OUR EVENTS / ACTIVITIES / MEETINGS
We regularly have stalls at local nature, climate-change and sustainability events, and give talks at a range of campaigning/academic/community platforms. A brief outline of past and upcoming events, and key meetings in 2024 is given below. Further details of events in previous years are provided on our events and other blog pages, a selection of which are profiled below. Do come by and chat with us if you're around, and pick up some of our information sheets on how to go pesticide free in your school, community, business or home. And please get in touch if you'd like us to speak at, or hold an information stall at an event you're organising.
Previous events Nov 2023-Dec 2024
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Tues 21 Nov 2023. Speaker, Friends of Paradise Nature Reserve, 'How to make Cambridge pesticide-free'. Newnham Croft Social Club, 7.30 pm.
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Mon 8 Jan 2024. Organiser. Pesticide-Free Cambridge Colleges / Cambridge Climate Society meeting, online. 7.30-8.30 pm.
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Tues 9 Jan 2024. Participant. Cambridge City Council Herbicide-Reduction Working Group meeting.
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2 Feb 2024, Authors of Cambridge Independent Opinion Piece on Cambridge County Council's decision to reverse its herbicide-free policy.
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11 March 2024. Organiser. Pesticide-Free Cambridge Colleges / Cambridge Climate Society meeting, online.
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14 March 2024. Participant. Cambridge City Council Herbicide-Reduction Working Group meeting.
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Thurs 21 March 2024, Public Questions, Cambridge City Council, Environmental and Community Scrutiny Committee Meeting. News coverage here.
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Sun 24 March, Stallholder (with On the Verge Cambridge, and Cambridge Climate Society), Imaginarium Takeover of Kings College, Cambridge Festival. News coverage here.
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Mon 25 March, Organiser. Pesticide-Free Cambridge, Cambridge University Hospitals sustainability group meeting.
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Sun 14 April 2024, Organiser (with On the Verge Cambridge), Beche Road Plant Safari.
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Sat 13 April, 2024, Stallholder. Akeman Community Centre event.
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Thurs, 25 April, 2024. Organiser. Pesticide-Free Cambridge Colleges / Cambridge Climate Society, Student Rep Training Workshop, 7.30-8.30 pm.
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Fri 21 June 2024. Stallholder (with On the Verge Cambridge). Friends of the Cam, Declaration of the Rights of the River Cam.
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Tues 25 June 2024. Organiser. Pesticide-Free Cambridge Colleges, First Roundtable meeting with Head Gardeners and Estates/Facilities Leads. Online, 2-3 pm.
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Thurs 27 June 2024. Public Questions, Cambridge City Council, Environmental and Community Scrutiny Committee Meeting.
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Sat 29 June 2024. Stallholder (with On the Verge Cambridge), Coton Orchard Bioblitz, Cambridge Festival of Nature.
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Sat 21 Sept 2024. Stallholder (with On the Verge Cambridge). Duxford Festival of Nature.
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Thurs 10 Oct 2024. Public Questions. Cambridge City Council Full Council meeting.
Upcoming events in 2024
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Saturday 19 October. Panelist, Cambridge Zero Making Connections Workshops, Cambridge Library, Grand Arcade. 2-4 pm.
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Wed 6 November. Organiser. Pesticide-Free Cambridge Colleges, Second Roundtable meeting with Head Gardeners and Estates/Facilities Leads. Online, 2-3 pm.
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Fri 15 November. Speaker and Panelist, Cambridge Climate Society Local Conservation Efforts Panel, Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 6.00-7.30 pm.
"Notions that humans are self-contained and impervious to context have now been largely swept away, not least because denial of a socioecological perspective hugely undermined attempts to address the most serious contemporary health challenges. Also instrumental in challenging the notion of the self-contained body has been an environmentalist movement with a particular interest in pesticide and other chemical contamination of the biosphere. The toxic effects of chemical contamination reinforce the reality of a body that is permeable and invariably in a state of intimate exchange with its surroundings."