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A summer camp with a difference!

ECO-UNESCO's Summer Camp for Children is an environmental summer camp with a difference, providing a safe environment for children to discover the natural treasures of Dublin City Centre. The Camp is run by ECO-UNESCO, Ireland's environmental education and youth organisation, which has over 25 years experience working with children and young people raising environmental awareness in a fun, interactive and creative way. ECO-UNESCO's staff are fully qualified in all areas of environmental education.

Coastwatch Congratulates Minister Gormely on 'Amendment Five'

Coastwatch has congratulated John Gormley for helping to protect Ireland's wetlands by ensuring that a key symbolic amendment is included in the Planning and Development Bill. This amendment will make it illegal for the Minister of Agriculture to reclaim land without planning permission.

Irish Times: President urged to intervene as late change to planning Act sparks fears

THE LOBBY group Friends of the Irish Environment (FIE) has written to President Mary McAleese urging her to convene the Council of State with a view to referring the planning Act to the Supreme Court to test its constitutionality.

A last-minute amendment to the Planning and Development (Amendment) Act means members of the public "will find it impossible to obtain legal representation if their costs will not be met, even when they win against the State", it warned.

350.org Launches 10/10/10 Global Work Party

Organizers of "most widespread day of political action in history" Push for Action in 2010

BONN - At the UN Climate Talks in Bonn, Germany this week, the international campaign 350.org announced plans for a Global Work Party scheduled for this 10 October 2010. All over the world, thousands of communities will be putting up solar panels, insulating homes, organizing bicycle parades and getting to work on the many solutions to the climate crisis.

Feasta Annual Lecture:Making Sense of the Financial Crisis in the Era of Peak Oil

Nicole Foss, Energy Consultant and Financial Blogger, will present the Feasta Annual Lecture at The Greenhouse,17 St. Andrew Street, Dublin 2.

Tuesday 3rd August 2010 at 7pm.
Entry €10 - €5 Feasta members/ unwaged.

Peak Oil and the collapse of global Ponzi finance are a "perfect storm" of converging phenomena that threaten to sink our age of prosperity through wealth destruction, social discontent, and global conflict.

Foss, who blogs under the name "Stoneleigh" at the website The Automatic Earth (www.theautomaticearth.blogspot.com), will discuss the many converging factors that are contributing to the multi-faceted predicament we face today, and how individuals can build a "lifeboat" to cope with the difficult years ahead.

Call for Papers for Resource Ireland

Cleantech Network in conjunction with the Environmental Sciences Association of Ireland (ESAI) will be hosting two workshops covering sustainability and water at this year's Resource Ireland and are looking for speakers on the topics of sustainability and water.

Sea Shepherd Conservation Society to hold its First Volunteer Training Day, 24th July 2010

Whale wars, the award winning series of documentaries brought Sea Shepherd to the TV Screen.

A small group of international volunteers, intervening to stop the whalers from their bloody business of killing whales in the internationally recognised Whale Sanctuary in the Southern Oceans. You can become part of the onshore network that supports, informs and makes a real difference.

Find out the real value of Sea Shepherd Conservation work: anti Sharking, Galapagos, Seal conservation, Bluefin Tuna.

Applicants wanted for MSc course at the DIT School of Spatial Planning

The M.Sc. Spatial Planning is a 2.5 year part time programme aimed at experienced professionals working in the built environment who wish to become competent in the practice of planning and obtain a professionally recognised qualification.

Students gain practical knowledge of core planning practices; including planning law, development management, infrastructure planning, area planning, environmental assessment and urban design. The group environment, consisting of experienced practitioners from multi-disciplinary backgrounds, fosters a creative atmosphere of interactive, problem-based learning.

Upcoming conferences
IIEA conference: Improving the Energy Efficiency Of Irish Buildings: From Policy to Practice

Upcoming Events

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Friday, 23 July

Go Wild with Nature Summer Camps

Saturday, 24 July

COOL EARTH at the Festival of World Cultures 2010

Sunday, 25 July

COOL EARTH at the Festival of World Cultures 2010

Celebrate International Bog Day at the Bog of Allen Nature Centre

12:00

Biodiversity of Butterflies and bogs day

Friday, 30 July

Introduction to Sustainable Development (FETAC Level 5)

Go Wild with Nature Summer Camps

Saturday, 31 July

Introduction to Sustainable Development (FETAC Level 5)

Sunday, 1 August

INFF Open Days - Minibeasts in the Woods

Tuesday, 3 August

Feasta Annual Lecture:Making Sense of the Financial Crisis in the Era of Peak Oil

Friday, 6 August

Go Wild with Nature Summer Camps

Monday, 9 August