FUTURE LIVING

Collection highlighting a wide variety of sustainability themed content which impacts people's lifestyles and living habits across topics like food, home and fashion.

FUTURE LIVING

Collection highlighting a wide variety of sustainability themed content which impacts people's lifestyles and living habits across topics like food, home and fashion.

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SPAIN-FIRE-CLIMATE-ENVIRONMENT
Spain and Portugal wildfire weather made 40 times more likely by climate crisis, study finds
Wildfires were 30% more intense than would have been expected without global heating, scientists say

Thu, 04 Sep, 2025

Solar panel installation on residential house
Budget must help households cut emissions, says advisory council
The Climate Change Advisory Council said the Government must boost supports for home retrofitting, heat pumps, and solar panels

Wed, 03 Sep, 2025

Middle-class pursuit of Insta-friendly kitchens a distraction from the real problems with our homes
Middle-class pursuit of Insta-friendly kitchens a distraction from the real problems with our homes
Pressure to perform prosperity is relentless in this era of waste and inequality

Tue, 02 Sep, 2025

Catherine Conlon: At a time of global uncertainty, the Cork-Kinsale Greenway cannot be allowed to fail
Catherine Conlon: At a time of global uncertainty, the Cork-Kinsale Greenway cannot be allowed to fail
The silent majority who spend hours in traffic may well be in favour of this greenway, but they are not as organised as farmers and landowners

Sun, 31 Aug, 2025

The progress in other cities makes Cork look like a backwater
The progress in other cities makes Cork look like a backwater
The uncomfortable truth is the majority of people in this city voted against Cork having more power

Wed, 27 Aug, 2025

We must connect ordinary people with their city's future
We must connect ordinary people with their city's future
A Limerick City project involves architects, students, city officials and members of the public in shaping all the layers of their city's future 

Wed, 27 Aug, 2025

Heavy traffic in istanbul
S New roads mean more traffic, not less — somebody should tell Galway County Council 
New roads cause more traffic, not less, but that doesn't stop people from wanting them. It's time to change tack, writes Ciarán Ferrie

Wed, 28 May, 2025

Cork County Council to seek expressions of interest for €50m Bottlehill landfill site
Cork County Council to seek expressions of interest for €50m Bottlehill landfill site
The local authority is trying to recoup some of the significant monies spent on the then state-of-the art landfill at Bottlehill

Mon, 05 May, 2025

Nature in danger
How the EU is pushing back against fast fashion
New rules seek to address one of the modern economy's most pressing workers' rights and climate issues, writes John Hearne

Fri, 25 Apr, 2025

Cork’s Black Ash bus hub could feature large-scale solar farm under new plan
Cork’s Black Ash bus hub could feature large-scale solar farm under new plan
City officials to examine the feasibility of including solar panels as part of proposed redevelopment of park-and-ride site

Thu, 06 Mar, 2025

Bike to college scheme to be introduced in the budget
Bike to college scheme to be introduced in the budget
Minister says initiative will help Ireland to meet its 2030 carbon reduction targets

Sun, 02 Mar, 2025

Irish adults waste more than €370 worth of food a year, survey finds
Irish adults waste more than €370 worth of food a year, survey finds
This contributes significantly to global greenhouse emissions, and combatting food waste can be a critical climate action

Mon, 24 Feb, 2025

Refrigerator With Fruits And Vegetables
Innovation may cut energy use of fridges which consume 4% of the world's electricity
The study also found that the technology could be expanded across various applications, from wearable cooling devices to industrial-grade scenarios

Fri, 31 Jan, 2025

The London Motor Show
Difficult to see how government will reach sales target for electric vehicles, says State oil agency
The National Oil Reserves Agency said oil demand will continue due to 'slow' improvements in public transport

Tue, 28 Jan, 2025

Group of bicycles in the row on parking for bikes in European city.
Minister parked Vat rate cut on bikes over worries it would not be passed on by traders
Officials said a suggestion by the Department of Transport over a direct grant scheme might be a better approach

Tue, 21 Jan, 2025

Subsidised Leap card for workers among pilot schemes to encourage people to use public transport
Subsidised Leap card for workers among pilot schemes to encourage people to use public transport
Another scheme rolling out in southern parts of the country is aimed at laying the foundations for increased public transport uptake among school-age children

Wed, 15 Jan, 2025

The five-minute city: inside Denmark’s revolutionary neighbourhood
The five-minute city: inside Denmark’s revolutionary neighbourhood
While ambitious urban planners try to make 15-minute cities a reality, the Nordhavn district of Copenhagen has gone one better. What’s life like when everything you need is just a stroll away?

Sat, 21 Dec, 2024

Loved by cyclists, loathed by landowners, why are greenways so divisive?
Loved by cyclists, loathed by landowners, why are greenways so divisive?
Greenways are providing a tourist boost for local communities, and hugely popular with domestic visitors, but could numerous spats with landowners risk plans to invest a further €1bn on their rollout? Ellie O'Byrne reports

Sun, 13 Oct, 2024

Irish forest, Muckross Lake, Kilarney
Government's environmental pledges 'not strong enough', says report card
The assessment conducted for Friends of the Earth acknowledges that Ireland has made significant progress, rising from a C+ grade last year to a B- now

Tue, 27 Aug, 2024

Ratcliffe on Soar coal fired power station near Nottingham, UK, responsible for massive greenhouse gas emissions.
EU reduces greenhouse gas emissions, but not fast enough
Ireland is one of 20 countries that has decreased greenhouse gas emissions in the first quarter of this year

Fri, 16 Aug, 2024

Paris 2024 Olympic Games - Tuesday July 23rd
83 bottles of wine per person: how experts are calculating the Paris Olympics’ carbon footprint
It’s time to reinvent the Olympic Games and mega-events to align them with international climate goals, they could actively help their host region’s energy and climate transition, such as through urban regeneration, writes Anne de Bortoli

Thu, 25 Jul, 2024

Restoring 9% hospitality VAT rate 'remains unjustified'
Restoring 9% hospitality VAT rate 'remains unjustified'
The tax strategy papers also make clear that Ireland 'must deliver' on agreed climate action measures with taxation playing a role to achieve that

Tue, 23 Jul, 2024

Electric car charging
New car registrations drop 50% in June, with just 692 electric cars registered
From January to June, a total of 10,747 new electric cars were registered, marking a 25% decrease year-on-year

Mon, 01 Jul, 2024

Solar energy
Countries fail to agree on size of fund to fight climate change ahead of Cop29 summit
It comes ahead of the the Cop29 climate talks in Azerbaijan in November, where nearly 200 countries need to agree on a new annual financing target for helping poorer countries cut their emissions and protect their societies in a harsher, hotter world

Thu, 13 Jun, 2024

power supply for electric cars
Councillors agree €22m plan to install 700 public EV chargers in Cork City by 2030
The adopted strategy has identified 244 neighbourhood charging stations and 65 community charging stations, as well as between 550 and 700 individual charging points

Wed, 05 Jun, 2024

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