East Coast – Weekly Tips 40 – Building a Sustainable Home

How to keep your house warm? Keeping your home heated and preventing heat loss can be achieved by insulation and draft proofing.  Internal Insulation:                                               External Insulation – Less expensive       […]

East Coast – Weekly Episode 40 – Building a Sustainable Home

In this week’s episode, Max asks the question, ‘How do you build a sustainable home?’ To get his answer, Max caught up with local carpenter Liam O’Riain about heat insulation. Max also caught up with Dermot Bannon, of RTE’s ‘Room to Improve’ for his expertise on the matter and also to chat about sustainable timber.  […]

East Coast – Weekly Tips 39 – Sustainable Workplaces

Did you know? Sustineo gives training on behalf of National Energy Authority and have trained over 3,000 public sector workers in subjects such as Energy Literacy and Carbon Literacy.  Sustineo’s approach to help organisations become sustainable: Measure Calculate a Carbon Footprint Calculate an Energy Audit To try and ascertain where the carbon hotspots are in […]

East Coast – Weekly Episode 39 – Sustainable Workplaces

In this episode, Max asks the question, ‘What makes a workplace sustainable?’ To get his answer, Max speaks with the founder of Sustineo, Raoul Empey to find out more. For more in this series listen in to East Coast FM every Thursday at 8pm.

East Coast – Weekly Tips 38 – ECO-UNESCO

Did you know? Unesco’s Youth Programme focuses on: Teach young people about environmental issues, climate and bio-diversity. Allowing young people to come together in groups and bringing sustainable ideas to a local level. Allowing young people to feel empowered in terms of sustainable development, as well as feeling hopeful for their future. Eco-Unesco is linked […]

East Coast – Weekly Episode 38 – ECO-UNESCO

In this episode, Max speaks with Elaine Nevin, the Managing Director of Eco- Unesco, where she talks about Unesco’s Youth Programme. Eco-Unesco is an environmental educational youth organisation that involves and educates young people on environmental issues.  For more in this series listen in to East Coast FM every Thursday at 8pm.

East Coast – Weekly Tips 37 – Sustainability in the Sailing Industry

Did you know? Sailing is a Green Sport so the Irish National Sailing School developed a Climate Action Plan in order to become more sustainable. Here are some of the changes they made to their organisation. Transport for the staff in the Irish National Sailing School is important when considering their carbon footprint:  Kenny Rumball […]