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
Coill Chormaic: A Community-Driven Model for Sustainable Forestry
Discover Coill Chormaic, a cooperative forestry project that was inspired by the life of Cormac ó Braonáin, a passionate campaigner for nature. This project brings together family, friends, and neighbors to plant a native Irish forest that supports the joined-up web...
Aran Islands Case Study
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Sustainability Stories from Individuals
Aoife, Cork, decided that if she wanted to spend money in town she would cycle and not drive
Last year I got a bike from the cycle-to-work scheme. I decided that if I wanted to spend money in town I would cycle in and not drive.Location Wilton, Co. Cork Name Aoife Useful Links Department of Transport: Why your journey counts. Potential Impact: If you...
Tommy: had a sustainablility dream, and went for it.
I set up a 2.5 acre sustainable market garden. What started off as hobby gardening is now scaled up to about 2.5 acres in producing fruit and vegetables. I wondered if it was possible to produce food in a sustainable way, both environmentally and financially, and as...
Avril, Sligo, “Don’t make it a one time thing, make it a habit”
I Upgraded to reusable water bottles and tea cups, and started buying second hand clothes. Location Sligo Name Avril Impact: Over it's typical lifetime a re-useable coffee cup saves approximately 10kg of CO2 equivalent. What inspired you to do this?Further Education:...
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