End of the Bathing Season
2017-09-15 | National
15th September marks the end of the bathing season in Ireland. It is also the end of the Green Coast and Blue Flag Awards season. A great way to give back to these beaches is with a #2minutebeachclean or taking part in the Big Beach Clean!

Corporate Volunteering Day - Coca-Cola
2017-09-15 | Bull Island
Clean Coasts Officer, Aidan, will be hosting a Corporate Volunteering Day at Bull Island, Co. Dublin with employees of Coca-Cola.The day will include a clean-up as well as other biodiversity and team building activities. This will be done as part of our Corporate Volunteering initiative where we work with organisations who want to give back to the community.
If you are interested in this initiative please check out our page or contact us for more details.

Navan National Learning Network Beach Clean - Bettystown
2017-09-19 | Bettystown, Bettystown, Co. Meath, Ireland
Clean Coasts Officer for Meath, Aidan, will be doing a beach clean and other biodiversity-related activities with Navan’s National Learning Network at Bettystown Beach, Co. Meath on Tuesday, 19th September.

Surf Force Conference 2017
2017-09-22 | Great Northern Hotel, Bundoran, Co. Donegal, Ireland
Clean Coasts Officer for Donegal, Beckey-Finn, will be speaking at Salesforce’s Surf Force conference in Bundoran, Co. Donegal on Friday 22nd September. She will also take part in a panel discussion on giving back. The attendees to Surf Force will also take part in a beach clean on Saturday to give back to the coast they are enjoying during the conference.
More details: surfforce.co

Think Before You Flush at Tramore Maritime Festival
2017-09-30 | Tramore, Tramore, Co. Waterford, Ireland
Clean Coasts Officer for Waterford, Camilla, will be running a Think Before You Flush information stand in conjunction with Tramore Maritime Festival. Clean Coasts will also be taking part in a community beach clean on the main strand with Tramore Eco Group, Litter Free Waterford, Tramore Tidy Towns and T-Bay Café & Eco Centre.

Think Before You Flush Accommodation Day
2017-10-01 | Tramore, Tramore, Co. Waterford, Ireland
Clean Coasts Officer for Waterford, Camilla, will be in Tramore on 1st October notifying and providing information packs to hotels, B&B’s, businesses and caravan parks etc. in Tramore of the Think Before You Flush campaign

Our Ocean Conference 2017
2017-10-05 - 2017-10-06 | Malta, Malta
Our Coastal Communities Manager, Sinead, will be representing Clean Coasts at the Our Ocean Conference in Malta which runs from the 5th to 6th October. See ourocean2017.org for all the details as well as videos from the conference.
Over 3 billion people depend directly on our seas for their livelihoods. But in reality, all of us depend on the ocean: for our water, our food, our climate and our air.
Seas and oceans enrich our identity, ensure our wellbeing and sustain a large part of the economy.
Human action has left our ocean heavily affected by pollution, overexploitation, coastal degradation and global warming. This has severe consequences for all.
A new vision is needed, along with strong and action-oriented commitments.
Since 2014, Our Ocean conferences, have invited world leaders to look forward and respond, delivering high-level commitments and transforming the challenges ahead into an opportunity for cooperation, innovation and entrepreneurship. As in previous years, the 2017 edition “An Ocean for Life”, will be upon invitation only. It will be hosted by the European Union in Malta, at the heart of the Mediterranean.

BITC Biovidersity Workshop
2017-10-05 10:00 - 13:00 UTC
Clean Coasts Officer, Aidan, will be at the BITC biodiversity workshop – RTE buildings from 12-1pm at our Clean Coasts stand. He will be available to talk about all aspects of the Clean Coasts programme including Corporate Volunteering, #2minutebeachclean and much more.

Think Before You Flush at Zeminar
2017-10-10 | RDS, Dublin
Think Before You Flush will have a stand at the Zeminar conference in the RDS in Dublin. Zeminar is a social enterprise created to bring all those invested in the development and well-being of young people in Ireland to one place. We hope to engage and create awareness about the campaign amongst Generation Z. Find more about Zeminar at https://www.zeminar.ie/about/

Corporate Volunteering Day - Symantec
2017-10-12 | Bray, Bray, Co. Wicklow, Ireland
Clean Coasts Officer for Wicklow, Camilla, will be hosting a Corporate Volunteering Day in Bray with employees of Symantec.The day will include a clean-up as well as other biodiversity and team building activities. This will be done as part of our Corporate Volunteering initiative where we work with organisations who want to give back to the community.
If you are interested in this initiative please check out our page or contact us for more details.

Corporate Volunteering Day - Bulgari
2017-10-13 | Poolbeg, Poolbeg, Dublin, Co. Dublin, Ireland
Our Clean Coasts officer, Aidan, is carrying out a corporate volunteering day with Bulgari at Poolbeg, Co. Dublin. The day will include a clean-up as well as other biodiversity and team building activities.
If you are interested in our Corporate Volunteering initiative please check out our page or contact us for more details.

