Clean Coasts Officer for Sligo, Olivia, will be attending Sligo IT marketing Students' Upcycling workshop today giving people to opportunity to learn more about how to protect Ireland's beaches, seas and marine life as well as different upcycling techniques.
Clean Coasts Officer for Galway, Beckey-Finn, will be giving a talk to students studying Applied Freshwater and Marine Biology in GMIT a talk entitled 'Community Engagement and the Coastal Environment'. The talk will be followed later by a presentation from INFOMAR on the work they are carrying out mapping the sea floor around Ireland and is [...]
Clean Coasts officer for Sligo, Olivia, will be taking part in Sligo IT's Science Week. She will be giving a talk on marine litter and the impact it has on our beaches, seas and marine life. This will be followed by a screening of a special film on plastic and the marine environment. The event [...]
Clean Coasts will have a stand at Galway Atlantaquaria's Sunday Funday which will take place on Sunday 13th November from 12pm to 5pm. This family Funday is to celebrate the launch of Science Week on and is aimed at people of all ages. Pop by and learn more about marine litter, Think Before You Flush, #2minutebeachclean, etc [...]
Clean Coasts officer for Donegal, Olivia, will be giving a talk about protecting our beaches, seas and marine life at Killybegs College at 1pm on Wednesday 26th October. The session will also include a beach clean at a location nearby.
Clean Coasts Officer for Galway, Beckey-Finn will be attending this years main Convergence session in Galway. The session is entitled "Galway - Making The Transition to a Healthy, Low Carbon, Creative City". It will provide an opportunity for policy makers, civil society organisations, researchers, community practitioners and Galway citizens, to come together to maximise the potential of Galway to be a world [...]
Clean Coasts Officer, Brendan O'Kane, will be attending at the Dublin Bay UNESCO Biosphere Conference: Connecting People And Nature on Wednesday 26th October at the University College Dublin, O’Brien Centre for Science (East), George Moore Lecture Theatre. The conference will feature both international and local speakers who will give us insight into UNESCO's World Network of Biosphere [...]
Loughrea Tidy Towns are teaming up with St Raphael's Secondary School's TY studetns to carry out a clean-up of the lakeshore in Loughrea on Tuesday 27th September from 11:30am to 12:30pm. Clean Coasts Officer for Galway, Beckey-Finn, will be joining the clean-up event and will give a short talk on the work of Clean Coasts beforehand. Everyone [...]
We in Clean Coasts absolutely love the #2minutebeachclean initiative from Martin Dorey and with many sources of marine litter coming from land we thought it would be a great idea to expand this into the #2minutestreetclean! An Taisce's Environmental Education Unit has adopted the initiative unit wide and you can check out all you need [...]
Octopuses have hundreds of suckers, each one equipped with its own ganglion with thousands of neurons. These ‘mini-brains’ are interconnected, making for a widely distributed nervous system. That is why a severed octopus arm may crawl on its own and even pick up food. – Frans de Waal World Octopus Day is actually the kick-off [...]
