The National Waste Prevention Programme has organised a workshop on Community Based Social Marketing for all those involved in NWPP programmes and projects and other proponents of sustainability in Ireland. This was held in the GHA gold award winner St. Helen’s Radisson Hotel Stillorgan, Dublin on October 18th and 19th, 2010.
The two day workshop was presented by a world leader in this field, the Canadian, Dr. Doug McKenzie-Mohr. For over twenty years Dr McKenzie-Mohr, an environmental psychologist, has been incorporating and delivery of community programs. He is the founder of community-based social marketing — an approach to delivering environmental behavioural change programs that is used throughout the world.
The workshop was very well attended by many of the sustainability practitioners in Ireland from a wide spread of programmes, organizations and affiliations such as: Local Authority Prevention Network; Local Authority Environmental Awareness Officers; Green Business Programme; €concertive; Green Hospitality Programme; An Taisce; Packaging Prevention Programme; Green Healthcare Programme; Environmental Protection Agency – Resource Use Unit; Comhar – Sustainable Development Council; Dingle Corca Dhuibhne Glas Project; Clean Technology Centre; Department of Environment Heritage & Local Government; Enterprise Ireland; rx3 – rethink, recycle, remake; Freetrade Ireland website; Green Communities Network; Ballynagran Zero Carbon Community Project; Cleaner Greener Production Programme et alia.
To learn more about Community Based Social Marketing click here
To see some photos from the event click here to go to our Flickr Site.
Claire Kelly & Dr Mary Stack of Cork County Council [Local Authority Waste Prevention Network] have challenged all stallholders at the Midleton Food & Drink Festival [September 11th] to become a Green Member and implement environmentally sustainable practices at their stalls.
Those that agreedwere rewarded with a Green Member Flag which will be on display on the day.
This year the Midleton Food & Drink Festival Committee worked closely with the Waste Prevention Unit of Cork County Council to Green the Festival. It was achieved through the participation of all stakeholders, including event organisers, volunteers, stallholders and visitors.
To learn more about the Greening of Midleton Food and Drink Festival click here
To hear a podcast of a radio advert for the Festival Greening click here
The Local Authority Prevention Network conference was held in Croke Park on Thursday 3 June 2010 and was a great success with a very high attendance. To learn more about the conference, speakers, etc. click here. To see the presentations online and download PDFs of the slides click here.
Here are some thumbnail photos from the event. Click on each photo to see a larger version. To see all the conference photos (and other LAPN photos) and for any high resolution downloads go to the LAPN Flickr Site here.
Cavan is gearing up for Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann 2010 which will be the first Green Fleadh – ‘An Fleadh Ghlais’.
As part of its work on the Green Fleadh, Cavan County Council is undertaking several initiatives and working with pubs and restaurants in Cavan Town and environs, providing them with:
- An Enviromental Policy
- Advice about waste, energy & water
- An assessment of the premises
- The identification of prevention measures
- Advice about forming a GreenTeam & Action Plan
- A documentation folder for the project
- A Green Fleadh window sticker for their premises, and
- Advice about joining an Eco-Label system etc
So far the uptake has been 99%.
Cavan County Council took out an advertisement in local media inviting businesses to enter into the Fleadh Ghlas which has been very successful and has provided two workshops this year for the hospitality sector. It is also incorporating Fair Trade into the programme and Cavan Town Council is applying for Town Fair Trade Status. Most of the caterers are already serving Fair Trade coffee but had not put up the relevant logo signage or put it on the menu.
Publicans in the town are examining a range of options about using the environmentally friendly ‘Fleadh Cup’ for outdoor drinking.
Local Hotels have become Members and are working on the Green Hospitality Programme.
Cavan County Council has invited a list of 15 large businesses & industry to take part in the Green Fleadh by entering into the Green Business Programme.
Posters have been produced to summarise the individual projects of the Local Authority Prevention Demonstration (LAPD) and Local Authority Prevention Network (LAPN) programmes. Click on the images to see the full posters and more information:
The following posters also summarise the whole programme – click on the images to learn more:
The Local Authority Prevention Network conference will be held in Croke Park on Thursday 3 June 2010.
The EPA has organised a conference to inform local authority managers and others about the range of waste prevention and resource efficiency programmes being carried out by local authorities as part of the National Waste Prevention Programme.
