Off the coast of Ireland, history was just made. While windpower is taking off, and could soon produce as much as 20% of America's power, harnessing energy from the ocean is still in it's infancy.
But recently Marine Current Turbines successfully completed the installation of the world's first megawatt-scale tidal turbine. And now we've got the first images of the turbine installed to prove it.
According to published reports Ireland has far exceeded EU targets for the recycling of packaging waste.Â
Looks like a UFO has landed in the countryside of County Sligo in Ireland. Good sized venue with overnight accommodation for up to 38 people, making it suitable for special events such as yoga, writing weekends, music retreats, weddings, green conferences, team building etc.
An Irish company has come up with an exciting new product - Carbon Neutral Concrete. This is a good example of how engaging the drive and initative of the private sector is going to be one of the key criteria to ensure successful steps to minimise Ireland’s carbon footprint
What impact do trees have in a city
Ten easy ways that you can make a difference
A man in Ireland is replanting Irelands Oak forest, and financing it by sellling the trees as memorial trees, to people all over the world. A living memorial to a loved one planted in Ireland
ONE OF the country’s most exclusive department stores is shelving its tradition of selling animal fur products.
Brown Thomas will initiate a "no fur" policy from February, with management insisting it was taking animal welfare into account.
The move has been welcomed by animal rights activists who have recently campaigned outside the store’s Grafton Street branch.
Brown Thomas stores in Dublin, Cork, Limerick and Galway will only sell synthetic fur, or leather, suede, sheepskin, and shearling.
Ireland will ban traditional light bulbs in favor of energy-saving alternatives from 2009. When will the United States also see the light?
Irish scientists have isolated a bacterium that can convert a toxic waste product into safe, biodegradable plastic. This week, scientists Kevin O'Connor and Patrick Ward, of the Department of Industrial Microbiology at University College Dublin, announced that they have discovered a bacterial strain that uses styrene, a toxic byproduct of the polystyrene industry (which produces Styrofoam, among other things), as fuel to make a type of biodegradable plastic, polyhydroxyalkanoate, known as PHA.
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