Tánaiste announces detail of new green construction courses
Tánaiste Mary Coughlan today announced details of new training
programmes for those who have lost their jobs in the construction
sector.
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Solar panel to suit Irish roofs set for Energy Show launch
Irish renewable heating specialists Evergreen Energy are set to launch a new solar panel designed for typical Irish roofs at the Energy Show next week. The show, organised by Sustainable Energy Ireland, will be held next Wednesday and Thursday, 29 and 30 May, in the RDS, Dublin.
Energy event to show Irelands green economy in action
150 Irish and international exhibitors and over 4000 Irish energy professionals are expected to descend on Dublin’s RDS on 29 and 30 April at the Energy Show, according to Sustainable Energy Ireland.
Dublin colleges save 3million through energy saving project
Four Dublin colleges have achieved energy cost savings amounting to €3million by participating in an energy saving initiative.Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin, Dublin Institute of Technology and Dublin City University have just completed their e3 annual energy review, and achieved their 2008/9 target of an average 6 per cent reduction in energy use in 37 buildings after two years.
Plans for eco city abandoned?
Plans for the world's first 'eco city' appear to be dead in the water according to Fred Pearce's excellent Greenwash column
in the Guardian.
Green your home with the Guardian
Guardian green technology Alok Jha correspondent outlines his plans to reduce the energy demand of his terraced London Victorian home in this video.
Green roofs to become mandatory in Toronto?
Interesting news from Toronto, where plans by mayor David Miller to make green roofs mandatory in the city are being criticised by both the construction industry and green roof advocates.
ESB green stimulus to create thousands of energy jobs
ESB yesterday announced a series of initiatives to create up to 6,000 new jobs and training opportunities. Up to 3,700 new jobs will be created outside the company in Ireland in sectors such as smart networks and smart metering, wind energy, electric vehicles, home insulation and new sustainable technologies.
Architecture for good
Via Treehugger, architect Cameron Sinclair writes in the Huffington Post :
For the past twenty years the voice of the architecture profession has mainly been drowned out by the computer generated sky-piercing towers of luxury. Year after year the biggest names in architecture tried to out do each other in what is technically feasible...This constant craving to create jewels of desire in the urban fabric left the general public wondering what on earth we do. Now, with the global economy in tailspin, these exercises in object making have come to a crashing halt. For many of us, we couldn't be more thankful...For those of us that work in this arena we are being swamped with requests for help from the camps in the eastern Congo to the hoovervilles in southern California. The desire for well built, sustainable structures is immense and young professionals seeking meaning are finding themselves drawn to providing their expertise to these communities. There is immense opportunity for architects to work in the service of humanity rather awkwardly trying to define it or worse impose a solution on it.
Ireland predicted to escape global warming catastrophe
IRELAND WILL be one of the few countries left that will be habitable
when global warming leads to a planet-wide catastrophe, one of the
world’s best known scientists has predicted
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Japan announces £100bn green revolution
The Japanese government is to spend 15 trillion yen (£100bn, or as I prefer to write it to really let it sink in, £102,000,000,000) on an economic stimulus package focused on green technologies such as electric cars, solar panels and energy saving building materials, according to an article
The best in green design & architecture
TreeHugger has posted an interesting slideshow on the best in green design and architecture, including Edouard Francois & Duncan Lewis designed French holidays homes (below) that are designed to fit seemlessly into the surrounding environment, and the green roof on the California Academy of Sciences (bottom).
Emissions lower in 2008 for carbon trading companies
Data supplied to the EU Commission by the Environmental Protection Agency shows that the verified emissions of greenhouse gases in 2008 for companies in Ireland covered by the Emissions Trading Scheme are lower than the previous year
Environmental NGOs to join social partnership talks
ENVIRONMENTAL NGOs will be part of social partnership from now on, Minister for the Environment John Gormley has announced.