WLR – Weekly Tips 23 – Waterford Hair and Beauty Industry

The hair and beauty sector can adopt environmentally friendly practices to reduce its environmental impact.   Here are some tips:   Sustainable Products: Choose and offer products that are cruelty-free, organic, and sustainably sourced. Look for eco-friendly packaging options, such as recyclable or biodegradable materials. Water Conservation: Encourage water-efficient practices, such as using low-flow faucets […]

WLR – Weekly Episode 23 – Waterford Hair and Beauty Industry

There’s a move on to help the hair and beauty sector make significant savings by adopting environmentally practices. The sector across Ireland has launched a new sustainability Strategy Action Framework.   In this weeks Ours To Protect reporter Clodagh Walsh hears about the initiative. She speaks to the Local Enterprise Office, to sustainability consultants, Change by Degrees […]

BEAT – Weekly Tips 22 – Fair Seas

This week on Ours to Protect on Beat, Orla hears about the organisation Fair Seas and why they want to make it law to protect the ocean and sea around Ireland. What is Fair Seas? Fair Seas stands as a united front comprising environmental non-governmental organisations with a singular mission – to protect, conserve, and […]

WLR – Weekly Episode 21 – Slí Waterford

A group of young people who make up the Youth Climate Council of Slí  (Waterford Sustainable Living Initiative) held an open mic night in St Patricks Gateway recently where they used the Arts to promote their climate change message. Their guest speaker on the night was Green MEP Grace O Sullivan. Our reporter Clodagh Walsh […]

BEAT – Weekly Tips 21 – The Climate Stage is Yours

This week on Ours To Protect on Beat, Orla took a trip to a unique event at Theatre Royal in Waterford called “The Climate Stage is Yours”. Schools from around the county got involved to find out more about how theatre and the arts can work to address the challenges faced by the world as […]

BEAT – Weekly Episode 21 – The Climate Stage is Yours

Listen back to this week’s episode as we visit “The Climate Stage is Yours” – a festival of five minute climate-themed plays were the result of a number of workshops carried out with primary school students from four city based schools in Waterford city.  The theme was climate change and the role that theatre and […]

BEAT – Weekly Tips 20 – Climate Anxiety

In the latest episode of Ours To Protect, we take a look at the rise in anxiety and stress surrounding climate change and the climate crisis in younger people. Orla hears from people in the South East what they worry about, chats to psychotherapist Caroline Hickman on why this is happening, and highlights how you […]

BEAT – Weekly Episode 20 – Climate Anxiety

Listen back to this week’s episode as BEAT talks to Caroline Hickman, a psychotherapist and lecturer at the University of Bath in the UK – her research area is the impact of climate change  on children and young people in particular. For more in this series listen in to BEAT every Wednesday at 8.25pm