Media: Sustainable News

One million animal, plant species face extinction – UN

Updated / Monday, 6 May 2019 20:52

Earth's eight millions species of plants and animals are dying off at an accelerated rate

https://www.rte.ie/news/enviroment/2019/0506/1047749-un-environment/

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The library of things: could borrowing everything from drills to disco balls cut waste and save money?

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/apr/24/library-of-things-borrowing-scheme-conquer-world#img-2

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Irish Times

Fri, Apr 26, 2019, 06:00

Alys Fowler

Why you should turn your lawn into a meadow

Most lawns are biodiversity deserts, but there is a simple way to encourage nature – and you don’t even have to ditch the mower

Your lawn is already a wildflower meadow waiting to burst forth. Photograph: Jacky Parker/Moment/Getty

https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/homes-and-property/gardens/why-you-should-turn-your-lawn-into-a-meadow-1.3871419

Amazon to buy entire output from Donegal wind farm

April 9, 2019 in Uncategorized | Leave a comment (Edit)

This from RTE today: https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2019/0408/1041380-amazon-to-buy-entire-output-from-donegal-wind-farm/

When built the Meenbog wind farm will produce 91MW of power (Pic: Getty)