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From Small Wins to a Community Energy Pipeline: GreenPlan Mulranny (Case Study)

Building Energy Use, Case Studies, Committee Tools, Community Energy, Engagement and Communication, Home Energy, Mayo

GreenPlan Mulranny turned a volunteer-run tourist office into a public “green hub” for the whole village—swapping bulbs, cutting bills, refilling water bottles, charging e-bikes from solar, and showing live energy on a screen. Those visible, low-cost actions grew into a community energy pipeline (Sustainable Energy Community → Energy Master Plan → Building Energy Ratings → Retrofits) and helped set the stage for Mulranny’s Decarbonising Zone.

Mulranny Community Futures & Promenade (Case Study)

Case Studies, Committee Tools, Engagement and Communication, Environmental and Sustainability Initiatives, In Ireland Travel, Mayo

A Scottish-style, household-led consultation gave Mulranny a clear, shared brief: footpaths, safer crossings, and a seafront civic space. With a Village Design Statement (2012) to turn that mandate into drawings, the community and council delivered continuous footpaths, traffic calming, and the Mulranny Promenade—even during austerity—shifting the N59 corridor from car-dominated to people-first and setting the stage for later climate actions.

Creative Climate Action: Art and Sustainability in Westside (Case Study)

Case Studies, Community Stories, Engagement and Communication, Environmental and Sustainability Initiatives, Galway, Soft Skills Development

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 conversations about environmental issues, and strengthen community connections. Read the full case study to learn more about this work and what they are able to do.

RIPEET Transition Labs Handbook

The handbook digs deeper into the ‘Transition Lab’ approach for energy transitions. It shows a clearly well set out approach on how to set up, and run sustainability meetings.

The Sketch Game: discovering your team’s diversity

A drawing exercise that shows us how we can have different ideas and views on various subjects and/or goals. This shows how people come from different cultures and have their own views and ideas. It helps show that we all are equal and need respect.

Idea Evaluation and Selection

This is a tool which helps a group in a meeting decide what tasks are most important for them. It also helps them choose what path, ouf many choices, to follow in their work.

Stakeholder Mapping

The people, usually outside your group, that you will work with, are called ‘stakeholders’ These also usually work to improve community sustainability. They can be in local government or international organizations. But they can also be local groups or even just be local people with important skills.

Organizational Self Reflection

This tool, helps you look at yourself so you can ask questions and begin conversations in your group. You will talk and think about how you do things to help make your group fair to everyone no matter who they are or where they come from.

RICE Scoring Method

Your group probably has its one true goal that it was set up for. But it also has lots of other ideas which you all think could help you get to that main goal. The RICE method can help you find out a clear picture of those different big ideas using actual numbers and not just ‘gut feelings’

History Map

The main purpose of this activity is to help the group think about what experiences they have shared with eachother. You will get an idea of what the group has been through together. You should use this exercise at the end of a project, program.