ECO Explorers Summer Camps 2016

ECO-UNESCO offer great outdoor adventures for young ECO-Explorers during the Easter and Summer holidays. Our ECO-Explorers children’s camps have interactive games, hands-on activities, outdoor education and much more. Camp activities include art projects, planting seeds, and lots of green exercise – that’s exercise outdoors! Make new friends, get active and learn about nature and the environment.   […]

YEA Regional Training

ECO-UNESCO offers free ‘6 Steps to Succes’ training to teachers, youth leaders and young people on all they need to know about the Young Environmentalist Awards programme and how it can benefit young people. The training is designed to help young people become well-equipped to carry out their very own environmental action project and is […]

The People’s Choice Awards

Shackleton’s Gardens, Blakestown Community School, Blanchardstown, Dublin 15, Senior Biodiversity This group’s main aim was to enhance the image of their school by renovating the green areas and interior courtyards. They also want to assist in creating a sense of community and ownership among the students, increase awareness of plants, trees, fruit and vegetables and […]

Membership

Become an ECO-UNESCO member today! Click to download a membership form. Why be an ECO-UNESCO Member? Membership of ECO-UNESCO means: Free copy of Your Environment, Your Choice CD-ROM Free access to ECO-UNESCO youth events Discount on workshops Discount on training programme And much more… ECO-UNESCO members are people who… Are interested in the environment, education […]

What is Biodiversity

Biodiversity is the variation of life forms within a given ecosystem, biome, or for the entire Earth. Biodiversity is often used as a measure of the health of biological systems. The biodiversity found on Earth today consists of many millions of distinct biological species, which is the product of nearly 3.5 billion years of evolution. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]