2. Future Orchard Future Orchard accepts apples from people around Cork City and sends them for juicing along with their own apples that are grown in Glanmire. They used their waste prevention grant to install a storage unit to accept back glass juice bottles which are then reused by the apple juicing company based in Clonmel, Co. Tipperary. This is an exemplar circular economy initiative.
3. St Johns Central College – Sustainable Fashion St John’s College Fashion Design students upcycled 14 outfits (including face masks) and created a video montage of their work explaining the process from design ideas, drawings and end product.
4. St Stephen’s Sustainable Food Hub
St Stephen’ s Sustainable Food Hub used their waste prevention grant to produce raised beds using up cycled materials (e.g. scaffolding boards) in their urban garden off Tower Street.
Community Content Cork Learning City
Virtual Launch of the ‘Atlantic Currents’ publication took place on October 2 nd a joint initiative between Cork Learning City and the Learning City of Lowell, Massachusetts. Creating connections between Cork and Lowell, two communities equally committed to the values and goals of UNESCO’s Ci ties of Learning programme. ‘Atlantic Currents’ is published by Loom Press of Lowell and the anthology includes the histories of Lowell and Cork, together with work by established and emerging poets, short story writers and novelists, journalists, prose writers, and personal responses to life in both cities. Readings from Cork writers were recorded in Triskel Christchurch and broadcast in a joint virtual launch event.
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