Patricia Oliver Talk - Trinity College
2017-11-08 18:00 - 19:30 UTC | 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”.

Corporate Volunteering Day - Oracle
2017-11-09 | Bull Island
Clean Coasts Officer for Dublin, Richard, will be hosting a Corporate Volunteering Day at Bull Island, Co. Dublin with employees of Oracle.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 - Salesforce
2017-11-10 | 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 Salesforce.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.

Think Before You Flush at Transition Kerry Climate Event
2017-11-11 09:30 - 16:00 | Manor West Hotel, Tralee, Co. Kerry, Ireland
Clean Coasts will be attending the Transition Kerry Climate event today to talk about all things Think Before You Flush. You can view the press release here.

Corporate Volunteering Day - DocuSign
2017-11-15 | 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 DocuSign.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.

Ocean Talks and Ocean Hero Awards
2017-11-21 | Dublin
We are delighted to be holding the Clean Coasts Ocean Talks & Ocean Hero Awards on 21st November at the Royal College of Physicians.
Ocean Talks will kick off proceedings with speakers from a diversity of backgrounds including: research, documentary making, business and community leaders and professional surfing, discussing a range of topic relating to marine litter and our Irish coastline.
This will be followed by the Ocean Hero Awards which recognise the invaluable contribution made by Clean Coasts volunteers.
Please RSVP by email cleancoasts@eeu.antaisce.org or by phone on 01-4002210.
If you have any queries regarding these awards please do not hesitate to contact the Clean Coasts team.

Marine Environment Workshop
2017-11-28
Clean Coasts Officer for Meath, Aidan, will be carrying out a marine environment workshop at Gilson National School on Tuesday 28th November. The workshop will including a variety of topics covering biodiversity, marine litter, people and the coast, etc.

Green-Schools Water Forum
2017-11-29 | Dublin
Clean Coasts Officer, Richard will be taking part in Green-Schools Water Forum today in Dublin by giving a presentation on protecting Ireland’s beaches, seas and marine life.

Our Coasts Our Voices at Other Voices, Co. Kerry
2017-12-02 | Ventry Community Centre, Ventry, Co. Kerry, Ireland
As part of Other Voices event, Clean Coasts programme shall host a family day at Ventry Community Centre, which is 10 minutes drive from Dingle where Other Voices is located.
The day will be a marine environment education day with a mixture of stands and workshops throughout the day.
Clean Coasts programme engages with community groups, business and schools encouraging and facilitating beach clean and marine education. Currently, we have over 600 Clean Coasts groups establish nationwide and run 3 national campaigns; #2minutebeachclean, Beat the Microbead and Think Before You Flush.
Clean Coasts has invited several partners and community members to join in the delivering of the event, these partners include BIM, Recreate, Explorers, Marei and Dingle Aquarium.

Title – Our Coasts, Our Voices
This title is suggested to link Clean Coasts and Other Voices – the idea of the event is to provide coastal education, community and individual engagement and celebration of our coast on the backdrop of the Other Voices event which would be clear from the title.The script from Clean Coasts Logo would be used for ‘Our Coasts’ and the script from ‘Other Voices’ would be used for ‘Our Voices’
Stand and Workshops
Stands:

Clean Coasts stand – which will inform on the Clean Coasts programme and provide information on marine litter. This stand will have an identification game.
Think Before You Flush campaign – which will give information on the Think Before You Flush campaign and run interactive experiments to engage people with the message of the campaign.
SEAI schools workshop stand – which will provide information on Climate Change and run interactive experiments relating to energy, energy consumption and climate change
Love Your Coast Photography Winner Display – a display of winning images from South West Ireland
Clean Coasts Beach Display – #2minutebeachclean – Beach will be set up in order, which will be used for photographs, filming and some games can be played in this area as well.
Dingle Aquarium – Stand including displays of marine life
Explorers – Stand is too be confirmed
BIM – stand about fishing for litter project based in Dingle. BIM will also have some interactive displays and aims to have local fishermen help out at the stand.
Marei – stand providing information on microplastics and solutions to single-use plastic.

Attendees will be encouraged to wander around stalls as they will be given quiz/treasure hunt as they enter the hall and all those who complete treasure hunt will be entered into a draw for small prizes.
Workshops:

11.30 – 12.00: Art workshop with ReCreate
11.30 – 12.00: Squid dissection with Dingle Oceanworld/MaraBeo
12.15 – 12.45: Drumming workshop (with a difference!)
13.00 – 13.30: Art workshop with ReCreate
13.00 – 13.30: Squid dissection with Dingle Dingle Oceanworld/MaraBeo
14.00 – 15.00: Underwater soundscape with Vincent Hyland
15.00 – 16.00: Cnuasach Trá with Billy Mag Fhloinn (exploring the coastal environment through story, song, art and drama)

Green-Schools Marine Forum
2017-12-05 - 2017-12-06
Clean Coasts Will be taking part in Green-Schools marine forum on Tuesday and Wednesday, 5th and 6th December. For more information on Green-Schools, please visit their website: greenschoolsireland.org.

