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Cultivate programmes include:

Green Building - We offer workshops and events, FETAC accredited courses, major conferences such as Better Building, training events and regular seminars with CPD accreditation from the RIAI;

Community Resilience - Based in Cloughjordan, this includes training courses and a comprehensive toolkit of resources;

Permaculture - Based in Cloughjordan at the Ecovillage, our Permaculture offerings include: Weekend FETAC L5 Course ; Full Permaculture Design Certificate Course ; The Permaculture Blog ; Camps (coming soon) ; Dublin 1-day taster sessions (coming soon)

The Convergence Festival, run 16 times by Cultivate since 2000, has functioned as a vehicle for collaboration with a huge variety of groups and individuals. Established in the year 2000, Convergence is Ireland’s longest running sustainable living festival. For more than a decade this unique programme of events has celebrated community resilience and social inclusion while championing the changes needed to create a sustainable economy, society and built environment.

Cultivate in Cloughjordan

Cultivate's Cloughjordan branch reaches out to rural communities and runs courses and events working closely with The Ecovillage.

Cultivate in Dublin

Cultivate's wide range of experience has been accumulated through running our former centres in Temple Bar and nearby at The Greenhouse. Cultivate has acted as a meeting place and incubator for a wide variety of sustainability organisations since 2003, while our drop-in facility has provided comprehensive information on sustainability issues to the general public. Cultivate has formed a key role in furthering the profile of sustainability in Ireland and has enjoyed support from all sectors, offering a space for businesses, NGOs, CSOs, Government and grassroots organisations to share perspectives and to work together.

More about Cultivate

Established in 2000, Cultivate has played a key role in furthering the profile of sustainability in Ireland over the past decade through the research, development, sourcing and publishing of both online and printed informational resources, education programmes and networking events. With offices in Dublin and Cloughjordan, offering both urban and rural reach, the organisation has built an unrivalled nationwide network of partners working in the Green Economy. This network was strengthened and expanded most recently through the 2010-2011 Green Works programme which brought together industry experts, entrepreneurs and educators from across the country to provide Green Economy training to more than 1800 jobseekers.

The organisation also has significant experience in organising networking events through its annual Convergence Festival and Global Green @ Electric Picnic. Other important events in our work programme include a 2-day green business showcase entitled Working the Green Economy, a one-day Green Building Forum and one-day conference Rethinking the City for design professionals. In addition, Cultivate operates a co-working space for green entrepreneurs in its Dublin centre, as well as hosting Éasca, Ireland's Ecological and Sustainable Construction Association, and PHAI, the Passive House Association Ireland.

Cultivate has produced many information packages over the years from the original printed Source Book, a guide and directory of green businesses and sustainability organisations operating in Ireland, to the Powerdown Show, a 10 part TV show exploring community responses to global energy and climate problems which has been broadcast in Ireland and internationally. A recent project has been to research and write a Green Strategy to assist Offaly Local Development Company in launching local enterprise and employment initiatives. Information on sustainability and the green economy has been disseminated on an ongoing basis through Cultivate’s family of websites: http://www.cultivate.ie, http://www.resilience.cultivate.ie, http://www.permaculture.cultivate.ie, http://www.cultivate.ie/gw

Cultivate maintains close links with

...many NGOs and sustainability organisations including The Village, ECO-UNESCO, Feasta and other members of the IEN network. We are a founding member of Stop Climate Chaos, The Regional Centre of Expertise on Sustainable Development and a focal point for Ireland's Transition Town Network. Cultivate also host Éasca, Ireland's ecological and sustainable construction association.
Cultivate's main target groups are

...the general public and those seeking to deepen their understanding of sustainability and community resilience. We reach a large number of people through our festivals, courses and events, Convergence Festival and our outreach and consultancy work with other festivals such as the Electric Picnic.