Holly Hughes, the Communications Officer for Vita – an Irish NGO uniting social justice in Africa with climate action in Ireland – talks us through carbon offsetting and how the actions we take on a local level must have a global impact I hail from Clonakilty. It is a small town […]
Environment
Eight years ago Fiona Hayes was privileged to be part of a team that came together to test a proposed environmental law that could be introduced at International level. Earth lawyer, Polly Higgins was proposing the ‘Law of Ecocide’ at the UN. Polly’s proposal was that Ecocide become the fifth […]
Susan O’Flaherty works as Operations Manager at XD Sustainable Energy Consulting, alongside her husband, Xavier Dubuisson. XD Consulting is an integrated sustainability consultancy providing multi-disciplinary advice and support in the area of renewable energy and energy efficiency. Susan and her family moved to Clonakilty from Brussels in 2001. Prior to […]
Much has been written over the past number of weeks in relation to the possibility of Ireland facing one of the coldest winters on record, with crippling blizzards predicted to inflict an icy misery across the country for much of an extended winter season. Such apocalyptic predictions it must be […]
by Fiona Hayes Many of you will have heard by now that American owned RTP Company who are registered as Daly Products in Ireland have, after a two-year battle with Save Our Skibbereen (SOS), withdrawn their application for planning to build a polymer compounding factory on the Baltimore Road in […]
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released their latest major report on September 25. Evidence from scientists all over the world shows how climate change is affecting the ocean and the frozen parts of the earth. Urgent, ambitious and co-ordinated actions are called for to address these unprecedented and […]