Hi Everyone
Change.ie have posted information about the Greenbox Ecolabel and the EU Flower.
Check it out here:
http://www.change.ie/en/Personal-Actions-II/Transport/Holidays/Environmental-standards/
Thanks! Karen.
Showing posts with label climate change. Show all posts
Showing posts with label climate change. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
The Energy Show 2208
The Energy Show 2008
16th – 17th April 2008, RDS Dublin
As you are already aware, Ireland’s national business showcase for energy - the Energy Show 2008 - presented by Sustainable Energy Ireland, is fast approaching.
Spaces on the seminar programme - covering the topics below - are now booking up.
Renewable Energy Solutions for Large Buildings
How to Design Energy Efficient Commercial and Public Buildings
Best Practice in Design and Optimisation of Industrial Equipment
Energy Management for Medium Sized Organisations.
To avoid disappointment on the days of the show you can pre-book your seminar place.
To register and book a seminar, simply log onto www.sei.ie/energyshow
16th – 17th April 2008, RDS Dublin
As you are already aware, Ireland’s national business showcase for energy - the Energy Show 2008 - presented by Sustainable Energy Ireland, is fast approaching.
Spaces on the seminar programme - covering the topics below - are now booking up.
Renewable Energy Solutions for Large Buildings
How to Design Energy Efficient Commercial and Public Buildings
Best Practice in Design and Optimisation of Industrial Equipment
Energy Management for Medium Sized Organisations.
To avoid disappointment on the days of the show you can pre-book your seminar place.
To register and book a seminar, simply log onto www.sei.ie/energyshow
Monday, June 18, 2007
LIVE EARTH
Hi Everyone
Just a newsy bit for your info:
Live Earth is a 24-hour, 7-continent series of 9 concerts taking place on 7/7/07 that will bring together more than 100 music artists and 2 billion people to trigger a global movement to solve the climate crisis.
For more details go to http://www.liveearth.org/.
Karen.
Just a newsy bit for your info:
Live Earth is a 24-hour, 7-continent series of 9 concerts taking place on 7/7/07 that will bring together more than 100 music artists and 2 billion people to trigger a global movement to solve the climate crisis.
For more details go to http://www.liveearth.org/.
Karen.
Friday, June 1, 2007
World Environment Day
Hi Everyone
Karen here. Check out the link below for details on World Environment Day which takes place of Tuesday, June 5th 2007.
What will you be doing to celebrate it?
http://www.unep.org/wed/2007/english/
Karen here. Check out the link below for details on World Environment Day which takes place of Tuesday, June 5th 2007.
What will you be doing to celebrate it?
http://www.unep.org/wed/2007/english/
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Eco-Rockin' all over the world
In July, dozens of pop stars will jet off to save the world via the Live Earth concerts, but who will save us from these ego-friendly celebs, asks Roísín Ingle (The Irish Times Weekend Review, Saturday, April 14, 2007)
Al Gores Live Earth was always going to spark a heated debate. In one corner we have the influential eco-worriers hooking up with canny popstar folk desperate to save the planet- or desperate, at any rate, to be seen to be saving the planet. In the other corner, the naysayers are busy pointing out that perhaps these ego-friendly popstars with their vast property portfolios, powerful cars and extensive shoe collections- Jimmy Choes rather than Birkenstocks obviously- may not be the best people to set a green example to the world.
This is a community who, let’s face it, would pop down to the shops in their private jets if they were let, so asking them to lecture the rest of us on our environmental duties is about as rich as Live Earth concert headliner Madonna. It’s no surprise that in some quarters the 24-hour musical extravaganza which will span seven continents is being billed as the smugfest to be seen at this summer.
The July concert, organised by Gore’s group SOS (Save Our Selves), will see 150 musicians taking part in seven concerts across the world in a bid to “trigger a mass-scale movement to combat our climate crisis”, according to the Live Earth website. (Every time you log on the website an ominous end-of-the-world drum roll is played, just in case you weren’t sure how scary this global warming stuff really is.)