Environmental Education Unit's Winter Meeting
2017-12-12 - 2017-12-13
An Taisce’s Environmental Education Unit will meet today and tomorrow in Athlone for our winter meeting. This will include updates on programmes such as Clean Coasts, Green-Schools, LEAF, Green Home, Green-Campus, etc. as well as workshops on current environmental issues.

Christmas
2017-12-25
We wish everyone a very happy Christmas!

New Year's Day
2018-01-01
We want to wish everyone a very happy New Year and we hope that you can make protecting Ireland’s beaches, seas and marine life part of your New Year resolutions!

School Clean Up
2018-01-17 | Dublin
Clean Coasts Officer for Dublin will be doing a beach clean with students from Newpark Comprehensive School. It is a great opportunity for students to give back to their local community as well as learn more about the coastal environment.

Northwest Coastal Cleanups at Pocket Film Festival - Bundoran, Co. Donegal
2018-01-21 | Eclipse Cinemas, Station Road, Bundoran, Co. Donegal, Ireland
Our Ocean Hero Clean Coasts Group Northwest Coastal Cleanups will have a stand at the Pocket Film Festival, Eclipse Cinemas Bundoran on Sunday 21st January. They will have information on their work as well as that of the Clean Coasts programme.
Seamus McGoldrick of our group, iSurf Ireland, and Murfs Surf School are organising a beach clean with a local refugee group. This will take place before the festival and they will carry out an art project that will be displayed at the cinema to highlight the issue of marine litter.

Outsider Awards - Dublin
2018-01-24
Clean Coasts will be attending the Outsider Awards night on Wednesday 24th January. The winner of the Leave No Trace and Clean Coasts Most Devoted to the Environment Award will be announced on the night. Check out all the amazing nominations here: outsider.ie/outsider-awards/most-devoted-environment/.

DLR Eco Conference
2018-01-24 | County Hall, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin, Ireland
Clean Coasts Officer, Richard, will be attending and speaking at the Annual Eco Conference for secondary schools in the Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council area. It is taking place in the County Hall in Dun Laoghaire from 22nd to 26th January.

Coastal Environment Talks - Killybegs, LYIT
2018-01-31 | Killybegs Campus of LYIT, LYIT Killybegs Campus, Killybegs, Co. Donegal, Ireland
Clean Coasts Officer for Donegal, Beckey-Finn, has been invited to co-facilitate, with Dr Easkey Britton a coastal environment day at Killybegs Campus of Letterkenny IT. The day will be aimed at students studying to become local and regional guides. Beckey-Finn will present the work carried out by Clean Coasts, topics the students can talk about to tourists, activities that can be integrated into their work which will help the environment.

International Straw Free Day
2018-02-03 | International
Say no to plastic straws this February 3rd!

Individuals: Request ‘no straw please’ in your drink.
Businesses: Go strawless for a day, and see the big difference one day alone makes.

They won’t be missed!

Greystones Tidy Towns - Pre-Spring Clean-up
2018-02-10 10:00 - 12:00 | Greystones, Greystones, Co. Wicklow, Ireland
Clean Coasts Officer, Camilla, will be taking part in Greystones Tidy Towns Pre-Spring Clean-up today. They will meet at 10 am at South Beach Car Park – Weather Permitting!
Follow the Facebook event for updates: https://www.facebook.com/events/604846623181103/

