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Title: Course: Community Resilience Location: Greenhouse, St Andrews Street, Dublin 2 Link out: Click here Description: Over the last few years Cultivate have put together learning resource called Community Powerdown. It has been held as a 10 part course and over 25 times in communities in every corner of Ireland, a 10 part TV show was produced using the same themes, 37 trainers have been trained up to deliver the course and from Tuesday the [...]
Submission Deadline Approaching! There’s still time to register for the Young Environmentalist Awards 2010. The project submission deadline is Friday 26 February. Register Now! ECO-UNESCO, Ireland’s environmental education and youth organisation, is inviting all young people aged between 12 and 18 years old to carry out an environmental action project with their schools or youth groups and register now for ECO-UNESCO’s Young Environmentalist Awards 2010. Since 1999, the Young Environmentalist Awards has honoured and awarded [...]
Earth Hour officially kicked off on February 1st in China with a major show of support from Chengdu, the first city in the country to commit to turning off its lights. Chengdu, among the world’s mega cites with over 13 million resident, is the hometown to the Giant Panda, an ancient species that has been living in Chengdu for more than 8 million years and is the symbol of WWF, who promote Earth Hour worldwide. [...]
Michael Ewing has been appointed as the IEN coordinator as of January 27. He will be responsible for management of all the employees of IEN. The position was created to add structure to the Secretariat, and give clear lines of responsibility for the implemention of the network’s recently completed Strategic Framework Document. “I would like to thank Bridget Farrell very much for her extraordinary skill, patience and commitment over the last 5 years as Coordinator [...]
Just Forests is to be showcased on the IUCN COUNTDOWN 2010 website as a Featured Partner for the month of February 2010. The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) who facilitate the COUNTDOWN 2010 initiative are the world’s largest conservation body with over 1000 partner organizations on all continents. 2010 has been declared by the United Nations as the International Year of Biodiversity (IYB). “Just Forests are delighted to be selected by IUCN [...]
Just Forests welcomes the EU Council’s announcement (Brussels, 28th January 2010) of an agreed draft regulation laying down obligations of operators who place timber and timber products on the European market “For many years we have campaigned on this issue of illegal timber entering Ireland”, according to Tom Roche of Just Forests. Ireland has a particular responsibility for deforestation and illegal logging. Economic development and consumption in this country is very much dependent upon natural [...]
Title: Course: Wet Wonderful and Wild Bogs and Fens Location: UCD Adult Education Centre, Dublin Date: 2010/02/23 The Irish Peatland Conservation Council’s Save the Bogs Campaign – which has championed the cause of bogland conservation in Ireland for the last 25 years will once again be offering an evening education course on bogs to adults in 2010. If you’re interested in learning more about the amazing wildlife of the bog and the preserving powers of [...]
The Irish Peatland Conservation Council’s Save the Bogs Campaign – which has championed the cause of bogland conservation in Ireland for the last 25 years will once again be offering an evening education course on bogs to adults in 2010. If you’re interested in learning more about the amazing wildlife of the bog and the preserving powers of turf, why not enroll on the Irish Peatland Conservation Council’s evening course this spring based in the [...]
IEN, the umbrella group for Ireland’s national environmental organisations, has commended Dublin City Council for introducing the country’s first city centre 30 kph zone, saying it points the way for other city and town councils to undertake similar initiatives. “Cars are part of the city but their presence should not be dominant, or deter pedestrians and cyclists from town centres. This new initiative strikes a good balance” said a spokesperson for the Irish Environmental Network. [...]
Title: ECO-UNESCO’s Introduction to Sustainable Development (FETAC Accredited Module – L5) Intensive Course Link out: Click here Start Date: 2010/03/26 End Date: 2010/03/27 ECO-UNESCO’s Introduction to Sustainable Development (FETAC Accredited Module – L5) Intensive Course ENROLL NOW for intensive course over four days in February and March: Download booking form This intensive course, taking place in two blocks (Feb: Fri 26th – Sat 27th & March: Fri 26th – Sat 27th) provides an understanding of [...]
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A number of IEN members are working together on Biodiversity issues.