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Feast of contemporary folk music served up on Camus Farm

WCP Staff June, 2022

An open air performance area is the latest exciting development on Camus Farm – a 30-acre organic holding in Ardfield, Clonakilty – which this summer will host two outdoor concerts or ‘Fair Days’ of contemporary folk music. On June 5, Camus will welcome Lorkin O’Reilly; I Have A Tribe; O […]

Pinking up a favourite tipple

Karen Austin June, 2022

Berlin in early summer is full of Horse Chestnut trees in blossom. Some of the trees are immense – as tall as five storey buildings; and when the wind blows the pink blossoms come down like confetti, falling everywhere, sometimes landing into the glasses of the people drinking on the […]

Ireland’s only legally protected butterfly

WCP Staff June, 2022

Branch Committee Member Damaris Lysaght writes about the fascinating and endangered Marsh Fritillary butterfly. For most of the year the Marsh Fritillary butterfly exists as a caterpillar. It is only on the wing from the last week or two of May until the around the end of June; a case […]

Environment

Greening the bathroom

Lauren Guillery June, 2022

One of the first things I did when I started my journey to a more sustainable lifestyle was to look at the consumption of plastic items in my daily life. Initially invented to ‘protect the natural world from the destructive forces of human need’; the revolutionary material that we now […]

Columnists

Life in the soil

Jean Perry June, 2022

Over the last winter I have been working with a group of like-minded people, doing an online course in Sustainable Community Development. It has been a very interesting experience and I have learnt a lot. The added benefit has been getting to know other members of my community and working […]

Does Cork County Planning Department undermine climate action?

Fiona Hayes June, 2022

Our current 1.1 degree Celsius warmer world is already affecting natural and human systems in Europe and across the world; yet now climate scientists are predicting that we will hit 1.5 degrees Celsius, even if that high level is not sustained, by 2026. The 1.5 degree Celsius figure is the […]

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