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.
What is the difference between a ‘Case Study’ and a ‘Community Story’?
Well it’s really a question of level of detail.
A ‘Community Story’ is a quick and simple telling of the bare details of a communtiy project – it includes key facts and ideas whio did what and how, and why it’s useful to know about. It also has contact details for how to get in touch with the people runing the project.
A Case Study is a deeper look into a community action or project. It comes with a five page PDF that looks at a whole range of ideas and actions in the project. Many of the case studies have podcast episodes alongside them.
Our latest Community Stories
Mulranny 2030: From Climate Action Hub to UNESCO Biosphere (Case Study)
Once a pass-through village on the Wild Atlantic Way, Mulranny has reinvented itself as a hub for climate action and participatory governance. Building on its Decarbonising Zone plan and a decade of community-led innovation, the village is now aiming for its boldest move yet: joining UNESCO’s global network of Biosphere Reserves.
Mulranny Community Futures & Promenade (Case Study)
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.
Achursáil Árainn – Aran Recycling
A community member owned co-operative of the Aran Islands. The key to the project was the islanders deciding they no longer wanted to dump household and commercial waste to landfill on the island. This affected the quality of the public water supply. A more sustainable view was needed: based on maximum recycling and minimum landfill. This was achieved and almost 60% of all waste on the island is recylced or repurposed – way ahead of the national targets.
Just three of our latest Personal Stories
Victoria, Wicklow, and ‘Fridays for Future’
" It's empowering, even if you're not getting the change you need, it still brings hope."Location Wicklow Name Victoria Useful Links Fridays for Future Ireland: Link List of Climate action groups for young people in Ireland (from Spunout, Nov...
Peadar: Try to find local sources of local food
" My family were able to have access to high quality healthy fresh organic food direct from our neighbourhood "Location Cloughjordan, Co Tipperary Name Peadar Useful Links Food miles explained: Eco Experts Organic Horticulture: Teagasc Impact:...
EV: It has been a very easy journey for me.
I live on an island in a beautiful part of Ireland, and with such small distances to cover, not to mention the carbon footprint from importation of fuel for ICT’s, it seemed the logical choice to drive an EV.
I browsed the internet to find an affordable used EV and bought a used Nissan Leaf from a dealer. It was a Japanese import and is in immaculate condition.