TITLE: Cork’s Red FM – Weekly Tips 21 – Cork Zero Waste

  Did You Know:

• Last year the average Irish person produced enough waste for the size of two cars.
• Zero Waste is about:
  • Refusing what we don’t need.
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TITLE: Cork’s Red FM – Weekly Episode 21 – Cork Zero Waste

Listen back to this week's episode as we chat to Kelly Cotel from Cork Zero Waste about the work that they do.  For more in this series, listen in to Cork's Red FM every Monday from 8.50pm[...]

TITLE: Cork’s Red FM – Weekly Tips 20 – Sustainable Fashion with Final Bend

Did You Know:

• Businesses have ‘Corporate Social Responsibility’ to be conscious of their impact.
• Final Bend is eco friendly across the board.
  • The first step she took[...]
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TITLE: Cork’s Red FM – Weekly Episode 20 – Sustainable Fashion with Final Bend

Listen back to this week's episode as we chat to Emma Coffey from Final Bend about what she did after she realised that she wanted to make a positive impact, contribute to ‘Corporate Social Responsibility’ and not contribute to fast fashion. For more in this series listen[...]

TITLE: Cork’s Red FM – Weekly Tips 19 – Cork Clothes Swap

Did You Know:

• Cork Clothes Swap do two monthly clothes swaps in Cork.
  • One is at Revery Books in the Marina Market
  • The other is at St.Peter’s[...]
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TITLE: Cork’s Red FM – Weekly Episode 19 – Cork Clothes Swap

Listen back to this week's episode as we find out about a community led organisation - Cork Clothes Swap. For more in this series listen in Cork's Red FM every Monday at 8.50pm.  [...]

TITLE: Cork’s Red FM – Weekly Tips 18 – Killarney Coffee Cup project

Did You Know:

• 50 plus businesses in Killarney have united to stop single use coffee cups.
• 7 in 10 people have their own cup at home.
• 200[...]
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TITLE: Cork’s Red FM – Weekly Episode 18 – Killarney Coffee Cup project

Listen back to this week's episode as we find out why and how Killarney banned single use coffee cups. For more in this series listen in to Cork's Red FM every Monday at 8.50pm.[...]

TITLE: Cork’s Red FM – Weekly Tips 17 – Think before you flush!

  Did You Know:

• The only thing you should flush down the toilet are the 3 P’s - poo, pee and paper.
• If you flush other things down the toilet, they don’t break[...]
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TITLE: Cork’s Red FM – Weekly Episode 17 – Think before you flush!

Listen back to this weeks episode as we chat with Clean Coasts For more in this series listen in to Cork's Red FM every Monday at 8.50pm[...]

TITLE: Cork’s Red FM – Weekly Tips 16 – Clean Coasts

  Did You Know:

• Clean Coasts are on a mission to make our coasts, rivers and oceans cleaner from litter and waste.
• They work with over 200 community led groups across Ireland.
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TITLE: Cork’s Red FM – Weekly Episode 16 – Clean Coasts

Listen back to this week's episode as we chat with Clean Coasts about the work they do. For more in this series, listen in to Cork's Red FM every Monday at 8.50pm[...]

TITLE: Cork’s Red FM – Weekly Tips 15 – Microplastics With Fionn Ferreira

    Did You Know:

• Ballydehob native, inventor & innovator Fionn Ferriera has come up with a clever solution to combat microplastics in our oceans.
• Microplastics are millimetres in size. Microplastics enter our waters[...]
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TITLE: Cork’s Red FM – Weekly Episode 15 – Microplastics With Fionn Ferreira

Listen back to this weeks episode as Elaine Smith from Cork's Red FM chats about Microplastics and the effect on our environment with scientist and inventor Fionn Ferreira. For more in this series listen in to Cork's Red FM every Monday at 8.50pm.[...]

TITLE: Cork’s Red FM – Weekly Tips 14 – Plogging

Did You Know:

• Plogging is a combination of jogging with picking up litter, merging the Swedish verbs plocka upp (pick up) and jogga (jog) gives the new Swedish verb plogga, from which the word plogging derives.
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TITLE: Cork’s Red FM – Weekly Episode 14 – Plogging With Roger Overall

Listen back to this weeks episode as Elaine Smith from Cork's Red FM chats to Roger Overall who is a plogger. Plogging is the idea of picking up litter while jogging or running and the practice originated in Sweden. For more in this series, listen in to Cork's[...]

