Sustainable Skerries

We are delighted to announce that the Jim Quigley Volunteers of the Year 2024 here in Skerries are Charlie and Marion Heasman! Below a short explanation about the award, one picture...

While we conduct biodiversity walks on a regular basis through the summer months, yesterday’s was perhaps the nicest yet. For one thing we had a beautiful warm, sunny day; so warm...

Skerries group praised for its climate actions, coming 7th in a nationwide climate competition. Recently, we took part in the Climate Heroes event. Under the stewardship of committee member Miriam Sweeney,...

Rows of chairs with people from behind and Sharon Keilthy speaking

In our series of blog posts about the 2023 Skerries Eco Festival, Sustainable Skerries committee member Evelyn Cottell sums up the first three of our nine wonderful Sunday Afternoon Talks ....

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...

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...