We are a community group, based in Kilcullen, County Kildare. Our aim is to raise awareness and to empower people to make substantive changes in their lives in order to address the issue of climate change.
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Below is a toolkit for community groups who would like to embed the #SDGs into their ethos and activities.
Well, the New Year started off well for our group. We got word in January that we had successfully been awarded a grant of €4,000 in order to do a biodiversity analysis of our area. This is a great opportunity to work with an ecologist to get a detailed look at the different species in Kilcullen and to work on a plan to support all the ecosystems around us. On the 12th February, some of our members met with Nuala, our ecologist, to take a walk around Kilcullen and discuss how to implement the grant. We chatted about the different areas and about how we might get schools and community involved. Nuala then produced the first of the newsletters for the project. We are very excited to be working with Nuala and that the community will benefit from this grant! In other news, we've had several meetings and have formulated some plans for the year, including a circular economy event to be held in May. This will be a celebration of reduce, reuse, recycle and will hi...
How the Food we Eat Impacts the Planet The following is the first of a series of articles written by Ellen Cowley. We are very happy to have Ellen joining us for a short while, working on articles to raise awareness about climate action. Our group has always focused on the many ways that we can care for the planet and we are really pleased to have Ellen’s contribution. We’ll let Ellen introduce herself below and we hope that you enjoy the articles! Hi, my name is Ellen and I am in transition year (TY) in St. Mary’s College Naas. In TY we do the Gaisce programme, where you receive an award for doing 13 weeks of physical recreation, 13 weeks of community service and 13 weeks of a personal skill and at the end an extra 13 weeks of your preferred element. For my community service element of Gaisce I’m delighted to be working with Kilcullen Climate Action Group. I will be writing articles about several different topics and how they impact our climate, our planet and...
So what is the Circular Economy? (Image by Freepik) Put simply, it's based around the idea that we move from a linear model of production and consumption, where we produce, buy, use and discard, to a more circular and sustainable process where we reuse, repair, share, and essentially try to extend the lifespan of products. The move towards a more circular economy involves lots of different parts of society, like industry, technology, business, etc. but it's also something that we can all incorporate into our own lives. And that's where Treasure Town comes in! Our aim is to show all the 'treasure' that is around us in our local area and to encourage people to think of reusing and repairing, or swapping and sharing, rather than buying completely new products. There are lots of reasons to try and reduce the amount of new things we buy - every product that is completely new has incorporated materials and resources (like water or energy usage) which contribute to ca...
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