Cork Greenmap Weblog http://corkgreenmap.org/blog Your guide to sustainable living in Cork Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:54:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 en Ballincollig Gunpowder Walk http://corkgreenmap.org/blog/news-and-events/ballincollig-gunpowder-walk/ http://corkgreenmap.org/blog/news-and-events/ballincollig-gunpowder-walk/#comments Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:54:06 +0000 alice http://corkgreenmap.org/blog/news-and-events/ballincollig-gunpowder-walk/

Jenny Webb will be leading a gunpowder walk in  Ballincollig Regional Park on Sunday 29th August starting at 1.45pm from the GAA (eastern) end of the park.

All Welcome.

]]> http://corkgreenmap.org/blog/news-and-events/ballincollig-gunpowder-walk/feed/ Convergence Sustainable Living Festival 2010 http://corkgreenmap.org/blog/news-and-events/convergence-sustainable-living-festival-2010/ http://corkgreenmap.org/blog/news-and-events/convergence-sustainable-living-festival-2010/#comments Sat, 15 May 2010 10:29:45 +0000 alice http://corkgreenmap.org/blog/news-and-events/convergence-sustainable-living-festival-2010/ Check out the upcoming events  etc in the festival brochure:http://www.cultivate.ie/convergence/C15_Brochure.pdf

]]> http://corkgreenmap.org/blog/news-and-events/convergence-sustainable-living-festival-2010/feed/ Transition Cork http://corkgreenmap.org/blog/news-and-events/transition-cork/ http://corkgreenmap.org/blog/news-and-events/transition-cork/#comments Sat, 15 May 2010 10:13:34 +0000 alice http://corkgreenmap.org/blog/news-and-events/transition-cork/ Cork City now has a transition group - join up here:http://transitiontownsireland.ning.com/group/corkcityThis site is for sharing among Transition Towns initiatives in Ireland & Northern Ireland. This network belongs to a worldwide initiative building community resilience to face the effects of climate change, peak oil and economic breakdown. To find out more go towww.transitionculture.org and www.transitiontowns.org

]]> http://corkgreenmap.org/blog/news-and-events/transition-cork/feed/ Turning Trash into Cash, rx3.ie http://corkgreenmap.org/blog/news-and-events/turning-trash-into-cash-rx3ie/ http://corkgreenmap.org/blog/news-and-events/turning-trash-into-cash-rx3ie/#comments Fri, 15 Jan 2010 11:10:00 +0000 alice http://corkgreenmap.org/blog/news-and-events/turning-trash-into-cash-rx3ie/ Rx3 has been created as the new name for the Market Development Programme. Rx3 “rethink recycle remake” works with a range of partners and stakeholders to create markets for recycled materials.

Rx3 are running a Sustainable Innovation Forum on 27th April. This will highlight thinking around sustainability and design, showcase recycled products and ideas that unite social, economic and environmental values.  It will also highlight opportunities and provide information and support to stakeholders and people who have an interest in the waste marketplace. As part of the forum Rx3 are hosting two competitions.

60 Green Minutes
Participants need to demonstrate how waste can be recycled to make new products. The core task is to demonstrate a business idea that takes something disposable and transforms it into something of greater use and value.

Turning Trash into Cash
Student competition for artwork, products and business ideas working with waste materials.

To find out more see http://www.rx3.ie.

Please feel free to forward this onto interested contacts. 

]]> http://corkgreenmap.org/blog/news-and-events/turning-trash-into-cash-rx3ie/feed/ Grow It Yourself Cork http://corkgreenmap.org/blog/food/grow-it-yourseld-cork/ http://corkgreenmap.org/blog/food/grow-it-yourseld-cork/#comments Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:47:02 +0000 alice http://corkgreenmap.org/blog/food/grow-it-yourseld-cork/
The first Grow It Yourself (GIY) CORK meeting takes place on Tuesday the 1st of December at 7pm, South Presentation, Evergreen st. Cork City. 

GIY networks aim to take the ‘self’ out of ‘self- sufficiency’ by getting back-garden growers together on a regular basis to talk, learn from each other and exchange tips, produce and war-stories!

The meetings are free and open to people interested in food growing at all levels, i.e. from growing a few herbs on the balcony to complete self- sufficiency, from beginners to old hands. Hundreds of people are involved in existing GIY groups around Ireland and activities include talks on specific food-growing topics, garden visits, seed swaps, produce bartering, mentor panels and the return of the meitheal (where growers get together in one another’s gardens to carry out some growing related task).

For more information: Call 086 3743132 (Naomi)
email: giycork@gmail.com

Supported by Cork Food Web http://corkfoodweb.ning.com

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