Bug hotel building workshops for kids in some libraries for anyone who might be interested

Sustainable Enniscorthy Green Plan members (current & potential) at an open meeting held on 26 April in the IFA centre, Enniscorthy to discuss & promote the Change X Green Plan (& lots of other Sustainable Enniscorthy projects).

Hope to install 2 water hippo this week! Will add selfie photo when they are installed. It says can save up to 3 litre per flush!

Green Plan activities summary sheet to date 23/4/2023

Hi all. This link has a summary of all our Green Plan activities to date. It’d be great to get a few more activities logged from everyone before our AGM on Wednesday 26 April.

Round trip to Dublin on the train yesterday saved 289km round trip in a car.

Wildflower area added to our communal greenspace in the estate!! Supervised by our friendly little robin. 10.5m2 seeded and cordoned off, can't wait to see what pops up!!

At the Cherryorchard Spring Clean yesterday we collected 7kg of cans and 5kg of plastic bottles (plus 184 glass bottles/jars) - lot of fly tipping in the undergrowth

Can everyone be sure to include themselves in their picture of their completed activity when posting to the feed? This will ensure we meet all the requirements set out by The Greenplan. And a great opportunity to show off all your lovely faces 😊

Two textile items recycled / repurposed ( 1 bed sheet reused as a car boot protector for mucky sports equipment & 1 cotton top cut into rags for boot polishing)

Home cleaning spray (3 parts water, 1 part vinegar, 2 teaspoons bicarbonate of soda, essence of choice e.,g. Peppermint)

Cleared 25m2 & planted Irish native wildflower seeds. Gardener’s World wouldn’t consider this “cleared”, but wildflowers have to rough it a bit right? So that’s another Biodiversity theme activity complete & a score of 10 points. PS the seeds are native Irish & from Faerly, which is run by Enniscorthy native James Byrne of Byrne’s Bookshop.

9 aluminium cans & 7 plastic bottles collected at today’s litter pick, washed, squashed & recycled. I won’t complain that the promenade loop was that clean we collected so little! (but it's not a huge help for our activity target - 140g plastic & 144g aluminium.)