Corporate Volunteering Day - Salesforce
2017-10-13 | Dun Laoghaire, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin, Ireland
Our Clean Coasts officer for Dublin, Richard, is carrying out a corporate volunteering day with Salesforce at Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin. The day will include a clean-up as well as other biodiversity and team building activities.
If you are interested in our Corporate Volunteering initiative please check out our page or contact us for more details.

MINDSCAPE Summit
2017-10-14
Clean Coasts Officer for Clare, Caitríona, will be attending the MINDSCAPE Summit in Killaloe, Co. Clare on 14th October.
MINDSCAPE explores the fusion of mind and landscape, and how our emotions map to places. Our unique relationship to nature, our connectivity to forests, rivers, parks, trees and waterscapes will be discussed in terms of cutting-edge reserach and innovative practice. We address the opportunities that interacting with nature can have for health, well-being and increased environmental awareness, with lessons for policy-makers, practitioners and those engaged in the promotion of outdoor activity.
For more information: eventbrite.ie

A Playful City International Conference 2017
2017-10-17 09:00 - 16:00 | Dublin
Clean Coasts Officer for Dublin, Richard will be attending ‘A Playful City’ International Conference in Dublin on 17th October to talk to attendees about the work of the Clean Coasts Programme.
Tickets and info: www.eventbrite.ie

Design Meets Play – International Conference
Design Meets Play brought to you by A Playful City – an international conference on the 17th of October in Dublin City with a host of inspirational speakers and diverse mix of attendees of all ages to discuss the serious business of play!
Together, we will explore key themes of interest identified via the public consultations and then with diverse stakeholders, and at the hackathon in the evening, we will take the learnings shared during the day and from the consultations to ‘hack’ play and develop prototypes for temporary interventions in proposed sites in Dublin. These interventions will then be implemented over the next months, into 2018.
**Design Meets Play is accredited by the RIAI for 8 Structured CPD Points**

This event will take place on the 17th October in the Point Square. Tickets include tea/coffee as well as a lunch unlike any seen before, playfully imagined and created by Jennie Moran of Luncheonette.
**It will not be possible to buy food from our caterer on the day – separate food tickets are available for those whose tickets do not come with food (ie Kids / young adults)
**If you are interested in a special group ticket rate, please email us at playfulcity@gmail.com

Beach Clean and Talk with Headway Ireland
2017-10-18
Clean Coasts Officer for Dublin, Richard, will be doing a beach clean and talk with Headway Ireland today at Sandymount.
Headway Ireland provides services and support for people affected by Acquired Brain Injury in Ireland. They aim to maximize potential and quality of life.

Corporate Volunteering Day - Oracle
2017-10-19 | Bull Island
Our Clean Coasts officer for Dublin, Richard, is carrying out a corporate volunteering day with Oracle at Bull Island, Co. Dublin. The day will include a clean-up as well as other biodiversity and team building activities.
If you are interested in our Corporate Volunteering initiative please check out our page or contact us for more details.

Closing Date For Ocean Hero Nominations
2017-10-20 | National
Today is the closing date for nominations for the Ocean Hero Awards is 20th October 2017. If you would like to recognise an individual, Clean Coasts group, school, business or beach clean that made a difference to our coast please fill in the SurveyMonkey form or follow this link: surveymonkey.com/r/Ocean-Heroes-2017.
Nominations are for the following categories:

Group of the Year
Individual of the Year
School of the Year
Business of the Year
Idea of the Year
Beach Clean of the Year

For more information see our Ocean Heroes webpage.

Royal College of Surgeons Green Week
2017-10-20 12:00 - 15:00 | Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin, Co. Dublin, Ireland
Clean Coasts Officer for Dublin, Richard, will be at the Royal College of Surgeons today with a stand to provide information on the work we do to protect our beaches, seas and marine life.

Save The Waves Film
2017-10-20 19:00 - 21:00
Clean Coasts Officer for Dublin, Richard, will be attending the screening of Save The Waves Film at Patagonia Ireland this evening.

Beach Clean - Bull Island
2017-10-21 11:00 - 13:00 | Bull Island
Clean Coasts Officer for Dublin, Richard, will be taking part in the community cleanup at Bull Island today from 11 am to 1 pm.

Marram Grass Planting - Inch Beach, Co. Kerry
2017-10-22 11:00 - 13:00 | Inch Beach, Inch Beach, Inch Beach, Co. Kerry, Ireland
Clean Coasts Officer for Kerry, Susan, will be carrying out a marram grass planting workshop with local Scouts group at Inch Beach on Sunday, 22nd October at 11 am. The planting efforts of the last few months are really starting to show and the grass is taking well in the area. This will be the last planting exercise until Spring.

TBYF Workshop For Schools
2017-10-25
Clean Coasts Officer, Richard, will be carrying out a Think Before You Flush workshop at Oxmantown National School, Birr, Co. Offaly on Wednesday 25th October. This is part of our Think Before You Flush campaign. See more details here: thinkbeforeyouflush.org.

Corporate Volunteering Day - SAP
2017-10-26 | Bray, Bray, Co. Wicklow, Ireland
Clean Coasts Officer for Wicklow, Camilla, will be hosting a Corporate Volunteering Day at Bray, Co. Wicklow with employees of SAP.The day will include a clean-up as well as other biodiversity and team building activities. This will be done as part of our Corporate Volunteering initiative where we work with organisations who want to give back to the community.
If you are interested in this initiative please check out our page or contact us for more details.

