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Join us for a Family Friendly Climate Fest & Outdoor Film Screening!
Posted on July 12, 2017 by Guest Blogger
Stop Climate Chaos, of which Friends of the Earth is a member, will collaborate with Happenings to host 'Dinner with Darwin' on July 22nd! With yoga, delicious food, a Climate Fest, a speakers panel and a movie, there's something for everyone.
Permanent link | Categories: climatechange • event • film • stop climate chaos
Ireland Bans Fracking
Posted on July 10, 2017 by Friends of the Earth
We've done it! Huge thanks to everyone involved.
On Thursday 6th July 2017, President Higgins signed the Bill to legally ban fracking in Ireland into law.
The new law now makes it illegal for any one to look for or extract petroleum from Ireland's onshore.
The success of this campaign is down to the power of people working together to achieve a common goal. From the committed groups across Leitrim, to everyone who contacted their local TD, to those who signed our 11,000+ strong petition, those who showed up in the Dail and Seanad over the last few months, and those who held banners on the streets! Everyone had a role to play. Only together can we take on Government, and win!
Permanent link | Categories: climatechange • energy
Do you want to help Friends of the Earth blossom at Bloom?
Posted on May 17, 2017 by Guest Blogger
Friends of the Earth is looking for volunteers to help educate visitors at Bloom in the Park in Phoenix Park, Dublin from June 1-5 . We’ll be presenting our postcard garden ‘ The Bright Side of Life’ to Bloom visitors and
educating them about the need to create chemical-free food, shelter and nesting spots for beneficial insects in their gardens.
Permanent link | Categories: biodiversity • foodandfarming
Bee-friendly and win tickets to Bloom!
Posted on May 12, 2017 by Cara Augustenborg
With bees in trouble worldwide, bee-friendly gardening can play a vital role in supporting these essential pollinators.
That’s why Friends of the Earth plans to create a nature garden at Ireland’s largest family, food and gardening festival, Bloom in the Park from June 1-5, but we need your help to make it happen!
We’ve partnered with 2016 RTE SuperGarden finalist and permaculture expert, Suzie Cahn, to propose a nature-friendly ‘postcard garden’ at Bloom called The Bright Side of Life. Our nature education garden would showcase how you provide food, shelter and nesting places for important pollinators like bees and other insects.
Permanent link | Categories: biodiversity • foodandfarming
SEAI Energy Show: An Overview of Energy in Ireland
Posted on May 10, 2017 by Friends of the Earth
SEAI Energy Show: An Overview of Energy in Ireland
David West, Dublin FoE, April 2017
posted by Guest Blogger
According to the most recent SEAI energy data report (2015), in line with the recovery from the aftermath of the economic crash, 2015 saw the first year of an increase in energy use in Ireland since 2009. Given this fact, the SEAI Energy Show offered the chance to see where Ireland currently stands on our energy consumption, greenhouse emissions and the mitigation of this impact through renewable energy project roll-outs and innovationsin green technologies.
Permanent link | Categories: climatechange • energy
Naughten's climate plan is an 'F'-ing disgrace
Posted on April 19, 2017 by Oisín Coghlan
If Minister Naughten's draft climate plan was a fridge-freezer it would get an F-rating.
Click here to tell him we want a new plan that we can be proud of.
After 6 years Enda Kenny's Government has finally published a draft climate plan. But it's so awful it's embarrassing. In the face of the greatest threat humanity faces Ireland is looking for a free ride.
It's not really a plan at all, it reads like a discussion document. And it doesn't actually adopt any new actions to reduce Ireland's emissions.
Our political leaders are putting vested interests ahead of the public interest. And they are counting on the public not paying attention.
We want your help to prove them wrong.
Permanent link | Categories: climatechange • energy
‘Social Acceptance of Wind Energy Projects’
Posted on April 04, 2017 by Guest Blogger
SEAI & IEA Task 28 Seminar, ‘Social Acceptance of Wind Energy Projects’
29/03/17, Clayton Hotel Burlington Road:
David West, Dublin Friends of the Earth
Permanent link | Categories: energy
What's possible in just one hour?
Posted on March 24, 2017 by Oisín Coghlan
This Saturday is the 10th annual Earth Hour, when people turn off their lights in a "a global moment of solidarity for climate action", as President Michael D Higgins called it today.
As a supporter of Friends of the Earth you know that symbols can be important, but they only get you so far in the struggle to shift Ireland to a more sustainable path. Our fight for a fossil free future is fought week in, week out against political indifference, bureaucratic inertia and vested interests.
Permanent link | Categories: climatechange • energy
Help us bring Mr Frackhead to Ireland
Posted on March 09, 2017 by Oisín Coghlan
Over 11,000 people signed the petition urging TDs to progress the Bill to ban fracking without delay. It was the fastest and biggest response to an action we have ever had. Thank you.
Permanent link | Categories: climatechange • energy • fracking • bill
Have you signed the fracking petition yet?
Posted on February 08, 2017 by Heather Mason
5657 people haven now signed our petition to tell the Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action to pass the Bill to ban fracking without delay.
But we don't have your name yet.
It has been retweeted across the world including by celebrities Susan Sarandon, Glen Hansard and Mark Ruffalo, to name a few who are showing their support.
The Bill is under a public consultation phase which ends this Friday, 10th February. We really want to pass 10,000 signatures before then with our sister petition on Uplift.ie (maybe you signed there?) which has 3220 names already.
Help us get to 10,000 signatures by the time the public consultation closes this Friday .
Add your name today
Permanent link | Categories: climatechange • energy
