by Lugh@climateconnected | Oct 17, 2025 | Biodiversity, Donegal, Environmental and Sustainability Initiatives, Social Entrepreneurship
OURganic Gardens is an outdoor teaching garden in northwest Donegal. They teach people how to grow food and work with nature, not against it. It’s a place where people can come together to learn, volunteer, and enjoy the outdoors through classes and garden...
by Lugh@climateconnected | Oct 15, 2025 | Galway, Governance and Leadership, Social Enterprise, Waste
Bounce Back Recycling (BBR) is a Traveller-led social enterprise that breaks down mattresses and bulky furniture by hand so their materials can be reused or recycled instead of having to be landfilled or incineratedburned in a heat-to-power factory. It brings together...
by Lugh@climateconnected | Oct 14, 2025 | Biodiversity, Environmental and Sustainability Initiatives, Project Management, Roscommon
The Farming Rathcroghan EIP project gives advice and support to farmers in the local area on how to farm in an historically important landscape, to look after and improve the landscape, while protecting bio-diversity, carbon sequestrationThis is where you do things...
by Lugh@climateconnected | Oct 10, 2025 | Biodiversity, Dublin City, Food, Personal Activism
Named in honour of a local community activist, Richard Taplin, Taplin’s Fields is a community garden in Bridgefoot Street Park in the heart of Dublin in The Liberties. There was previously social housing on the site, which was demolished in the mid-2000s to allow for...
by Lugh@climateconnected | Oct 9, 2025 | Circular Economy, Monaghan, Social Entrepreneurship, Waste
This is a volunteer-led, non-profit toy-lending service that is about reducing waste and over-consumption of toys by allowing people who mind and care for children to borrow toys instead of having to buy new ones. The toys are also carefully chosen to be as...
