Ecolution

This is a shorter episode than usual to highlight two things. Earth Hour, this Saturday, but also a change in the next season. James explains all in a poignant mini show.

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We’ve teamed up with the youth organisation Spunout.ie to try and explain what COP 26 is all about. Orla, Peter and Amy, 3 teen volunteers, delve in. Plus, we hear from climate activist Theresa Rose Sebastian and the YMCA Sustainable Sleepover Club Podcast too.

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Paddy Shanahan is a 12 year old Climate Activist who got in touch with Ecolution to speak about the Climate and Nature Summit. We met him on Sandycove beach to talk about the importance of the climate crisis being put at the centre of our education system. And, how this Summit would be a great way to get that message across in your school.

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Made in conjunction with the schoolchildren of St. John the Baptist Boys’ Primary School for Cashel Arts Week, this episode speaks to future farmers and their parents about how the land is used, and what changes we’ll see in the coming years.

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Made in conjunction with the schoolchildren of Holy Trinity, Fethard for Cashel Arts Week, this episode looks at how water influences a town, how we use it and the ways in which people can act to value water more.

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Made in conjunction with the schoolchildren of Cashel and Fethard for Cashel Arts Week, to investigate one place in great detail. This episode asks where the town has come from and what it could become.

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This week we head back into the wild to ask how wolves could play a part in Ireland’s future. We visit Wild Ireland in Donegal to meet their wolf pack, talk with Rewilding Ireland and meet Tomm Moore to find the inspiration behind Wolfwalkers.

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In a time of scary heat and massive flooding, Ecolution talks with some of the young An Taisce Climate Ambassadors who are working so hard to make a better future. For us all. Aiyana Helder, Sam Spillane and Grace Curry talk about how they began and why it’s important to start climate action, at whatever level you can, wherever you are.

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Today we meet Karen and Lou, who cycle to school through Dublin. Professor Paul McNally of the National Children’s Research Centre discusses air quality and what it can do to our lungs. And journalist Bob Flavin talks about the future for the motor car. Plus a lot of other families who want better air and safer ways for us to actively travel.

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Today’s Ecolution asks can rewilding help in slowing the climate crisis? We’re joined by Dr Una Fitzpatrick of the All Ireland Pollinator Plan. Pádraic Fogarty discusses the big plans contained in Shaping New Mountains. Plus Ray O’Foghlu talks rewilding, land and wild woods.

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