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Please note that registration alone does not guarantee seats for our talks, tours or workshops. However those who have pre-registered will be given the first opportunity to book places on anything with limited spaces.
This is event is organised with the Grantham Institute and Climate-KIC, and forms part of the Government’s Green GB Week.
Living office furniture, zero-carbon beer and turbines to hoover up ocean plastic.
To mark the Government’s first ever Green GB week Imperial will host a showcase of how innovation and new ideas could help address the major environmental issues we face on both global and local scales.
With opportunities to build your own green wall paper designs, help shape future innovations with our ideas workshop, and a frank discussion on how we tackle London’s air pollution, come look at a vision for a future, more sustainable world
15 great green things to see and do at Imperial Lates: Greenovate
- Re-imagine the working office with Andriana Nassou’s Symbiont – living furniture that reduces the CO2 levels and improves air quality using microalgae.
- Rub and trace your own autumnal artwork inspired by the microscopic structure of organic waste matter, while learning about research into the potential of green refining methods to turn waste into alternative fuels or useful biomaterials.
- Imperial green innovators take to the stage to discuss a typical day averting environmental disaster, and why they do what they do. Talks start at 18:30 (An ocean plastic warrior), 19:15 (A living furniture designer), 20:00 (A carbon neutral brewer)
- Quench your thirst for a more sustainable vision of the future with free samples of a specially created eco-friendly beer
- Make it rain on thirsty pavement that could avoid the temporary lakes and overflowing drains that plague urban areas with Ana Mijic and collaborators from Thames Water
- Discover a floating sunlight technology from Yuanjing Dong to enhance coral growth and save our under attack reefs
- Debate new approaches to tackling London’s air pollution crisis through innovation and evidence-based policy making with Imperial experts, student innovators, legal campaigners and our local MP. The discussion will take place 18:30 – 19:30 (Those who pre-booked will be given first priority)
- Keep cool with a thermally-powered solar refrigerator that is being field tested in rural India
- Check out a low cost weather station to help coffee growers and banana farmers adapt to the realities of climate change
- Search for the Holy Grail of CO2 storage before visiting our futuristic Carbon Capture Plant. Tours leave at 6:30, 7:15, 8:00. Tickets are allocated on a first come first serve basis from the Carbon capture stand in the main Lates area
- Build your own biodegradable solar bio-battery & come away with an eco-warrior badge of honour with the inventors of solar panel wallpaper
- Enter an immersive ocean plastics zone created by artist Vinita Khanna showcasing the global invasion of plastics on the tiniest living creatures in the oceans.
- Discover ocean-cleaning turbines and ship modifications inspired by hungry fish to suck up ocean plastic waste by the tonne.
- Learn about different types of plastics and a new infra-red scanning technology to combat global problems with recycling.
- Join student entrepreneurs presenting bacterially-grown sheets that remove toxic micro-pollutants from wastewater
About Imperial Lates
Imperial Lates celebrate the latest in science and engineering at Imperial College London – bringing the public together with world leading minds in their respective fields, who not only love what they do, but also love sharing their work with new audiences.
A perfect evening’s entertainment for adults of all ages and backgrounds. Anyone with a curious mind is welcome to get hands on with our research, brought to life through live demonstrations, creative workshops, interactive experiments and inspiring talks. Pick the brains of the people behind the ideas, innovations and breakthroughs to discover how their work could impact our society and change our futures.
Throw in a bar and some of the world’s most extraordinary and pioneering scientists and engineers and you have the recipe for a free, fun and engaging night out in the heart of London.
Sign up to explore the future though the science of today!!
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Green GB Week
Launching on 15 October 2018, Green GB Week will showcase the benefits clean growth will bring to all parts of society – from new jobs to cleaner air. We want local communities to embrace this challenge and grow momentum from the ground up.
A diverse range of businesses, civil society groups and government will join forces to tell the story of clean growth and how acting to tackle climate change is a shared endeavour, delivering a week of activity that involves all parts of the country. The week will highlight both the urgent need to tackle climate change and our rapid progress towards building a cleaner economy.
This year the week will focus on celebrating UK leadership on climate change, marking the 10-year anniversary of the Climate Change Act, while highlighting the business opportunity from clean growth and providing a platform for the latest research on the impacts of climate change.
There will be events to showcase the leading role of the UK’s academic community and businesses in new low carbon technologies, innovative financial products and business models that will help us tackle climate change while generating economic growth. It will also provide a focal point to promote British clean businesses to international investors.