Winners of ECO-UNESCO Young Environmentalist Awards 2011 on display at The Greenhouse
This years’ Young Environmentalist Awards Showcase and Ceremony was our biggest yet, with over 200 entries from almost 4,000 passionate and talented young people from across Ireland. Now it’s your chance to see some of the best projects on display at The Greenhouse, Dublin 2, covering waste, water, climate change and everything in between. A […]
IEN Biodiversity Showcase Launched by Minister
ECO-UNESCO was delighted to welcome Jimmy Deenihan TD, Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (pictured) who launched the IEN Biodiversity Exhibition in the Greenhouse last Tuesday, 30th November. This exhibition includes 14 displays from a variety of organisations from around the country who have carried out projects and events to raise awareness and understanding […]
THE IRISH REEF ON DISPLAY AT THE GREENHOUSE
ECO-UNESCO is delighted to announce the exhibition of a unique and wonderful hyperbolic crochet representation of a coral reef where maths, handicraft, marine, environment, art and community combine in an explosion of colour, shape and crocheted form at The Greenhouse, Dublin 2. THE IRISH REEF, is a Satellite of the worldwide Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef […]
ECO-Youth Choices X-Hale Forum
At the end of September, a group of ECO-UNESCO’s ECO-Youth Choices Peer Educators (youth coordinators) saw the culmination of months of hard work during their ‘X-HALE Forum; our community, our future’. The project, in conjunction with the Irish Cancer Society, focused on the environmental, social and economic impacts of cigarettes, from their source and production […]
ECO-UNESCO to represent Ireland at European Youth Meeting for Sustainable Development 2011
ECO-UNESCO will represent Ireland at the European Youth Meeting for Sustainable Development 2011 (EYM2011) in Tallinn, Estonia from 18th to 24th July 2011. ECO-UNESCO Peer Educator Stephen Quinn will attend the meeting as a participant and Youth for Sustainable Development Programme Coordinator Hedda Dick will act as a facilitator at the presitgious meeting which promotes […]
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CALLING ALL YOUNG ENVIRONMENTALISTS! Registration open for Ireland’s biggest celebration of youth ECO-Action: ECO-UNESCO Young Environmentalist Awards 2012
MEDIA RELEASE Monday, 12th September 2011 CALLING ALL YOUNG ENVIRONMENTALISTS! Registration open for Ireland’s biggest celebration of youth ECO-Action: ECO-UNESCO Young Environmentalist Awards 2012 Registration is now open for Ireland’s most exciting environmental awards programme for young people, the ECO-UNESCO Young Environmentalist Awards. The Awards recognise and reward the green achievements of any group of […]
Culture Night 2011 at ECO-UNESCO!
On 23rd September, ECO-UNESCO’s Dublin home, the Greenhouse, opened its doors for an evening full of fun environmental activities as part of Culture Night 2011. Thanks to all children, young people and adults that dropped by, the night was a great success! We were delighted to see so many of you take part in this […]
X-Hale Smoking Initiative
ECO-UNESCO to work with Irish Cancer Society on Youth Project as part of new Young People and Smoking Initiative ECO-UNESCO, Ireland’s environmental education and youth organisation, will be working together with The Irish Cancer Society as part of the first X-HALE Youth Awards Scheme. This is a new initiative which aims to work with young […]
ECO-Youth Choices Drug Prevention Programme
ECO-UNESCO’s work with a group of young people (15-18yrs) from Ballymun Regional Youth Resource Centre (BRYR), who have been taking part in the ECO-Youth Choices drug prevention programme since April, hit its peak this weekend as they competed a very successful cross-generational garden action project. The group linked in with a housing area for […]
