Sustainability Success Stories
Learning from others’ experiences is a great way to start your sustainability journey. We are collecting stories from individuals and communities that will tell you what they did and how they went about it.
Our latest Community Stories
Aran Islands’ Energy Co-operative
We are a community owned energy cooperative representing the 3 Aran Islands. Lifetime membership is open to everyone who lives on the Islands for a fee of just €100. The cooperative is non-profit with all of the benefits going back into the community. The co-op shows...
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...
Just three of our latest Personal Stories
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...
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...
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...