The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Beyonce, The Rolling Stones and, naturally Green Day are some of the other acts on board, and it’s expected that the gigs will be beamed live to two billion viewers via television or the internet. Rumors that Paul McCartney will sing Here Comes the Sun have not been substantiated but, when it comes to global conscience-salving exercise, anything is possible
Between now and July we are going to be hearing a lot more from celebrities about energy efficient lightbulbs and compost bins and the like. At the launch of Live Earth, one of their celebrity spokesmodels, actress Cameron Diaz explained that her own personal planet friendly regime included driving a hybrid Prius, recycling and “carbon neutral travel”. Cammie was brimming with enthusiasm as she pointed out that the planet was, like, totally savable if people just changed their behavior. “We don’t need to build some giant machine that goes up in the air and sucks all the carbon into outer space,” she said. But what about making one for all the planet-saving celebrities?
Al Gores Live Earth was always going to spark a heated debate. In one corner we have the influential eco-worriers hooking up with canny popstar folk desperate to save the planet- or desperate, at any rate, to be seen to be saving the planet. In the other corner, the naysayers are busy pointing out that perhaps these ego-friendly popstars with their vast property portfolios, powerful cars and extensive shoe collections- Jimmy Choes rather than Birkenstocks obviously- may not be the best people to set a green example to the world.
This is a community who, let’s face it, would pop down to the shops in their private jets if they were let, so asking them to lecture the rest of us on our environmental duties is about as rich as Live Earth concert headliner Madonna. It’s no surprise that in some quarters the 24-hour musical extravaganza which will span seven continents is being billed as the smugfest to be seen at this summer.
The July concert, organised by Gore’s group SOS (Save Our Selves), will see 150 musicians taking part in seven concerts across the world in a bid to “trigger a mass-scale movement to combat our climate crisis”, according to the Live Earth website. (Every time you log on the website an ominous end-of-the-world drum roll is played, just in case you weren’t sure how scary this global warming stuff really is.)
The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Beyonce, The Rolling Stones and, naturally Green Day are some of the other acts on board, and it’s expected that the gigs will be beamed live to two billion viewers via television or the internet. Rumors that Paul McCartney will sing Here Comes the Sun have not been substantiated but, when it comes to global conscience-salving exercise, anything is possible
Between now and July we are going to be hearing a lot more from celebrities about energy efficient lightbulbs and compost bins and the like. At the launch of Live Earth, one of their celebrity spokesmodels, actress Cameron Diaz explained that her own personal planet friendly regime included driving a hybrid Prius, recycling and “carbon neutral travel”. Cammie was brimming with enthusiasm as she pointed out that the planet was, like, totally savable if people just changed their behavior. “We don’t need to build some giant machine that goes up in the air and sucks all the carbon into outer space,” she said. But what about making one for all the planet-saving celebrities?
Wednesday, May 9, 2007
International Compost Awareness Week 2007 6th – 12th May
‘Renew the cycle of life’.
During compost awareness week (6th-12th May 2007) an innovative new company, Hug the Bundle is raising awareness of composting to contribute to a reduction in waste sent to landfill in the Fermanagh area. Compost awareness week shows that everyone can get involved to help the environment.
Hug the Bundle is working to inspire parents to reuse household waste and turn this into compost. The aim is to show how easy, convenient and inexpensive composting can be. A key way parents can work to reduce household waste is to consider using environmentally friendly compostable nappies as an alternative to disposables.
According to the Womens Environmental Network (WEN) “Nearly 3 billion nappies are thrown away in the UK every year. The vast majority of these (90%) end up in landfill”.
Ms Gilmartin reports that “although the use of cloth nappies is becoming more popular, compostable nappies can provide a viable alternative especially if you are traveling, working full time, or use a childminder who prefers to use disposables. Biodegradable nappies are free from chemicals, much better for the environment and provide a perfect solution to this problem”
To celebrate international compost awareness week Hug the Bundle has compiled a comprehensive online guide to composting and is offering a FREE pack of sunflower seeds to everyone who visits the website. Log on to www.hugthebundle.com for more information. (Limited supply!!!)