All relevant local authority staff are encouraged to attend, in particular those interested in hearing of the savings that can be delivered through waste prevention and resource efficiency programmes and on the contribution that such programmes can make to greening the economy and the economic recovery in general, in addition to meeting various environmental policy objectives and commitments.
Over the course of the day there will be a comprehensive exhibition featuring results and case studies from all the LAPN participants and some of the other prevention partners in the National Waste Prevention Programme.
There is no charge to attend this event.
Contact m.lambert@epa.ie by Wednesday 26th May should you wish to attend the meeting. A welcome dinner is planned for the night before at the Croke Park Hotel, offering an informal networking opportunity. Please indicate if you will be attending this dinner or if you will be attending the meeting only. Please also let us know if you have any special dietary requirements.
Delegates should make their own accommodation arrangements – a special overnight B&B rate of €95 has been negotiated with the Croke Park Hotel for conference delegates.
Click here to see full Conference Details
Click here to see some background material on the Local Authority Prevention Network
Cork Institute of Technology, with support from the Clean Technology Centre, hosted a food waste reduction fair on November 26 – 28th, 2009. This event was part of the European Week of Waste Reduction (EWWR) and it also served to
act as an awareness raising event in CIT under the Green Campus CIT EPA CGPP project.
As part of the fair:
- CIT Canteen offered green lunch options with produce sourced locally
- There was an exhibition in the Nexus with information stands and composting demonstrations – waste reduction tips and recipes.
- A low waste meal prepared by the Hospitality Management students under Seamus Forde in the Tourism and Hospitality restaurant.
- A food waste ebooklet was launched at this meal.
- Kevin Dundon, Celebrity Chef, gave a a cookery demonstration in the Tourism and Hospitality demonstration kitchen
From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view.
The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns.
The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It’ll teach you something, it’ll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever.
Click here to go to the Story of Stuff.
The European Week for Waste Reduction (EWWR) is a 3 year project supported by the Life+ Programme of the European Commission until 2011. In 2009, the Week will take place from the 21 to the 29 November 2009.
In Ireland, the EPA National Waste Prevention Programme (NWPP) is the national organiser for EWWR. Invitations have been issued to prevention partners to get involved and over 30 events are scheduled by 15 organisations.
Projects Proposed in the Republic of Ireland
Purpose of EWWR
- To raise awareness about waste reduction strategies and about the policies of the European Union and its Member States on this subject
- To promote sustainable waste reduction actions across Europe
- To highlight the work accomplished by various actors, through concrete examples of waste reduction
- To encourage changes in the behaviour of Europeans (consumption, production) in everyday life.
Who is EWWR for?
For European citizens who participate in actions set up by Project Developers during the Week and learn about the kind of waste reduction habits that they can take up in everyday life.
These EWWR Organisers act as coordinators of the Week in the area covered by their authority, thereby ensuring the registration and validation of actions proposed by various Project Developers.
For “Project Developers” interested in carrying out awareness raising actions on the subject of waste prevention during the Week, with the aim of informing the greatest possible number of citizens. These Project Developers register their proposals for EWWR actions through the national, regional or local Organiser covering their area.
For those public authorities across Europe that have competence in the field of waste prevention that responded to a Call for Interest launched by the official partners of the project.
EPA National Waste Prevention Programme is the national organiser for EWWR in Ireland who will update this webpage from time to time. Confirmed events to take place during the week will be posted here. Partner organisations have been invited to participate including those implementing the NWPP, Green Homes, Green Business, Green Hospitality, Green Schools, Packaging Prevention and Food Waste Prevention/Home Composting programmes.
The 1st LAPN Plenary Meeting will take place on Wednesday 2 December 2009 at Mount Wolseley Hotel, Tullow, Co. Carlow
The theme of this meeting is: “Spreading the Word”
Dr. Gerry Byrne of the EPA wil welcome the delegates and provide a brief update on the National Waste Prevention Programme – prevention partners, EWWR, etc.
The meeting will also be addressed by EPA’s Jonathan Derham, who will speak about Waste Prevention and the new Waste Framework Directive
There will also be presentations by Dermot Cunningham on the LAPN, Kara Flannery on greenbusiness.ie and local authority LAPD personnel who will speak about their projects.
The Plenary is open to Local Authority Staff. If you wish to attend, contact Odile le Bolloch of the EPA. email: o.lebolloch@epa.ie or tel.: 053-9160600
