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Panel Programme
To start off our year dedicated to promoting sustainability we’re looking at sustainable leadership. Guests: Councillor Leonard Kelly, Executive Coach Natasha Hughes and Philomena Murphy from Tidy Towns.:
Week 1: SEAI Fergus Sharkey
This week South East Radio looked at innovative sustainable energy solutions as the SEAI invites entries from all sectors for Sustainable Energy Awards 20-year celebration. We’re joined by Fergus Sharkey:
Week 2: GIY with Michael Kelly
Grow It Yourself Ireland better known as GIY is a non-profit social enterprise based in Ireland whose mission is to educate and enable a global movement of food growers whose collective actions will help to rebuild a sustainable food system. We’re joined in studio this morning by founder Michael Kelly as we find out what it’s all about:
Week 3: Karla Sanchez
Karla Sanchez is an independent curator, a farmer and an art historian and works on a regenerative farm in Foulksmills where I took a trip to recently to find out what it was all about:
Week 4: Sustainability at Rosslare Europort
This week South East Radio looked at sustainability at Rosslare Europort with Glenn Carr.
Week 5: Enniscorthy Allotments
This week Alan popped down to Enniscorthy where South East Radio looked at The Enniscorthy Allotments.
Week 6: EPA Climate Emissions Report
This week South East Radio looked at Ireland’s greenhouse gas emissions after a recent EPA report found they decreased by 1.9 per cent in 2022.Joining us to look at this is Stephen Treacy, Senior Scientific Officer, Emissions Statistics team. Office of Evidence and Assessment.
Week 7: Sustainability Handbook.
This week South East Radio looked at a Sustainability Handbook recently launched by Business in the Community Ireland. Joining me on the line to tell us what this is all about is Marian Curry from Business in the Community Ireland.
Week 8: Green Coffins Ireland.
This week we’re looking at a Wexford business called Green Coffins Ireland and we headed down to Killanne recently to see what this was all about:
Week 9: Ashdown Park Sustainability.
This week as part of our Outside Broadcast with the Ashdown Park Hotel in Gorey we met with GM Paul Finnegan to talk about sustainability and biodiversity in the hotel.:
Week 10: Min Ryan Park.
This week we looked at biodiversity and sustainability as Alan took a trip to Min Ryan Park with Councillor George Lawlor:
Week 11: Eleanor Saunders.
This week we spoke to education and learning specialist Eleanor Saunders as we look at Sustainability as a cross cutting topic in third level, professional and corporate education, and innovation for sustainability:
Week 12: Wexford Town Sustainable Energy Community
This week we heard from Wexford Town Sustainable Energy Community whose goal is for Wexford town to be a sustainable, energy efficient and environmentally friendly place for everyone. Patrick Rochford, Chairman and Anne O Reilly Secretary are chatting to us and we’re out on Wexford quay:
Week 13: Wexford Honey Bee Festival
This week we took a trip to Johnstown Castle where there is a buzz about the place ahead of The Wexford Honey Festival which takes place 10th & 11th of September.”
Week 14: Wexford Slobs
This week we talk to Aoife from The Wexford Slobs and Wildfowl Reserve as we look at her work with wind farms and more:
Week 15: Coastal Farming on Bannow Bay
We hear from Wexford Coastal Farmer Kathleen Kinsella about biodiversity & the effects of climate change she sees firsthand.
Week 16: Zero Emission Vehicles Ireland
Last week we headed to the Wexford Electric Vehicle Motor Show & had a chat with Aoife O’Grady, Head of Zero Emission Vehicles Ireland.
Week 17: Biobus
This week we look at a mobile exhibit called Biorbic BioBus which an initiative to explore our petrochemical economy and heavy reliance on crude oil in many of the products we use on a daily basis. The initiative is part of Bioeconomy Ireland week which takes place from the 14th to the 22nd of October. Tommy Boland joins us to tell us more.
Week 18: Coastlines and the challenges we face
This week we meet a coastal geomorphologist , called Professor Iris Möller who researches how physical and biological processes interact at the coast, particularly in the intertidal zone the area between tidal high and low water.
Week 19: Sustainability at Wexford Arts Centre
This week to Wexford Arts Centre to find out about their sustainability strategy and how they implement being sustainable into their every day lives.
