Game Changers

Game Changers: Claire Anne Tobin is on a mission to make St Patrick’s Day an international day of climate action

Game Changers: Lisa Fingleton is using her art to get to the heart of the debate over land use and farming

Game Changers: Knowing how to save seed means you only have to buy it once to have enough to save and share every year

The more we walk the less burden we place on the planet, our creaking health service and our joints

Game Changers: As a cyclist, nothing beats a good pair of rain trousers. These are the best I’ve found

Game Changers: Connecting with the living world is good for body and mind

‘I don’t do any of the things you write about,’ the man told me, chuckling. We have to move from inertia to action

Game Changers: Wood-burning stoves can be a source of indoor and outdoor air pollution

Game Changers: Best books, products, cards and other sustainable gifts from Irish producers

Game Changers: The pandemic inspired us to make new connections to places we might have never discovered

Game Changers: Ciara Heuston swapped a career with pharmaceutical giant Pfizer to become a vertical farmer

Game Changers: Precision fermentation involves adding animal DNA to microbes and brewing them in vats to produce milk

Game Changers: There are more farmers over the age of 75 than under 35 in Ireland

Game Changers: Induction hobs are more efficient, cleaner and faster than cooking with gas

Game Changers: The writer and comedian has written a book about the efforts we can make to be part of the solution to the climate crisis

Game Changers: Fashion is responsible for up to 10% of global carbon emissions,

Game Changers: Chef Colm Burke’s menus for the catering-friendly FoodCloud Kitchen are based on seasons and surpluses

Game Changers: Mary Bulfin takes people of all ages on guided foraging walks, helping them to connect with the surrounding landscape

Game Changers: Gilly and Brian Taylor have dug 13 ponds on their land, and are hosting a workshop on how to create your own

Game Changers: Demand for willow coffins and natural burying grounds is growing

Spend It Better: Sherkin islander Nuala Mahon’s beautiful art highlights the plastic waste washing up on its beaches

Spend it better: By using land differently, farmers can reduce the pollution of livestock farming

Spend It Better: Imaginative developments can also put sustainable life back into the hearts of Ireland’s towns

Spend It Better: The culture of make-use-and-toss needs to come to an end, and the ‘latte levy’ will only go so far

Spend It Better: The maintenance cut is going to require a different animal to a lawnmower

Spend It Better: Up to a million tonnes of carbon are stored by our hedgerows, between 2,000km and 6,000km of which are being lost each year

Spend It Better: Community-supported agriculture is a great way to get better food while rekindling consumers’ friendship with farmers

Spend It Better: The Repair Acts project is documenting the social history of repair, as well as holding workshops and events

Spend It Better: The paint costs €1.50 a litre, which pays for the costs of recycling it

Spend It Better: Galway ‘tree gang’ that planted nearly 3,000 trees last winter looking for more volunteers

Spend It Better: More something old and borrowed and less of the new can also make weddings more personal and memorable

Spend It Better: It feels like most of the shoulders being put to the wheel to fix broken systems are female

Spend It Better: Foresters and farmers to work together to plant and establish new native woodlands

Spend It Better: Community-based social enterprises offer an affordable alternative to multi-national shops and websites where most of us spend much of our money

Spend It Better: New website connects new generation of makers with consumers

Spend It Better: Improved facilities are promised, but in the meantime, the folding bike is a good solution

Spend It Better: Protein supplements are a huge driver of Ireland’s dairy intensification