TITLE: Cork’s Red FM – Weekly Tips 13 – Food Cloud Part 2

  Did You Know:

• Food waste is one of the biggest Co2 contributors to climate change due to it’s production, watering, packaging, transportation & finally food waste. 
• Wasting food also means it’s a[...]
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TITLE: Cork’s Red FM – Weekly Episode 13 – Food Cloud Part 2

Listen back to this weeks chat with Elaine Smith from Cork's Red FM as she continues her chat with Emer Delahunty, Community Developer with Food Cloud. For more in this series listen in to Cork's Red FM every Monday at 8.50pm[...]

TITLE: Cork’s Red FM – Weekly Tips 12 – Food Cloud Part 1

Did You Know:

• Food production & waste is the 2nd biggest contributor to climate change.
• 40% of food is wasted globally.
• Huge amounts of food waste comes[...]
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TITLE: Cork’s Red FM – Weekly Episode 12 – Food Cloud Part 1

Listen back to this weeks episode with Elaine Smith as she chats with Emer Delahunty, Community Developer with Food Cloud about how food production & waste is the 2nd biggest contributor to climate change. For more in this series listen in to Cork's Red[...]

TITLE: Cork’s Red FM – Weekly Tips 11 – Avoiding Food Waste

  Did You Know:

• The average Irish household can save €700 a year by saving food.
• In the food industry roughly 70% of buffet food is wasted.
• Irish[...]
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TITLE: Cork’s Red FM – Weekly Episode 11 – Avoiding Food Waste

Listen back as Elaine Smith from Cork's Red FM chats with Orla McAndrew, a Bespoke Wedding & Event Catering professional about how to avoid waste at home and at your family occasions.  For more in this series listen in to Cork's Red FM every Monday at 8.50pm.[...]

TITLE: Cork’s Red FM – Weekly Tips 10 – Fair Seas Ireland Part 2

  Did You Know:

• Marine biodiversity sequesters CO2 from the atmosphere, stores it for generations if left undisturbed. 
• Phytoplankton, sea grass & salt marsh are primary producers for storing Co2 & are allies[...]
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TITLE: Cork’s Red FM – Weekly Episode 10 – Fair Seas Ireland – Part 2

Listen back to this weeks episode as Elaine Smith from Cork's Red Fm continues her chat with Dr Donal Griffin the Marine Policy Officer at Fair Seas Ireland.  For more in this series, listen in to Cork's Red FM every Monday at 8.50pm  [...]

TITLE: Cork’s Red FM – Weekly Episode 9 – Fair Seas Part 1

Did You Know:

• Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) Are Designated Areas That Are Set Aside For Conservation. Marine Protected Areas Preserve & Protect Marine Life & Their Habitats Within Them.
• Just 9% of[...]
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TITLE: Cork’s Red FM – Weekly Episode 9 – Fair Seas Part 1

Listen back to this week's episode as Elaine Smith chats with Dr Donal Griffin who is the Marine Policy Officer at Fair Seas Ireland and hear their discussion on what makes up a Marine Protected Area.  For more in this series listen in to Cork's Red[...]

TITLE: Cork’s Red FM – Weekly Tips 8 – The Hive Mind

Did You Know:

• Bees can travel up to 10 kilometres from a hive in search of food.
• Queen bees can be hereditary. When a Queen dies, her offspring can be introduced to[...]
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TITLE: Cork’s Red FM – Weekly Episode 8 – The Hive Mind

Listen back to this week's episode as Elaine Smith chats with Mark Riordan from Hive Mind about his hives in the middle of Cork City Centre.  For more in this series, listen in to Cork's Red FM every Monday at 8.50pm[...]

TITLE: Cork’s Red FM – Weekly Tips 7 – The Hollyhill Seed Library Cork

  Did You Know:

• Growing your own fruit, veg & flowers at home has a huge list of benefits.
  • It creates new green spaces for wildlife.
  • Pollinators have[...]
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TITLE: Cork’s Red FM – Weekly Episode 7 – The Hollyhill Seed Library Cork

Listen back to this episode as Elaine Smith from Cork's Red FM chats with Librarian Elizabeth about the seedbank in Hollyhill and how it operates. For more in this series listen in to Cork's Red FM every Monday at 8.50pm[...]

