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 […]
Environment
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Company who are registered as Daly Products in Ireland have, after a two-year battle with Save Our Skibbereen (SOS), withdrawn their application for planning to build a polymer compounding factory on the Baltimore Road in […]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 […]
One year on from opening its doors and Cork’s first minimal waste store Twig-Refill is slowly but surely helping to change the way we think and shop. Plastic, packaging and waste have become ‘dirty’ words with the climate crisis facing our planet. This shift in thinking and move away from […]
Patsy Puttnam speaks to West Cork People about her passion for the environment and trying to save it, her love of West Cork and her sadness at what her country of birth with Brexit is doing to her adopted country. In 1988 Patsy Puttnam got her first glimpse of Skibbereen. […]