Connecting individuals and communities to promote sustainability actions
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About Climate Connected
This project is building an easy to use set of tools that support people and communities to take the steps needed to help reduce climate change. There are supports to build a ‘decarbonisation’reducing the amount of Carbon Dioxide emissions committee in the community making plan for the local area to reduce carbon emissions. This also includes supports to help get people in our communities more involved in finding out how what we do in our everyday life that increases or decreases the amount of carbon we emit.
About Climate Connected
This project is building an easy to use set of tools that support people and communities to take the steps needed to help reduce climate change. There are supports to build a ‘decarbonisation’reducing the amount of Carbon Dioxide emissions committee in the community making plan for the local area to reduce carbon emissions. This also includes supports to help get people in our communities more involved in finding out how what we do in our everyday life that increases or decreases the amount of carbon we emit.
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Build a Community Structure
Getting an effective team together is a vital step in the community journey to sustainability. We have broken down the actions and resources needed to do this into five key areas where you can build your capacities and skills.
SEE SUCCESS STORIES FROM PEOPLE AND THEIR COMMUNITIES
Some communities and individuals, just like yours have already made great progress on the journey to sustainability, you can see these stories here. Keep in touch and soon you or your community could have it’s own decarbonisation story to tell
Discover Your Carbon Footprint
Our Carbon Footprint tool is currently in development by Energy Co-operatives Ireland Ltd and Galway University. Please join our mailing list and we will let you know when it is ready to use. In the meantime find out about the sustainability impact of your behaviour choices
Make Valuable Connections
Get more people from your community involved in sustainability. Our dialog tool shows you how to get more people talking to eachother and how you can increase how local people become active in making sustainability happen.
Connected Partnership
Connecting with Podcasts
30 minute interviews with people just like you who have set up community sustainability groups in Ireland. They share ideas about how this can be done by anyone.
Episode 1
The story of a sustainable energy co-op in Galway
CFOAT
A sustainability co-op on the Aran Islands. Avril and Darragh explain how this was set up and the difference it has made
Episode 2
The wider co-op experience Ireland and Europe
Co-ops In Europe
Stephanie explains how in her work for CFOAT she meets co-ops around Europe. She tells us how we can learn from them.
Our latest Sustainability Success Stories from Communities
Use Your Mug Galway City
This was a campaign that lasted for 3 months in Galway City. During this time 9 cafes in the city did not sell coffee in paper cups. Instead you had to bring your own keep cup. The campaign was talked about all over the city and it helped get people into the habit of...
Creative Climate Action: Art and Sustainability in Westside
Westside Resource Centre’s community-led projects bring creativity and climate action together to engage residents in meaningful ways. Projects like "Painting the Planet" and "The Air We Share" use art and science to make sustainability understandable, start...
Westside Community Organic Garden: Growing Together for Sustainability
In the heart of Galway’s Westside, a city community turned land that was not being used into a growing centre for sustainability, and connections between people. Set up in 2011, this project...
Sustainability Stories from Individuals
We didn’t really need that second car
The benefits are both immediate, sustainable and you send a clear signal of sustainability, environmental consideration and an active lifestyle to your kids. They will then, hopefully, be more likely and more comfortable making these types of decisions into the future...
Cíara and Keep Cup Campaigns
The impact of my action has been a reduction in my carbon footprint and control on the amount of single-use waste that I produce. For example, if I go out to work 5 days a week for 48 weeks of the year, buy a takeaway coffee, a plastic bottle of water and dispose of...
Dara, installed PV at his home.
In October 2013 we installed 2 kW of Photovoltaic panels (8 panels) ground-mounted at our home. At that time, we also installed a 5kW heat-pump. In September of 2023, we installed a further 2 kW of Photovoltaic panels, making it 4kW in total. The total electricity...
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