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 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 […]

Cork’s 96FM – Weekly Tips 22 – Republic of Work

This week 96FM spoke with Eshna Gogia, Programme Manager at Republic of Work Did you know…  Republic of Work has linked up with the 2050 Sustainability Ecosystem, an initiative which aims to bring people together to focus on climate action, through workshops, roundtable discussions and an annual forum. This week an event looking at how […]

Cork’s 96FM – Weekly Tips 21 – Hair Salon Sustainability

This week 96FM spoke with Lorraine Naughton owner of OB1 Salon.  Did you know…  The average full time hairstylist  generates 3 kgs of waste each year,  after 5 years that’s an estimated 236 kgs of waste sent to landfill.  Hair can be used to make booms which clean up oil spills. Before Green Salon Collective […]