Earth Hour 2018
2018-02-13 08:00 - 17:00 | International

Irish Sailing Cruising Conference
2018-02-17 | Dublin
Clean Coasts will be talking at the annual Irish Sailing Cruising Conference about our programme and also, what sailors can do to help protect our beaches, seas and marine life.
The third Irish Sailing CruisingConference 2018 returns to Dublin on 17 February 2018, at the Clayton Hotel in Leopardstown, just off the M50 in South County Dublin.
The conference is a popular event on the sailing calendar for cruising sailors to swap stories and catch up on new ideas before they plan their destinations for the summer and beyond.
The carefully chosen talks for 2018 include:
As previously reported by Afloat.ie, The Adventures of Rogue Trader with sailors Claire McCluskey and Nick Russel telling us about their journey to buying, restoring and registering a 56ft wooden ketch and then venture off sailing west in the ARC in the Autumn and returning the following year.
An Taisce will be talking about their Clean Coasts programme and we take a look at what sailors can do to make a difference.
The Wooden Boat Project with Evie Conway and her one woman restoration of Saoirse, her beloved 26ft mahogany folk boat
The Irish Marine Weather Buoy Network will be explained and how the Marine Institute meets the needs of mariners, forecasters and researchers with Aodhan FitzGerald, Research Vessel Manager, Marine Institute
Managing Offshore Storms demonstrated by experienced offshore sailor and author Alex Blackwell
New Developments in Infrastructure presented with navigator Norman Kean of ICC Publications
Fishing Gear Marking open discussion on the problems and ideas for solutions with Norman Kean
To give an opportunity for small group discussions, workshop and discussion stations are organised with the speakers and marine professionals, while Teas and Coffees are served.
‘Thanks to Sponsors Union Chandlery and support of Cruising Association of Ireland we can keep our entry fee down to a reasonable rate. Irish Sailing Members €25 and Non Members €30, includes a Carvery Lunch at the Clayton, Irish Sailing’s Gail McAllister told Afloat.ie
Tickets are here

Corporate Volunteering Day - Brendan Vacations
2018-02-20 | 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 Brendan Vacations. 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 Expo 2018
2018-02-22 | RDS, Dublin
The Green-Schools Expo is back! Join us in the Industries Hall of the RDS on Thursday, February 22nd 2018 for another jam-packed event.
The 2018 Expo will have

Exhibits from Ireland’s top Green-Schools (think you could be one of them? Check out the information below and download an application form!)
Free admission – register for tickets below
Six themed zones jam packed with activities and information for all ages
Workshop areas
Our bigger, better Eco Talks Arena
and much more!

Sutton Presentation
2018-02-26 | Dublin
Clean Coasts Officer, Richard, will be giving a presentation on Sutton at St. Fintan’s High School today.

Marine Tourism Conference - Donegal
2018-03-08 09:30 - 15:45 | Shandon Hotel, Marble Hill, Portnablagh, Co. Donegal, Ireland
Clean Coasts Officer for Donegal, Beckey-Finn, will be one of the speakers at this year’s Marin Tourism Conference in Donegal. It will take place of 8th March at the Shandon Hotel in Marble Hill, Portnablagh. The theme of this conference is ‘Connecting our Coastline – The Future of Sustainable Coastal Tourism’.

The Riptide Movement Coast to Coast Irish Tour 2018 Official Launch Night
2018-03-09 19:30 - 21:30 | Number Twenty Two, 22 Anne St S, Dublin, Ireland
The Riptide Movement will be undertaking a Coast to Coast Tour of Ireland over Summer 2018. The tour will involve the band performing their inimitable full live show at a number of coastal venues around the island of Ireland, while also spreading the messages promoted by Clean Coasts Ireland that our beaches, coastlines, rivers, city / town streets and paths need to be kept litter and plastic free in order to save our oceans from becoming even more polluted by the unsustainable levels of plastic waste which is finding its’ way into our seas.
This special show at Twenty Two Dublin in association with Clean Coasts Ireland marks the launch night show for the tour. Early booking advised.

Beach Clean - Meath
2018-03-10 10:00 - 12:00 | Bettystown/Laytown/Mornington, Bettystown/Laytown/Mornington, Co. Meath, Ireland
Clean Coasts Officer for Meath, Aidan, will be taking part in a beach clean of Bettystown/Laytown/Mornington which will start at 10 am on Saturday 10th March.

World Water Day 2018
2018-03-22 | International

Sea swim as part of the First Fortnight Festivial
2020-01-11 11:00 - 13:00
Looking for an exhilarating way to plunge into the New Year and shake off the post-holiday blues and turkey sandwiches? Then how about a fun swim on Sandycove Beach!
Due to the enormous success and popularity in 2019, First Fortnight Festival, Clean Coasts in conjunction with Grown is hosting another Sea Swimming event which will take place on the 11th of January at 11am on Sandycove beach, just a 10 minute walk from the Dart Station.
Sea swimming can have a positive impact on our mental and physical health. Why not take this opportunity to reconnect with yourself and enjoy the views of our beautiful coastline.
Warm clothes are advised. We will be providing hot refreshments post-swim. Please bring your own cup as we want to try and make it a zero-waste event. If you do not want to swim, you are welcome to participate in a short beach clean and enjoy the good vibes.
This event is proudly supported by Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council.
