Midlands 103 – August Episode Part 1 – Tullamore as a decarbonisation zone
Offaly County Council plans to cut emissions, boost energy efficiency and lead climate action locally as it turns Tullamore into a Decarbonisation Zone. The initiative will focus on transport, energy, waste management and community engagement. The goal is to find successful strategies that can then be scaled up and implemented across the rest of the […]
Midlands 103 – July Episode Part 2 – Micro Flower Farms
In this episode of Ours To Protect you’ll hear about being a mirco flower farmer. Anna Browne, who runs Big Sky Flowers from her home in a housing estate in Mullingar. She uses her garden to grow flowers that she can sell. She also teaches workshops on sustainability. 11-year-old Izabel from Offaly had lots of […]
Midlands 103 – July Episode Part 1 – Environmental Tourism
In this episode of Ours To Protect you’ll hear about plans to turn a midlands lake into a tourist amenity. The students from Colaiste Naomh Coramc in Kilcormac has been studying the nearby Silver River. 5th Year students Aine Rigney and Oliver young have been speaking with Brendan Bennett, Chair of the Silver River Anglers […]
LMFM – August Episode – Fast Fashion
It’s one of the greatest environmental threats of our time from a number of perspectives, yet we continue to relentlessly make more and more clothing, cheaper and cheaper? With 65% of clothing ending up incinerated or in landfill and the majority of the rest exported to mostly poorer countries elsewhere in the world, we have […]
LMFM – July Episode – Energy Efficiency and Water Conservation
A lot done much more to do probably best sums up where we are in Ireland when it comes to making our homes, schools and businesses more energy efficient in terms of use, where and how we generate and source these precious resources. Why should we change the way we heat or cool our homes, […]
KCLR – August Episode – Fast Fashion
In our latest episode of Ours to Protect, students from Gaelscoil Osraí, Kilkenny, Bunscoil McAuley Rice, Callan, Co. Kilkenny, St. Brigid’s National School, Bagenalstown, Co. Carlow and School of the Holy Spirit, Kilkenny have turned their attention to the topic of Fast Fashion, questioning why is fast fashion bad for the planet, what happens clothes […]
KCLR – July Episode – Biodiversity
In our third episode of Ours to Protect we turn our attention to Biodiversity, and opening this month’s programme we hear audio of wildlife and nature recorded from the grounds of Kilkenny College as part of a collaboration with metaLAB Havard Climate Institute for Climate and Sound, which aims to map climate change through sound. […]
Galway Bay FM – August Episode – Sustainability
Welcome to this episode of Ours to Protect. In this episode we’ll be discussing Sustainability with Mary Bermingham Sustainability Educator, Shane Mooney the MD of SPECO Sustainability Consultancy and we also hear from schoolchildren across Galway about their thoughts on sustainability. For more on climate change – listen in to www.galwaybayfm.ie next up is green […]
Galway Bay FM – July Episode – Green Transport
Welcome to this episode of Ours to Protect. In this episode we’ll be discussing Green Transport with Kevin Jennings of the Galway Cycling Campaign and Brendan Mulligan of The Gluas Campaign and hear from schoolchildren across Galway about their thoughts on Green Transport. For more on climate change – listen in to Galway Bay FM, […]
Sunshine 106.8 – July Episode – Think before you flush!
In this edition of Ours To Protect Carol Dooley meets Liane Costello from Clean Coasts and Patrick Cross from ‘Think Before You Flush’ and Sunshine’s Jane McNamara talks to the young students from Scoil Colmcille in Ballybrack about their commitment to protecting our coasts and marine life. The Clean Coasts programme helps protect and care […]
