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May 1oth, 2011 |
Dear Patrick Treacy,
Thanks for taking the time to read our newsletter. Please help strengthen the environmental community in Ireland by submitting articles or notices of events. You can send your contributions to news@ien.ie. We are aiming to publish this eNewsbulletin every Tuesday. Please send material by Monday for inclusion the following day. If you wish to unsubscribe please follow the instructions at the bottom of this email. To read the full articles just click on the links. | Irish people are very "hoppy" about frogs. Every year since 1997 the Hop To It Irish Frog survey has been conducted by the IPCC with the aim of gathering baseline information on this important amphibian. To date we have received over 4,200 records from all over Ireland. "People have a real passion for frogs. In the last two years we have received double the number of records compared to the previous three" says Michael Kenny, [...]
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Transition Ireland and Northern Ireland - TINI have secured a lunch time briefing in Leinster house. On Wednesday May 25th 2011 at 12.30pm in Leinster House they will be detailing peak oil, climate change and community based solutions. The message is that we need to cut our dependence on fossil fuel for a number of reasons and we need local government support for communities wishing to make the transition to a lower carbon future. They are asking "every [...]
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Do you want to work in a challenging environment? Are you energetic, enthusiastic and motivated? Are you passionate about the environment? Do you enjoy working with young people? If you answer yes then maybe a job with ECO-UNESCO is the one for you! Background ECO-UNESCO is Ireland's environmental education and youth organisation, affiliated to the World Federation of UNESCO Clubs, Centres and Associations. Position: Education and Training Officer Reporting to: Programmes and Services Coordinator [...]
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How better to spend the end of the school year than taking part in THE colouring competition of 2011! This May, boys and girls from schools nationwide will get the chance to help the Irish Seal Sanctuary support and care for small seal pups from around the country that get into trouble, we can even get babies into our sanctuary from as young as a day of age! RTE will be following the competition and [...]
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The environmental lobby group Friends of the Irish Environment have urged the Kerry Group to publicly release its greenhouse gas emission figures as the Company is ranked 294th out of the 300 largest companies in Europe in Greenhouse Gas emissions. The ranking is in a Report prepared by Environmental Investment Organisation, a independent non profit organisation based in the UK. The EIO 300 Carbon Ranking focuses not just on emissions but also on levels of [...] |
Charles Stanley-Smith Chair of An Taisce, the National Trust for Ireland was deeply critical of calls by the ESRI's John FitzGerald for Corrib gas to come on-stream in order to address energy security for Ireland. He indicated that the ESRI's John FitzGerald acknowledged lack of familiarity with the Corrib gas controversy (as stated on an interview this morning on RTE radio's Morning Ireland) was evidenced in the naivety of his 'research' paper's proposition that Corrib [...]
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Caring for Irish Wildlife: Seminar on protecting the future of Irish biodiversity Admission is free of charge Our native species are continually under stress from environmental changes including pollution and habitat loss, therefore the assessing and safeguarding Irish wildlife is a difficult but important duty. This seminar will feature talks from experts working with Irish wildlife organisations and on conservation projects. For more information or to make a booking please phone: 01 648 6316 [...] |
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