Spend it Better: How we can all help protect these beautiful birds

Wildacres in Co Wicklow shows how damage can be reversed in a relatively short time

A new year is like a new page, the perfect place to start doing things to benefit our planet

Spend It Better: In the face of climate catastrophe we need to look after ourselves

Spend It Better: Evocco and FoodCloud are new enterprises hoping to reduce food waste at home

Spend It Better: The aim? Just sit and let the surroundings provide sounds, smells and sights

Spend It Better: Thinking of a gift? Here are some that say, ‘I care about you and a habitable planet’

Spend It Better: Ease off on the central heating with a hot water bottle

Spend It Better: Dogs and cats could account for a quarter of farming’s emissions

Spend It Better: ‘Green exercise’ is better for your body and the planet

Dublin urban farm is growing mushrooms in coffee grounds, collected from coffee shops

Spend It Better: Rise of all-conquering SUV is story of runaway corporate greed by car companies

Inter-generational conversations on the climate crisis with Eamon Ryan, Dr Tara Shine, Dara McAnulty and others

Spend It Better: Irish labels and tailors are breathing life into our own clothes

Spend It Better: This season’s beautiful lanterns become next season’s junk pile

Spend It Better: These simple devices reduce waterway pollution and provide habitat

Spend It Better: Kiwi apples in Irish shops is a troubling sign of a wayward system

Irish shavers use about 20 million pressurised aerosol cans a year

Project seeking 1,000 citizen scientists aims to measure air pollution in the capital

Spend it Better: Insulation, insulation, insulation is the new mantra in housing

Looking at what you can do to fight climate change is easier than focusing on what you can’t

Spend it Better: Unlike real compost, peat moss contains no nutrients

If you’re on a camping trip or just shuddering at the thought of one here are some good ways to entertain yourself

Ger Whyte went exploring the Silvermines mountains and came back with 13 washing machines, all of them dumped off remote roads

A real democratic leveller for urban transport is the e-cargo bike

Trees can be the answer and Ireland has a pioneering study of livestock agroforestry

Rise of eco-building could yet make Dermot Bannon’s glass box extensions look dated

Spend It Better: A repairable phone is now an option

Instead of everyone buying tools to mostly lie redundant, why not just borrow as we go?

Spend It Better: This system makes food waste look as if someone tapped on an Instagram filter

Plastic is the basis of a lot of our domestic liquid holders – and that’s where we can use it better

Spend it Better: Regenerative farming can help on a small and a mass scale

Our solar panels heat almost all our water on sunny days. They connect us to the seasons

Why, as one arm of the State is getting out of peat, is another still planting tulips in it?

Spend It Better: This summer make time to walk a route you typically dash

Glossy fields of grass might look like lush rich countryside. To our bees they’re a food desert

Spend It Better: The All-Ireland Pollinator Plan advises doing nothing to our lawns this month

Staff at Bounce Back dismantle mattresses by hand and recycle individual components

90% of trainers end up in incineration or landfill where components can last 1,000 years 

Rónán O’Dálaigh has created a virtual space where the shops have the convenience of Amazon but no horrors

Spend it Better: A water butt to harvest rainwater can help keep our seas clean

In her new weekly column, Catherine Cleary looks at how we can use our spending power to look after the world, and each other

Shrove Tuesday: Use a good pan and have kitchen roll to hand, advises Catherine Cleary

Young Irish activists are fighting for change, inspired by fellow campaigners like Amika George

Knowing the moment is coming doesn’t make it easier when it rushes towards you

In the war against plastic, small battles can be won at the food and produce shelves

No more black salad mulch in the fridge drawer when you compost and grow your own

‘Long life and stability’ of threatened habitat inspired ecologist to write Wildwoods

For her last assignment, Catherine Cleary tries socially distant dining

The innovative ways in which restaurants are reaching customers under lockdown

Students who might have been on a J1 might be strawberry picking in Wexford instead

A hot school lunch idea has pivoted to a food service for locals on lockdown in Dublin

Ballymakenny Farm Potatoes has moved from supplying chefs to a drive-through and courier service

Is farming a two-acre smallholding in Co Meath for the birds? Not at Jackdaw Farm

How I re-created McDonald’s most famous burger in my kitchen (It’s all in the sauce)

My reviews are on ice. What will be left of our restaurant industry when the thaw comes?

‘It’s the food we want to eat ourselves and we want to share it with other people’

Imogen Rabone started Trees on the Land to encourage landowners to grow native trees

From a loft-like cafe in Kildare to a fine vegetarian in Sligo, these great places make for a terrific pit stop

Restaurant review: Ballyvolane House is a lovely way to experience the food of home

From shameless 1970s indulgence to a late afternoon feast, you won’t go wrong with these great spots

Restaurant review: ‘It's weird not eating this food from some kind of cardboard box’

Restaurant review: Woodruff has spades of ambition and makes the most of its space

These 10 places have one thing in common: it’s all about the food. Treat the kids – and yourself

This Dublin newcomer uses the best ingredients and cooks them lovingly

Restaurateurs share trade secrets of the ‘worst night of the year’

Try these 16 places for great food that won't cost you a fortune

Restaurant review: This new Italian operates at breakneck speed, but does so very well

Review: Liath is a beautiful, joyful one-man show with no stiff service or reverential whispering

Review: This accomplished cooking is wildly successful with the after-work crowd

Review: This impressive restaurant weaves culinary magic and produces fine dining

After years of full-strength retail therapy, charity shops would be my nicotine patches

Review: One of the few places you can eat well, in a lovely room, for a reasonable price

The menu has potential but the food is mystifyingly lacking in flavour

My most memorable food of 2019 was made by cooks and chefs who put food joy on plates

Review: This Pakistani restaurant in Artane proves dinner in the suburbs needn’t feel like a consolation prize

From The Irish Times’s Delicious List 2019: fine dining without overdoing the formality? We think these hit the spot

From The Irish Times’s Delicious List 2019: Our go-to informal restaurants and bars

Restaurant review: Glas seems to be vegetarian and vegan, which makes the vegan Parmesan a bit of a head-scratcher

Food at the Rotunda is tastier, healthier and probably cheaper than in other Irish hospitals

Catherine Cleary changes her restaurant ratings after dining out with wheelchair users

Restaurant review: This Leinster House venue the has air of a pricey nursing home

Some say it’s a solution for a growing world. But it could be a Frankenfoods nightmare

Restaurant review: Almost every morsel of food that Sinéad Ní Gháirbhith serves is local and Irish

A cooker, chopping boards and a good knife are all some cooks need to work

All the playful bells and whistles of a fine-dining establishment, at a heist-worthy steal

Restaurant review: The English Market cafe sets a standard anywhere in Ireland should be proud to follow

Restaurant review: Beneath the city’s newest museum is a little cafe with a big personality

Our favourite places for lunch, from quick bites to special occasions

Restaurant review: A real pub with great food in a real part of Dublin

It's like a bereavement, say owners of Eastern Seaboard restaurant in Drogheda as Fish Shop plans a move out of Dublin to Tramore

Restaurant review: Outside are tables and blankets for outdoor lunch. Inside, the aroma of buttery fish

Review: Peter Everett charges steep prices, but this is exactly the hearty cooking I need

Good luck booking at Aimsir. It has six tables and only opens four nights a week

Review: The menu may have few words, but the food screams quality on a plate

Review: An unpretentious place so good it should become a destination in itself

Review: This ambitious secret-garden cafe combines history with a glimpse of a better future