Green-Schools Marine Environment Forum - Cork
2017-10-26 10:00 - 14:00 | Lifetime Lab, Old Cork Waterworks, Cork, Co. Cork, Ireland
Clean Coasts Officer for Cork, Susan, will be giving a talk at the Green-Schools Marine Environment Forum at Lifetime Lab, Cork on Thursday 26th October. The talk will cover marine litter and aspects of the Clean Coasts Programme.

Think Before You Flush at Ideal Homes Show
2017-10-27 - 2017-10-29
Clean Coasts will have a Think Before You Flush information stand at the Ideal Homes Show from Fri 27th – Sunday 29th October. Staff will be on hand to share information about the campaign and there will be demonstrations of how sewage waste can cause havoc in our pipes and marine environment. Find out more about the Ideal Homes Show here https://idealhome.ie/

Corporate Volunteering Day - Irish Water
2017-11-03 | Grattan Beach, Grattan Road, Galway, Co. Galway, Ireland
Clean Coasts Group, Galway Atlantaquaria, with Clean Coasts Officer, Richard, will be hosting a Corporate Volunteering Day at Salthill, Galway with employees of Irish Water.The day will include a clean-up as well as other biodiversity and team building activities. This will be done as part of our Corporate Volunteering initiative where we work with organisations who want to give back to the community.
If you are interested in this initiative please check out our page or contact us for more details.

Collaboration with IT Sligo
2017-11-06 | IT Sligo, Sligo, Ireland
Clean Coasts Officer for Sligo, Olivia, will meet with marketing students to discuss our brand.

Wicklow Marine Litter Conference for Secondary Schools
2017-11-07 | Arklow Bay Hotel, Arklow, Co. Wicklow, Ireland
Camilla speaking at a conference about how students can be part of the solution to tackling marine litter through responsible consumption, community engagement and social media campaigns such as ‘2 minute Beach Clean’.
This is a Marine Litter seminar for secondary schools in Arklow which will be held on the 7th of November in the Arklow Bay Hotel in Arklow. We have 140 students booked in from four secondary schools most of whom will be transition year schools. The schools involved are St. Mary’s College, Arklow CBS, Youthreach and Gaelcholaiste na Mara. All will do a beach clean in October before the seminar, two schools on Enereilly beach, one on Arklow South beach and one on Clogga beach. Through the three speakers I hope we will be able to show students the impact of litter and dumping on the marine environment, the work being done through PURE to tackle the problem across the county including the use of CCTV to catch perpetrators and with Clean Coasts how students themselves can engage actively in solving the problem with activities such as a two minute beach clean, the micro bead campaign and the Think before you flush campaign.

TBYF Workshop For Schools
2017-11-08
Clean Coasts Officer for Meath, Aidan, will be carrying out a Think Before You Flush workshop at Scoil Oilibhéir Naofa, Bettystown on Wednesday 8th November. This is part of our Think Before You Flush campaign. See more details here: thinkbeforeyouflush.org

Patricia Oliver Talk - Trinity College
2017-11-08 18:00 - 19:30 | Emmet Theatre, Arts Block, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
Patricia Oliver will be making her Doctorial presentation at Trinity College on WEDNESDAY 8TH NOVEMBER at 6 pm in the Emmet Theatre in the Arts Block.
TITLE OF TALK: FLAGGING THE FUTURE CONTENT:
“Looking back so as to move forward” is how Patricia Oliver approaches the story of the setting up of the Environmental Education Unit of An Taisce, its national and international programmes and, in particular, the genesis of “Green Schools”. With an offer of funding of £ 1000 from a local authority nearly twenty years ago, she traces the Green Schools programme from its first introduction to Irish teachers and the set-backs and triumphs which led to the astonishing success story it is today. She salutes the people who helped along the way and records its growth from primary to secondary schools and then the huge leap to “Green Campus” and the exciting initiatives being pioneered by Irish third level institutions today. She asks what new challenges lie ahead and what tools today’s students have in their armoury to help overcome them. Patricia Oliver Former journalist and publisher
Patricia Oliver is the Founder and from 2000 was the full-time Director of An Taisce’s Environmental Education Unit, now the largest and most successful environmental education organisation in the country and one of the most successful internationally. Her links with Trinity go back to the 1990s when as Chairwoman of An Taisce she took over the FEE Blue Flag programme initiated in Ireland by Karen Dubsky of Coastwatch and became the Irish representative of FEE (Foundation for Environmental Education) later serving as its Treasurer. She co-ordinated FEE schemes for Ireland and grew them professionally to become models for Europe, while maintaining the links with Trinity and serving on many other environmental and educational organisations. Through the Green Schools Programme, she has had a transforming effect on hundreds of thousands of Irish children. Her presentation of the Irish Green-Schools Programme at the 12th Commission on Sustainable Development at the United Nations in 2004 was acknowledged as the “Best of Best Practice”.