TITLE: Cork’s Red FM – Weekly Tips 6 – Biodiversity at home

Did You Know:

• Biodiversity is the mesh of all organisms working together. This includes plants, animals, fungi & micro-organisms working together.
• If one of these links are disrupted, it has a knock[...]
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TITLE: Cork’s Red FM – Weekly Episode 6 – EVRA

Listen back to this episode as Cork's Red FM reporter Elaine Smith chats to Eadaoin McCarthy, Founder of ERVA about the importance of bio-diversity, pollinators and our friends the bee's and find out how you can make a difference at home.  For more in this series, Listen in[...]

TITLE: Cork’s Red FM – Weekly Tips 5 – Help your local Wildlife!

Did You Know:

• Irish streams are the home of many species.
• The River Bride is home to herons, brown trout, grey wagtails, dippers, king fishers & otters as well as an array[...]
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TITLE: Cork’s Red FM – Weekly Episode 5 – Save our Bride Otters!

Listen back to this episode as Cork's Red FM reporter Elaine Smith chats to Chris Moody from Save Our Bride Otters about this amazing organisation and the work it does throughout Cork.  For more in this series, listen in to Cork's Red FM every Monday at 8.50pm[...]

TITLE: Corks Red FM – Weekly Tips 4 – ReLove Paint – a Community initiative

Did You Know:

• ReLove Paint is a community, non-profit organisation.
• It’s part of the Northside Community Enterprises as part of their SE scheme to help people from addiction services to get them[...]
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TITLE: Corks Red FM – Weekly Episode 4 – ReLove Paint – a Community initiative

Listen back as Elaine Smith chats with the organisation 'ReLove Paint' based on the Northside of Cork City which is a volunteer and SE run enterprise dedicated to helping reduce waste - in an unusual way! For more in this series tune into Cork's Red FM every Monday at 8.50pm for[...]

TITLE: Corks Red FM – Weekly Tips 3 – Ballyphehane Tidy Towns

  Did You Know:

• Ballyphehane Tidy Towns started by one man who wanted to change his town for the better.
• He started clean ups in his area with the help of his[...]
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TITLE: Corks Red FM – Weekly Episode 3 – Ballyphehane Tidy Towns

  Listen back as Elaine Smith chats with Natalie and Eilis from Ballyphehane Tidy Towns about how they have renewed the sense of community through encouraging bio-diversity, reducing waste and rejuvenating the local area.    Listen back to Cork's Red FM every Monday at 8.50pm for more in[...]

TITLE: Corks Red FM – Weekly Tips 2 – Billy’s Rent a Goat

Did You Know:

• Old man’s beard is an invasive plant, it can spread at a fast pace, dominating a garden and denying native species to grow. It’s counterproductive to biodiversity.
•  Beaumont Quarry[...]
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TITLE: Corks Red FM – Weekly Episode 2 – Billy’s Rent a Goat

  Listen back as Elaine Smith chats with William from 'Billy's Rent a Goat' an innovative scheme to encourage biodiversity in the heart of Cork City. This episode also features Gill from Cork Nature Network and was recorded in Beaumont Quarry in Cork City.   Listen back to Cork's Red FM every[...]

TITLE: Cork’s Red FM – Weekly Tips 1 – Creating a Community Garden

  Did You Know:

• Togher Community Garden started with a tweet from volunteers.
• The garden started on the old site in Togher Park known as the bog. It was disused & neglected until[...]
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TITLE: Cork’s Red FM – Weekly Episode 1 – Togher Community Garden

Join Elaine Smith from Red FM as she heads to the Northside to visit Togher Community Garden and learn about bio-diversity and sustainability in the middle of Corks real capital! For more in this project, listen in to Cork's Red FM every Monday at 8.50pm [...]

TITLE: Cork’s Red FM – Episode 1 – The Panel

Join Elaine Smith on Cork's Red FM for the first programme in the 'Ours to Protect' series [...]