Irish Green Infrastructure

22/09/2020

Another use for a Green Roof!
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15/08/2020

This is what we were at this time last year, helping run Moira Speciality Food Fair Festival Weekend!
Great fun, people, weather food and plenty of hard work, what’s not to like? Can’t wait to do it all again someday 😎 @ Moira Demense

07/08/2020

ANOTHER WIN FOR BIODIVERSITY 👍🐝
Excited to be working with Trinity Staff on their response to the Biodiversity Crisis which will see 4 existing sedum roofs replaced with ‘Nature’ roofs!
Great end to the week💚😃

🌎 🐝 @ Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute

29/07/2020

SO HAPPY TO SEE THIS☘️
Trinity College has put Biodiversity in the front window at one of the busiest urban junctions on the island. These iconic lawns are being removed after 150 years due to a public vote and are being replaced with a native wildflower meadow. This is a powerful statement for BIODIVERSITY by Trinity and needs to be applauded
Next week we are meeting on site to discuss the rejuvenation of 3 small green roofs for BIODIVERSITY 🐝
‘Bualadh bos’ Trinity College 👏 Thanks for photos

🌎 🐝 @ Trinity College, Dublin

18/06/2020

OUR WARMING WORLD🌍
Pretty stark when illustrated like this 🔥 🔥
Represented is the annual average temperatures for Ireland over the last 100 years.
All countries need to integrate climate change measures into national policies, strategies and planning!
Image credit;
Professor Ed Hawkins (University of Reading)
https://showyourstripes.info

05/06/2020

‘Newsflash’
Ireland stakes claim for Worlds oldest working Green Roof - Newgrange- inner chamber still dry after 5,200 years☘️

02/06/2020

13/05/2020

- Celebrate World Green Roof Day 6th June 2020
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It’s coming soon so if anyone knows of any worthy examples or has any images of Irish Green Roofs, please let’s be having them ☘️
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01/05/2020

‘FAIRY FORT and WHITETHORNS’
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HAPPY MAY DAY - La Bealtaine, the beginning of Summer.
Entrance to Fairy Fort guarded by a ring of Whitethorns, the Bealtaine Tree. This Rath or ring fort is one of two on out home farm.
They are Ireland's most common field monument, circular enclosures usually made of earth,. There are more than 45,000 scattered throughout the country and they represent intense settlement from the early seventh century until the late ninth. Ringforts were used to protect cattle from the frequent raids on livestock.
For a rural population, the local ringfort was not a monument but an object more respected than revered as it, in many cases, symbolised fear of an unknown supernatural threat. The fairies were believed to reside within them. No God-fearing man or woman in their right mind would tamper with them. To destroy or build on one was to invite the wrath of spirits. The Whitethorn is called Sceach Gael in Irish but we also know it as the Fairy Tree for it is said to guard the entrance to the fairy realm and it is still considered bad luck to harm one. -

22/04/2020

Theme for Earth Day 2020 is climate action.
Our only home is Planet Earth so let’s all strive to respect and be gentler to it, we need it more than it needs us! Make every day Earth Day💚☘️
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20/03/2020

Hopeful words for these scary and very worrying times!
Practice social distancing, stay safe and look out for one another, we are all in this together ☘️💚

15/03/2020

May you all find your place of refuge from this storm, look out for one another and be safe 💚☘️