We are very excited to bring you our first episode featuring the astounding work of our Climate Ambassadors! Daithí talks to Emily Kennedy and Hilda O'Grady about the work they carried out during their time on the Climate Ambassador programme in 2023.         

Emily won an outstanding achievement award in 2023 for her work-focused initiatives, which included speaking at the Mary Robinson Climate Conference, connecting her colleagues to nature through facilitating work visits to beehives, and organising swap shops and repair workshops at her workplace in Price Waterhouse Cooper. Emily gives some very credible and actionable steps for achieving gender equality in work.        

Hilda also won an outstanding achievement award for her community-focused work, consisting of turbo-charging her Tidy Towns group in Kinvara to focus predominantly on Climate and Biodiversity, planting over 9,000 trees with the Kinvara-Ballinderreen Tree Gang, and working on various other local issues such as facilitating zero waste options at Farmers Market. Hilda provides wise and practical advice for sustaining successful working relationships in a community setting.

Emily’s links:

Re-Jingled | Dublin | Facebook

https://longgardenbees.ie/

Climate Action Venn Diagrams — Ayana Elizabeth Johnson

The sustainable Life School

Hilda’s links:

https://kinvara.ie/kinvara-tidy-towns/

ÉireComposites (eirecomposites.com)

http://kbtreegang.com/

Miyawaki method shows dense Irish forest can grow rapidly (rte.ie)