Clare FM – Weekly Episode 23 – Regenerative Farming

Wild Irish Farm is a family-run business based in West Clare where caring for the land and using methods that promote healthy soil, biodiversity, and increased carbon storage are the main priorities. Farmer John O’Loughlin first explained to Pat Flynn what regenerative farming is.  

C103 – Weekly Tips 26 – Cork Clothes Swop

Did you know?  As well as being a time of joy, Christmas is undoubtedly a period of excessive consumerism and waste. In fact, environmentalists have described the holiday season as ‘the world’s greatest annual environmental disaster.’ With fashion accounting for about 10% of global greenhouse gas emissions, one way we can try to reduce our […]

C103 – Weekly Tips 25 – Enterprise Ireland Sustainability

This week C103FM spoke with Alexa Twoomey, Head of Sustainability at EI Did you know?  This week we hear of a new initiative by Enterprise Ireland to help companies on their sustainability journey. Alexa Toomey, Head of Sustainability at EI, tells us what a sustainability plan looks like for a small business and how EI […]

C103 – Weekly Tips 24 – Green Friday

Did you know?    New research this month revealed that 4 in 10 online shoppers intend to complete their Christmas gifts and non-food shopping over the coming weekend.   Consumers in Ireland will spend about €5-billion-euro this Christmas, so keeping a decent proportion of this huge spend within the local economy will create wealth here, […]

C103 – Weekly Tips 23 – Climate Change from a Cork perspective – DRAFT

This week C103FM spoke with Claire Costelloe, Shirley Gallagher and Sandra Burns Did you know?  Projected increases in the frequency of extreme precipitation events will result in increased surface water and riverine flood risk for Cork City .    Coastal flooding poses a serious threat for Ireland. This is due to the fact that Ireland’s […]

Radio Nova – Weekly Tips 26 – A Sustainable Christmas

  Over Christmas, we typically eat lots of food and spend lots of money. The remnants of millions of turkeys, tonnes of plastic packaging and miles of wrapping paper have to go somewhere.    Did you know….   Over the festive season we produce 25-30% more waste than we normally do. This is unnecessary, expensive […]