The Gathering
Find out moreThe Gathering is a collaboration of earth and water protectors, community groups, activists and individuals who come from all over the Island of Ireland to share their campaigns and inspire and support each other.
We organise a big get-together every year. In May 2025 we held the Gathering event in Moville Co Donegal. Short video below:
Monthly Subgroup Meetings
In this time of planetary crisis, solution-based discussions on a variety of topics happen monthly.
Topics include:
| Topic | When | Who | Meeting Link |
| Rights of Nature – Derry | 2nd Tuesday 6:30pm | Anjuli Grantham | Join on zoom Meeting ID: 865 1836 6301 Passcode: 070127 |
| Rights of Nature – Ireland | 2nd Tuesday 7:30pm | Mary McGuiggan, James Orr, Lynda Sullivan | Join on Zoom Meeting ID: 853 5168 9221 Passcode: 790592 |
| Waste Crime | 2nd Thursday 9:00am | Doris Noë | Join on Zoom Meeting ID: 851 2048 0951 Passcode: 435214 |
| Aarhus Convention | 3rd Tuesday 7:30pm | Juneseo Hwang & Lynn Finnegan | Join on Zoom |
| Health | 3rd Thursday 7:30pm | Christina Benson | Join on Zoom Meeting ID: 356 425 1710 Passcode: tGX67c |
| Planning | 3rd Thursday 7:30pm | George McLaughlin & Dean Blackwood | Join on Zoom Meeting ID: 819 3532 6850 Passcode: 724117 |
| Creativity and Language | 4th Friday 12:00 | Maura Johnston | Join on Zoom Meeting ID: 875 9492 4667 Passcode: 985056 |
Click on “Join the meeting” in the table or use the ID and Passcode to login. For Microsoft Teams help go here
All topics as subject to movement and change as needed. If you wish to join in one of these or are interested to explore another subject, please get in touch with the organiser above or email: info@zerowastenw.org
Other topics that we would like to discuss include: Cross Border and Health Issues, Clean Air and Water, Brexit and Environmental Law, Moral Witnessing?
2024 Gathering
In June 2024 this was at the Seamus Heaney Homeplace in Bellaghy.
We live in an Industrial Growth Society and as a result, we the citizens are co-creating in an effort to mitigate the current destruction and to abort future threats in their planning stages, while focusing on building the new structures that will transition us into a Life Sustaining Society.