Week 20: Sustainability at The National Opera House
This week Wexford is basking in Wexford’s Festival Opera so we headed down to The National Opera House to look at the work they do in terms of sustainability.
Week 21: LEO Wexford
This week we’re looking at an exciting upcoming event in Wexford called “Making Sustainability Happen: Funding Pathways & Success Stories”. The event hopes to encourage positive change in SME’s in Wexford and the south east region.
Week 22: Cois Abhainn
We’re in Blackwater this week as we look at a unique upcycling initiative within the small village in Cois Abhainn Estate in Blackwater Co Wexford.
Week 23: Green Tech HQ
This week South East Radio looked at GreenTechHQ – the home for start ups scale ups and companies with an eye in their sustainable solutions to help climate change.
Week 24: AIB Sustainability Event
This week we headed down to an AIB sustainability event that took place in Wexford recently.
Week 25: Kilmore Community project ‘Ways of Water’
This week South East Radio, headed down to Kilmore Quay to find out about a unique sustainable Project called ‘The Ways of Water’. The team behind the project were Conall Geoghegan, Lynn Haughton, Andi McGarry, and Jeni Roddy.
Week 26: Kilrane National School’s Sustainable Christmas
This week South East Radio, headed down to Kilrane National School to hear how student there are preparing for a sustainable Christmas.
Week 27: The Nappy Market
This week on South East Radio we meet Entrepreneur and Mum Kate Doyle who’s sustainable business called ‘The Nappy Market’ could save parents hundreds every year.
Week 28: EPA Christmas Food Waste
This week South East Radio headed to the Environmental Protection Agency in Wexford where we met with EPA food waste expert Odile Le Bolloch.
Week 29: Recycling Christmas Trees
This week South East Radio headed to Redmond Park in Wexford. One of the seven locations throughout Co. Wexford that is providing Christmas Tree Shredding to the public.
Week 30: Wexford Tidy Towns Legacy
This week South East Radio met Wexford Tidy Towns Legend Philomena Murphy.
Week 31: Tidy Towns
This week South East Radio met Blackwater Tidy Towns Committee Member Dougie Taylor as he tells us about the pride he has in his village and the secret behind their success in tidy towns competitions over the years.
Week 33: Seas off Wexford
This week South East Radio met with Jim Hurley to discuss a recent initiative announced called The Seas off Wexford SPA.
Week 34: Sustainable Fashion
This week South East Radio met founder and director of FéRí a sustainable fashion brand Faye Anna Rochford.
Week 35: CCTV legislation to combat littering
This week South East Radio looked at the new technology that’s set to be used by local authorities to tackle illegal dumping and flytipping.
Week 36: Adamstown Biodiversity
This week South East Radio headed to Adamstown to hear about their biodiversity plans.
Week 36 (b): Wexford County Council Climate Action Plan
This week South East Radio headed to the County Council Hall to meet with staff about their Climate Action draft Plan 2024- 2029.
Week 37: Wave Watchers Creagh College Gorey
This week South East Radio headed to Creagh College in Gorey to find out about a Young Social Innovators campaign they’re doing called wave watchers.
Week 38: Enniscorthy Allotments revisited
This week South East Radio headed back to Enniscorthy Community Allotments to find out about all the work they’ve been doing since our last visit last July.
Week 39: Wexford FC New Sustainability Officer Ciara O Muiri
This week South East Radio headed to Ferrycarrig Park to meet with Wexford FC’s newly appointed Sustainability Officer Ciara O Muiri and other members of the community to talk about how the club can be as sustainable as possible.
Week 40: The Clovelly Green Initiative
This week South East Radio headed to The Clovelly Coffee Shop to hear about a new initiative they’re undertaking to be more sustainable.
Week 41: Presentation Students Trip to Zambia
This week South East Radio met with Presentation Secondary School students who are be undertaking an opportunity of a life time in a few weeks time.
Week 42: Eco Fire
Week 43: Kilmuckridge Klean Up!
Week 44: Monthlies Organics
Week 45: Climate Change Advisory Council
Week 46: Kelly’s Hotel Green Initative
Week 47: Gorey Central School’s Green Flag
Week 48: Carrigduff NS Green Flag
Week 49: Courtown Clean Up
Week 50: Ceadogan Rugs
Week 51: Panel Programme Part 2
