Connect The Dots

On #EarthDay 🌍🌏🌎 we commit to protect natural ecosystems & hence our own health. @GogreenRoutes applies #naturebasedsolutions & nature connectedness to improve health & wellbeing of urban citizens. 🌍 gogreenroutes.eu #PlanetvsPlastics #EarthDay @EarthDay

Do you live or work in Ringsend? Join us next Thursday, January 18th at the Fair Play Café to find out about the draft #DecarbonisingZone plan for the area, share your feedback and have your questions answered!

Are you an urban pracitioner looking for some 🙌hands-on guidance on sustainable finance, business models and nature-based entrepreneurship? 💹 Then look no further than our new guidebook 🌳📰gogreenroutes.eu/news?c=search&… @horizonnua @tcddublin @GreenLahti2021

The full report is definitely worth a read for anyone interested in service design/design thinking, or learn about the core principles in this image! #page=null" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">gov.ie/pdf/?file=http…

Last week, @Paschald and @IRLDeptPER launched the 'Action Plan for Designing Better Public Services'. This important document sets out a roadmap for building a strong design culture and practice into the Irish Public Sector

What are Focus Groups and why are they used? Join us as we look at the second in our series of creative consultation tools! Focus groups are perfect for engaging with a smaller group of people. Swipe for some tips on organising one yourself 👉 #creativeconsultation #focusgroups

Relevant for anyone interested in improving their hosting skills – in a formally facilitated workshop or even a gathering of friends! Have you read this book too? Let us know what you thought of it in the comments!

Our team often chat about what we’re reading & this week’s pick from Nicola is ‘The Art of Gathering’ by Priya Parker, it sets out ‘a human-centred approach to gathering that can help us create meaningful, memorable moments’.

The Community Climate Action toolkit we co-created with @common_k_ is being put to the test today! A group of community leaders are carrying out a skill sharing session down in West Clare, using one of the tools in the prototype toolkit we developed over the summer

The New European Bauhaus Consultations are now open! For anyone who works in these areas it's important to have your say on these policies - follow the link to the EUSurvey platform to access the series of consultations. ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runne…

A great discussion at the @RediscoveryCtr in #Ballymun today with the local #decarbonising zone team! We looked at the #energy and #emissions in Ballymun, some potential objectives and actions to reduce emissions and take #climateaction within the community! 🌍💪

Games are a great workshop activity to help people quickly get to grips with unfamiliar concepts. We love this Climate Policy Game from @CityLab that highlights the complexity of policy-making to players (in a super fun way!) bloomberg.com/features/2021-…

Thanks again to @RTPIIreland for inviting us to speak at this year's Young Planners Conference last Friday! We enjoyed sharing some of our insights on meaningful public engagement in the planning process, and hearing from co-panellists at @PlanQUB, @CommunityPlaces and the NTA.

This week in #Ringsend with @CodemaDublin, brainstorming how the community can reduce carbon emissions. Community engagement over the next few months will result in a plan to eradicate emissions in Ringsend by 2050! #climateaction #engagement

And that's a wrap on #ggrtallinn! A great few days of catching up with project partners and planning for the remainder of @GoGreenRoutes (we even managed to squeeze in a bit of sight seeing in beautiful Tallinn!)

@RTPIIreland Thanks again to @RTPIIreland for inviting us to speak at this year's Young Planners Conference! We enjoyed sharing some of our insights on meaningful public engagement in the planning process, and hearing from co-panellists at @PlanQUB, @CommunityPlaces and the NTA.

Yesterday at #ggrtallinn. A morning of workshops and discussions, then a wonderful guided tour and visit of Tallinn's Green spaces and a visit to a local brewery organised by @tallinnofficial!

Break time, with a guided meditation in the park from Áine 🧘‍♀️ #ggrtallinn

Tere (Hello) from Tallinn! Áine and Nicola are in Estonia this week for the @GoGreenRoutes Consortium Meeting. They'll be helping to manage the jam-packed agenda of workshops, presentations and everything else! #ggrtallinn

We're looking forward to speaking at the @RTPIIreland Young Planners Conference next week, sharing some of our knowledge on public participation in the planning system! Anyone can register to attend at eventbrite.com/e/rtpi-ireland…