Last week the EPA released their report, Water Quality in Ireland 2010 - 2015 (You can read the full report here) and the results are disappointingly average. Our most polluted waters have improved, waters with "bad status" have reduced in numbers from 19 to just 6, which is great, there's also a major downside. The number [...]
The Irish Citizen's Assembly on Climate Change is open for public submissions until tomorrow evening, and there has already been a huge number of submissions posted. Details of how to make a submission and to view other submissions can be seen on the Citizen's Assembly Website. The Citizen's Assembly is not just looking for your opinion [...]
For centuries, furniture has been brown, with the exception of a few beautiful pieces that were probably kept in the "good room" in the house, they were fairly boring, dark and functional. This kind of furniture was passed from one generation to the next, reused and reloved by a new generation for as long as [...]
Ireland's Waste Reduction Bill has been hitting the headlines this week, and it makes for some interesting media coverage and debates. The Bill includes a deposit and return scheme, and in general the Dail is in favour of the bill, but there is much debate on how much this will cost the tax payer for [...]
We are at peak wedding season, and if your postman has delivered a little envelope with an invitation to a great day out you're probably looking forward to a wedding! Yay! A quick google search gives loads of ideas for brides and grooms planning a wedding, but there's not so much out there for wedding [...]
There is a strong anti-waste message building internationally around straws. Most of us just think of straws as something fun in a kids drink, an easy way to sip a cold drink from the take-away, or a way of not smudging our lipstick on a night out, but there's a sinister side to straws. At [...]
Today, I finally got my hands on Padraic Fogarty's new book "Whittled Away: Ireland's Vanishing Nature". I'm not one for dwelling on the sad environmental stories but I think this is a really important read. Padraic is an ecologist and is the current campaigns officer of the Irish Wildlife Trust, which puts him in a [...]
Zilch is a noun, meaning zero or nothing, and that is exactly what we are aiming for. When we are thinking about, talking about and protecting our environment so much of what we do is aiming for zero. We dream of zero litter on our streets, zero food waste in our bins, zero discharges to [...]
Here at GoZilch we aim to bring you the best environmentally friendly products available around the world. We are currently contacting the producers of the products we love, with the hope we can bring them to the GoZilch community through our webshop. The products we are looking for will help the users/owners get that bit [...]
