NTU Singapore Sustainability

Earthopia Fest, a youth sustainability festival will be back this year from 29-31 May 2026! Earthopia Fest is Singapore’s premier ground-up, youth-led festival dedicated to forging a , with a mission to transform apathy into action.

The festival aims to make sustainability relevant, accessible and actionable in daily life, by connecting people, ideas and local initiatives. The 2026 edition centres on behavioural psychology. To mainstream sustainability, the organisers have deconstructed complex lifestyles into a progressive three-step journey: Awareness, Intent and Action.

Earthopia Fest | Sustainability festival in Singapore Earthopia Fest is a sustainability festival in Singapore featuring eco workshops, green markets, and creative experiences for youths. Join us from 29–31 May.

Over the past year, Nanyang Business School celebrated 30 years of growth, impact and community. To wrap up the celebrations, NBS warmly invites you to join the NBS30 Finale (29–30 May 2026) — a curated series of conversations at the intersection of business, technology, and society.

Across two days, leading scholars from NTU, MIT, the University of Chicago, New York University, and more, together with industry leaders, will explore the future of AI, FinTech and Sustainability. All lectures and masterclasses are complimentary.

Highlights include the launch of NTU’s Global Institute of Finance, Technology and Society, a keynote by Nobel Laureate Prof Thomas Sargent, and the NBS30 Gala Dinner at Marina Bay Sands.

All proceeds from the Gala Dinner support the NBS30 Fund to empower students to create social impact and grow as empathetic leaders.

View programme and register now: https://www.ntu.edu.sg/business/nbs30/nbs30-finale

Lecture & Workshop: Soil as Infrastructure with Edible Garden City

Food security has been a perennial concern in Singapore, which sees the nation-state importing more than 90% of its food and allocating only 1% of its land to agriculture. These challenges are intensified by disruptions to global supply chains due to climate-induced extreme weather.

In response, Singapore Food Agency has implemented strategies to address national food security concerns, including the promotion of local urban agriculture. Edible Garden City, an urban farming social enterprise, has been a lead to expanding the country's urban agricultural landscape. Having established over 280 edible gardens, EGC is committed to regenerative agriculture and soil-based food systems as foundational to cultivating food sovereignty and fostering community agrarian literacy.

Organized by the NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore, join in on Saturday, 2 May at Edible Garden City’s site in Queenstown to learn about the importance of local soil-based food systems with a lecture by EGC Co-Founder Bjorn Low, followed by a hands-on soil composting workshop with members of the EGC Queenstown community.

🔗 Participant Fee: $21.80 (incl. GST)
⏰ Sat, 2 May | 10:00am – 11:30am
📍 Edible Garden City, 60 Jalan Penjara, S149375

The Climate Transformation: Sustainable Societies Series is supported by the MOE AcRF Tier 3 Grant [MOE-MOET32022-0006] for the Climate Transformation Programme.
Registration Link: https://ntumarketplace.ntu.edu.sg/CCA003

Lecture: Decarbonising Urban Futures

Decarbonisation has emerged as a central organising principle of contemporary climate governance. It refers both to the technical reduction of carbon emissions, and the broader socio-economic transformation that aligns production, consumption, and infrastructure with climate mitigation imperatives.

Globally, buildings account for ~37% of global energy-related carbon emissions. In Singapore, the built environment contributes ~20% of national emissions—including both ‘embodied carbon’ from material production and transportation, and operational carbon generated throughout a building's use.

As urbanisation continues, emissions are anticipated to rise substantially, which will intensify the challenge of achieving net-zero emissions within the built environment.

Beginning with Associate Professor Matthew Dearth, he will highlight solutions to decarbonise the building sector and current obstacles that prevent firms from adopting them. Alakesh Dutta presents research investigating the potential for high-rise building typologies to evolve into low-carbon models in the future. Often associated with higher emissions today, the high-rise typology remains indispensable in high-density cities such as Singapore. This lecture will be moderated by Professor Thomas Schroepfer.

🔗 Free registration – link in bio
⏰ Tue, 31 March | 6:30–8:30pm
📍 The Hall, NTU CCA Singapore
Blk 6 Lock Rd, #01-09 Gillman Barracks, S108934
🖼️ PARKROYAL Collection Pickering, Singapore, aerial view. Image by Eurthe. Courtesy of WOHA Architects, Singapore.

The Climate Transformation: Sustainable Societies Series is supported by the MOE AcRF Tier 3 Grant [MOE-MOET32022-0006] for the Climate Transformation Programme.

Eventbrite Link: https://www.eventbrite.sg/e/lecture-decarbonising-urban-futures-tickets-1984352287108?aff=SocialMedia

Mark Earth Day by joining the Use Your Lunchbox 2026 campaign. The NTU Sustainability Office will distribute 1,000 complimentary lunchboxes from 7 April 2026 to the Community. Register in advance, collect your lunchbox between 7–9 April, and start using it for takeaway meals across campus.

Participants will also stand a chance to win from a S$1,000 prize pool. Simply:
• Use your lunchbox 4 times for campus takeaway
• Snap a photo of your meal
• Post it on Instagram or through the tracking form between 7 April and 7 May 2026

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