on 27th April. This will highlight thinking around sustainability and design, showcase recycled products and ideas that unite social, economic and environmental values.  It will also highlight opportunities and provide information and support to stakeholders and people who have an interest in the waste marketplace. As part of the forum Rx3 are hosting two competitions.

60 Green Minutes
Participants need to demonstrate how waste can be recycled to make new products. The core task is to demonstrate a business idea that takes something disposable and transforms it into something of greater use and value.

Turning Trash into Cash
Student competition for artwork, products and business ideas working with waste materials.

To find out more see http://www.rx3.ie.

Please feel free to forward this onto interested contacts. 

Hi folks, sorry about delays in posting new sites onto the map, recurring technical issues we’re trying to resolve. Please keep submitting site suggestions however, thanks, CGM

And if there are any techies out there with spare time on their hands we would greatly appreciate it!

Has your company taken up the challenge of reducing energy use?

Why not enter the it@cork Leaders Awards Green Technology category?

 The third annual it@cork Leaders Awards – Recognising Leaders in Technology Innovation, will take place on October 22. This year we have a new category - the Green Technology Award. We’d like to recognise companies which have successfully used technology to bring about reductions in their energy use or to create greater efficiencies in energy use within their company. The full list of criteria can be seen here. Companies big or small, with or without their own IT departments can enter, as long as they’ve been consciously using technology to reduce energy usage. Simple things like installing lighting sensors or default double-sided printing can make a big difference to a company’s overall energy footprint.Help us to reward companies which have taken up the challenge of going green - nominate the company you think has made a change before September 25. Submit a nomination here. Find more information on the criteria for the awards and the judging process on http://www.itcork.ie/index.cfm/page/2009leadersawards1  Tickets to the awards ceremony are €80 per person and can be purchased online. Tables of ten are also available. To make a group booking please email alison@itcork.ie           

This just in from Jenny Webb: We’re doing two gunpowder mills walks for heritage week this year. Sunday 23^rd and Sunday 30^th. Meet at the GAA end of the regional park outside the old visitors centre at 1.45pm. Walk should take 2 hours. Wear strong footwear. Enjoy a walk through the woods and learn how gunpowder was made in the 19^th century with reference to the surviving buildings.

Dee’s Veggie  Burgers (also organic, wheat, gluten and dairy free), made in Cork, are  now available in; O’ Flynns Butchers, English Market; Quay Co-Op,Sullivan’s Quay; O’ Keeffe’s Grocers, St. Lukes; Jack McCarthy’s Butchers Kanturk and Martin Carey Butcher, Bandon, and Eddie Rockets!

See  http://www.vegeque.com for details

The second Cork Cycling Arts Festival – Cork’s multidisciplinary celebration of cycling, arts, fun and creativity – gets into gear from Monday 2o

th to Sunday 26th July 2009 with a fantastic range of free events celebrating bicycle culture in the vibrant streets of Cork city.

The Festival is sponsored by Cork City Council and the Smarter Travel section of the Department of Transport along with a number of local business sponsors including The Edge Sports Shop, Giant Bicycles, Kellys Bicycles, Trek bicycles, trailriders.ie, Rothar Cycle Tours and dealfeedr.ie. 

See www.corkcyclingcampaign.com part of www.cyclist.ie for details.

Cork Palestine Action Group invites you to a frenzy of  post punk, rock, beat poetry for 21st century Cork and old skool punk rock, reggae and ska unleashed by Dirty Fix, Circus Cat, Don for Chickens plus special guests rumoured to be Latino!

All funds raised will be donated directly to provide humanitarian aid to Gaza through Caoimhe Butterly (Cork Human Rights Activist in Gaza), Free Gaza Movement (www.freegaza.org) and Galway Palestine Children’s Charity.

Gig for Gaza – Friday 17th April 2009 – Club ISO Bar @ The Mardyke –
Doors open: 9pm – Admission €10 – Tickets available from Plugd Record
Store and on the Door