Bord Iascaigh Mhara (BIM), Ireland’s seafood development agency, is returning to Bloom this weekend with a marine garden that highlights the need to protect our marine environment against plastic waste. The concept garden, supported by the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund, resembles a giant rockpool and has a fishing net […]
Environment
Mags O’Riordan Bumblebee Flower Farm Coming off the end of National Biodiversity week here in Ireland I thought I’d continue the discussion, as it’s an ongoing crisis. Some disturbing news in the recent IPEBS report had some very sobering statistics. One million species about to become extinct and if we […]
Pat Kane, the founder at reuzi, a one-stop shop for minimal waste lifestyle, tells us how, at reuzi, they go to great lengths to offer only eco-friendly products that are safe, high quality and ethically sourced. When I founded reuzi my main goal was to do the legwork in researching, […]
Allison Roberts of Clonakilty Chocolate and Exploding Tree has been interested in the environment and how we impact upon it from an early age. “I’m not entirely sure why, but perhaps it’s as a result of a Canadian kids’ magazine called OWL and the cartoons ‘The Smoggies’ and ‘Captain Planet’. […]
Seed saving is a labour of love for botanist Madeline McKeever and her daughter Holly Cairns who send their Brown Envelope organic vegetable seeds all over the world from their farm on the remote Turk Head peninsula near Skibbereen. Without seed we have no food. With a Master of Science […]
On January 21 in the High Court, an application for Judicial Review was granted by Mr. Justice Seamus Noonan in Court 6. This Judicial Review will be brought against An Bord Pleanala’s decision to grant permission for a customised thermoplastic compounding factory in Poundlick in Skibbereen. The people of […]