International composting week is coordinated by The Composting Association. The Composting Association is the United Kingdom’s not for profit membership organisation for the promotion of the sustainable management of biodegradable resources. This year the central theme for the campaign is Compost: make it, buy it, use it.
“Compost Awareness Week is an international multi-media publicity and education initiative designed to showcase compost production and demonstrate compost use. It aims to encourage everyone in the UK to take action to support composting at all levels and to use composts. This initiative began in Canada in 1995 and was brought to the UK for the first time in 2001 by the Composting Association”.
Hug the Bundle is an all new organic, environmentally friendly website based in Belleek, Co.Fermanagh. As well as stocking top brand cloth nappies we also stock an extensive range of organic baby clothes, organic mother and baby skincare, fair-trade jigsaws and hand knit hats and scarves.
For more information please contact
Marian Gilmartin
9 Main Street
Belleek
Co.Fermanagh
N.Ireland
BT93 3FY
URL: info@hugthebundle.com
Web: www.hugthebundle.com
Tel: 07930679985
‘Renew the cycle of life’.
During compost awareness week (6th-12th May 2007) an innovative new company, Hug the Bundle is raising awareness of composting to contribute to a reduction in waste sent to landfill in the Fermanagh area. Compost awareness week shows that everyone can get involved to help the environment.
Hug the Bundle is working to inspire parents to reuse household waste and turn this into compost. The aim is to show how easy, convenient and inexpensive composting can be. A key way parents can work to reduce household waste is to consider using environmentally friendly compostable nappies as an alternative to disposables.
According to the Womens Environmental Network (WEN) “Nearly 3 billion nappies are thrown away in the UK every year. The vast majority of these (90%) end up in landfill”.
Ms Gilmartin reports that “although the use of cloth nappies is becoming more popular, compostable nappies can provide a viable alternative especially if you are traveling, working full time, or use a childminder who prefers to use disposables. Biodegradable nappies are free from chemicals, much better for the environment and provide a perfect solution to this problem”
To celebrate international compost awareness week Hug the Bundle has compiled a comprehensive online guide to composting and is offering a FREE pack of sunflower seeds to everyone who visits the website. Log on to www.hugthebundle.com for more information. (Limited supply!!!)
International composting week is coordinated by The Composting Association. The Composting Association is the United Kingdom’s not for profit membership organisation for the promotion of the sustainable management of biodegradable resources. This year the central theme for the campaign is Compost: make it, buy it, use it.
“Compost Awareness Week is an international multi-media publicity and education initiative designed to showcase compost production and demonstrate compost use. It aims to encourage everyone in the UK to take action to support composting at all levels and to use composts. This initiative began in Canada in 1995 and was brought to the UK for the first time in 2001 by the Composting Association”.
Hug the Bundle is an all new organic, environmentally friendly website based in Belleek, Co.Fermanagh. As well as stocking top brand cloth nappies we also stock an extensive range of organic baby clothes, organic mother and baby skincare, fair-trade jigsaws and hand knit hats and scarves.
For more information please contact
Marian Gilmartin
9 Main Street
Belleek
Co.Fermanagh
N.Ireland
BT93 3FY
URL: info@hugthebundle.com
Web: www.hugthebundle.com
Tel: 07930679985
Tuesday, May 1, 2007
Climate Change
Climate Denial has posted a new item, 'Why was The Great Global Warming Swindle so persuasive?'
Why is our belief in climate change still so fragile that many well meaning people have written to this blog claiming that a polemic propaganda film has changed their view of climate change? Surely this requires some explanation.
The fans of the film would argue that it has been effective because it is true.
But truth [...]
You may view the latest post at
http://climatedenial.org/2007/05/01/why-was-the-great-global-warming-swindle-so-persuasive/
Why is our belief in climate change still so fragile that many well meaning people have written to this blog claiming that a polemic propaganda film has changed their view of climate change? Surely this requires some explanation.
The fans of the film would argue that it has been effective because it is true.
But truth [...]
You may view the latest post at
http://climatedenial.org/2007/05/01/why-was-the-great-global-warming-swindle-so-persuasive/
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