Sustainable Skerries
Hamilton Hill

Charlie writes: We are pleased to hold our first ever Bumblebee Walk on the Hamilton Hill Estate where we have a whole new area of pollinator habitat.  Incorporated in the newly...

Planting for pollinators, planting apple trees, leaving the dandelions on our existing green spaces are all part of greening our town, but something else is happening underfoot … Hans Zomer draws...

Sustainable Skerries made a submission to the draft Climate Action Plan (see below). The acknowledgement stated: “All submissions will be reviewed by the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications, and...

Are you a member of a neighbourhood network? A WhatsApp group just for your road? A Facebook group for your estate? A residents’ association even? Yes? Great! And do you get...

Would you like your garden to be more nature-friendly? Are you wondering what plants to get, and how to manage them? For many years now, Charlie and Marion Heasman have been...

Those who joined Sustainable Skerries last Sunday for Leo Carroll’s talk on insects and biodiversity were in turn mesmerised, fascinated, at times a bit shocked and overall very happy that they...

By Sabine McKenna and Hans Zomer. March 2024 This is the first in a series of articles written for Skerries News, showcasing individual projects driven by committees of the Skerries Community...

Looking for ideas for a “Net- Zero Skerries” Committee member Hans Zomer recently wrote the following article for Skerries News.Please consider subscribing to Skerries News We strongly suggest subscribing to Skerries...

We would like to invite everyone to a talk by Hans Zomer of Global Action Plan on “Skerries and the Sustainable Development Goals – How together, we can make Skerries even...

Hans Zomer’s article on why the no-mow-people of Sustainable Skerries were actually out cutting the grass, and how to help the pollinators also appeared in the 11 November 2023 edition of...