Webinar on the work of David Fleming

Open Invitation to Webinar on Surviving the Future: Culture, Carnival and Capital in the Aftermath of the Market Economy Thursday May 4th 2-4 pm Facilitated by Shaun...

MEPs vote to clampdown on imports of palm oil for biofuel

10th April 2017 MEPs voted to ban the use of palm oil in biofuels to counter the unsustainable use of palm oil production. The resolution...

Gallery: It Takes a Village – Cloughjordan & Feeding Ourselves Festival in Pictures. #People4Soil

April 10th 2017 Ireland’s ecovillage capital and rural utopia, Cloughjordan, played host to Cultivate’s Feeding Ourselves festival over the weekend. The focus of the event...

Submission to the Joint Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services in...

Whilst there is much that is welcome in the report, it includes one obvious and serious contradiction. It states that Excessive or wasteful use...

Rare honeycomb reef off Irish coast needs Legal Protections, says Coastwatch Europe

10th April 2017 A rare honeycomb reef off the Irish coast may come under threat due to a lack of legal protection, according to the...

Dooey Dune System and Ballyness Bay, Co Donegal

© 2017 An Taisce - The National Trust for Ireland, Tailors' Hall, Back Lane, Dublin, D08 X2A3, Ireland. +353 1 454 1786 -...

Guided Woodland Walk, Rathmullan Wood, Co. Donegal

© 2017 An Taisce - The National Trust for Ireland, Tailors' Hall, Back Lane, Dublin, D08 X2A3, Ireland. +353 1 454 1786 -...

Irish Greenhouse gas emissions from companies in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme increased in...

7th April 2017 A press release from the EPA has warned that Greenhouse gas emissions from Irish companies have in fact increased under the EU...

To Flush or Not to Flush? The outrageous fortune of wet wipes is causing...

7th April 2017 ‘Think before you flush’ has been the motto of An Taisce’s Clean Coasts for some time but now wily manufacturers are muddying...

Better Europe Alliance response to European Commission 2017 Country Report for Ireland

As part of the annual European Semester process, the European Commission published its Country Reports on each EU Member State, including Ireland, in February...

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