Global Youth Citizens for Sustainable Development
Ireland’s Global Youth Citizens Speak Out about RIO+20 at ECO-UNESCO’s National Youth Meeting Young people from across the island of Ireland gathered at the Greenhouse in Dublin to learn and share their ideas about sustainable development at ECO-UNESCO’s “Global Youth Citizens for Sustainable Development – A National Youth Meeting for Rio+20.” This one day interactive event […]
Road to Rio+20: Exploratory Event
ECO-UNESCO hosted a group of educators from NGOs, schools and youth organisations at the Greenhouse for the Road to Rio+20 Exploratory Event on Wednesday, 18th January. The group participated in interactive activities examining the role young people played at the original Earth Summit in 1992. They also examined the idea of sustainable development while sharing […]
The Coral Reef is Back!
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-UNESCO Launches Green Pathways Programme
Green Pathways – a new training programme as part of the new Momemtum initiative ECO-UNESCO, Ireland’s leading environmental education and youth organization, announces its newest initiative called Green Pathways aimed at training and progressing unemployed people who are under 25s onto employment in the green economy. The programme, part of the newly launched FAS […]
ECO-UNESCO’S Youth Exploring Rio+20
ECO-UNESCO welcomed young people from across Europe to join policy makers and experts at the Youth Exploring Rio+20 – A UNESCO Clubs Transnational Youth Meeting at the Greenhouse Young people from France, Italy, Latvia, and Malta have come to Ireland to meet key politicians and policy makers, to have their voices heard about how to […]
Tenacious Trees launch their short animation ‘Love the Trees’
ECO-UNESCO Peer Education Programme – Latest News The YSD peer education group successfully launched their animation drawing attention to the importance of trees worldwide and the impact deforestation has on. The group: Alia, Jing, Eoin, Alacque and Robert who received a grant from ECO-UNESCO’s Clubs in Action Fund supported by Toyota have been painstakingly working […]
International News Young Italian visitors take ECO-Action in Dublin!
A group of 19 young people from Italy visited Ireland for a study visit to complete a customised 2 week ECO-UNESCO Community Development Programme. As part of the programme, the young people completed environmental action projects including public environmental awareness surveys. We were highly impressed with the level of enthusiasm, dedication and positive energy that they brought to their […]
In Town Without My Car Day
ECO-UNESCO participated this year’s ‘In Town, Without My Car Day!’ (formerly Car Free Day) on 22 September 2012 during EU-Mobility Week. ECO-UNESCO organised a joint workshop with Rothar, a community bike organisation in Dublin.
Irish Cancer Society X-Hale Youth Awards Film Premier 2012
The Irish Cancer Society as part of the X-Hale Youth awards premiered 14 anti smoking videos produced by youth groups all over Ireland. The awards, which were Oscar themed, were held in the fantastic Light House Cinema in Smithfield, Dublin 7 on Tuesday, October 30th. The ECO-UNESCO young people who developed a split screen video […]
PEPS trip to Fota Wildlife Park
ECO-UNESCO Peer Education Programme – Latest News PEP groups for the last two years had a fantastic day trip to Fota Wildlife Park courtesy of Irish Rails ‘The Journey’s on us’ community initiative. ECO-UNESCO recieved 50 free rail tickets to Fota, Cork as part of this initiative which aims to thank groups for the […]