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Community Supported Agriculture conference will introduce concept to Irish communities and growers

The Cloughjordan Community Farm In association with the National Organic Training Skillnet (NOTS), The Soil Association (UK), Irish Organic Farmers and Growers Association (IOFGA), URGENCI – Global Network of CSA’s, Cloughjordan Ecovillage, Cultivate, and FEASTA present “Growing Together”, an all-Ireland conference on  Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) 17th, 18th & 19th of February * Cloughjordan, Tipperary The aim of this weekend conference is to introduce the CSA concept to communities and growers on the island of Ireland. [...]

Area of Activity: Agriculture

Organisation: Cultivate, Feasta, The Village

category: Events, News

tags: Cloughjordan, community, CSA, farming

Hogan publishes EPA Review Implementation Plan

The Minister for the Environment, Community & Local Government, Phil Hogan, T.D., has published (31st January 2012) a plan for the implementation of the recommendations of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Review Group. The independent Review Group, established in February 2010 to review the scope, mandate, structure and performance of the EPA, presented its report in May 2011. This report contains 58 recommendations across a number of different themes such as governance, resources and licensing. [...]

category: Environmental News

tags: epa, Implementation Plan, Independent Review Group, Phil Hogan

Make a video of your sustainable future – and win cash prizes

Young Europeans with a fresh vision of a sustainable future are invited to participate in a video competition, with the opportunity to win cash and a trip to Copenhagen. The contest asks participants to submit a video on their vision for sustainable living in 20 years’ time. It is open to Europeans born in 1991, 1992 or 1993. Competition “Generation ’92″  has been organised by the European Environment Agency (EEA). It has been launched in [...]

category: European News

tags: Competition, sustainabilty, video

Ministers Publish Statutory Guidelines on Spatial Planning and National Roads

-Guidelines Will Help Job Creation and Economic Development- Mr. Phil Hogan, T.D., Minister of Environment, Community and Local Government, Ms. Jan O’Sullivan, T.D., Minister for Housing and Planning, together with Mr. Leo Varadkar, T.D., Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, and Mr. Alan Kelly, T.D., Minister of State with responsibility for Public and Commuter Transport today (31 January 2012) jointly published statutory planning guidelines for local authorities on Spatial Planning and National Roads.  http://www.environ.ie/en/Publications/DevelopmentandHousing/Planning/ The [...]

Area of Activity: Planning

category: News

tags: Jan O'Sullivan, Leo Varadkar, National Roads, Phil Hogan, Spatial Planning

World Wetland Day events planned nationwide

World Wetland Day events are planned for 2-5th Feb 2012. 2012 Thur Feb 2nd is the REAL Ramsar world wetland day and the days after that till Sunday 5th are added to facilitate the weekend wetland  eventers.  Ramsar people celebrate wetlands across the world. In Ireland we can celebrate that  1. We have such wealth of wetlands and 2. we have  better wetland law than before .    There is a new opportunity to  change the [...]

Area of Activity: Biodiversity

category: News

tags: events, Ramsar, World Wetlands Day

Environ 2012 will attract largest gathering of environmental researchers in Ireland

‘The 22nd Irish Environmental Researchers’ Colloquium (ENVIRON 2012) will be held in University College Dublin (UCD) from Wednesday, March 7th- Friday March 9th, 2012. The ENVIRON colloquium is the largest annual gathering of environmental researchers in Ireland with over 250 researchers attending the event. The event continues to provide a wonderful platform for PhD students and postdoctoral researchers to present their research to a wide audience. Since its establishment in 1990 one of the main [...]

category: News

tags: Environ 2012, Environmental research, UCD

Haulbowline: toxic contamination ignored

Friends of the Irish Environment (FIE) has written to the European Commission expressing concerns that Cork County Council is not addressing the full extent of the ongoing pollution from the abandoned steel works on Haulbowline Island. At a meeting on the island before Christmas with the European Commission, Cork County Council, and the Department of the Environment, FIE was told that the proposed licensce will be limited to the 9 hectares of the East Tip [...]

Area of Activity: Health, Waste

Organisation: Friends of the Irish Environment

category: News

tags: Cork, Friends of the Irish Environment, Haulbowline, toxic

Minister promises Heads of Bill in 2012 and full climate legislation later in 2013

Friends of the Earth has welcomed the publication of a detailed “Roadmap for Climate Policy and Legislation” by Minister for the Environment, Phil Hogan, but criticised the unnecessarily slow timeline. The Irish Times has a summary of reactions today. Commenting, Friends of the Earth Director, Oisin Coghlan, said “The roadmap provides welcome clarity about the Government’s commitment to passing a climate law and outlines the opportunities for public participation in its development. It sets out [...]

Area of Activity: Climate Change

category: News

tags: climate change, Friends of the Earth, Phil Hogan, Roadmap

Hop To It – Join the 2012 Irish Frog Watch

To mark World Wetlands Day on the 2nd February the Irish Peatland Conservation Council are launching their annual ‘Hop To It Frog Survey’. The survey of the Common Frog (Rana temporaria) is looking for information on their distribution and habitat preferences in every county in Ireland. Members of the public are asked to send in sightings of frog spawn, tadpoles, froglets and adult frogs. One of the best places to begin your frog watch is [...]

Area of Activity: Biodiversity

Organisation: Irish Peatland Conservation Council

category: News

tags: Frogs, IPCC, Survey, World Wetlands Day

New indicators show latest data on air pollution, ozone depletion and acid rain

Updated air pollution indicators have been published by the European Environment Agency (EEA). They include indicators presenting past emission trends, contributions of different sectors and analysis of reasons for past changes. The indicators cover a range of substances affecting the ozone layer, acid rain and air quality. Four are from the EEA’s Core Set of Indicators (CSI): CSI001 assessment: Emissions of acidifying substances CSI002 assessment: Emissions of ozone precursors CSI003 assessment: Emissions of primary particulate [...]

category: European News

tags: acid rain, air pollution, EEA, indicators, ozone depletion

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