Spend It Better

Game Changers: Blarney Park Allotments in Crumlin has grown out of a wasteland of burned-out rubbish

Game Changers: A refillable bottle makes every kind of sense: it’s cheaper, healthier and better for the environment

Home-grown floristry sector shows it doesn’t have to dominated by lorry logistics, fossil fuels, excess water consumption, pesticides and ‘Packed in Ireland’ stickers

Game Changers: An art exhibition at the Olivier Cornet Gallery in Dublin explores the relationship between trees and people in urban spaces

Game Changers: Founders of the Handmade Soap Company bought a farm 2km from their factory in Slane village

Game Changers: Derek Mooney’s new documentary highlights nature success stories across Europe, ‘like a Eurovision for wildlife’

Game Changers: Body & Soul is setting itself ambitious targets with the aim of becoming one of Ireland’s most sustainable festivals

Game Changers: This car’s personality is a weird mix of nervous nelly and boy racer. Good car. Bad car

Game Changers: Ponds are a great way to give wildlife a helping hand

Game Changers: The tide is turning against advertising and sponsorship by fossil fuel companies like Texaco

Game Changers: Every decision we make today should take into consideration seven generations of people ahead of us

Game Changers: This global movement encourages fashion-lovers to buy differently, repair, swap and pressure manufacturers to change

Game Changers: For No Mow May we’re encouraged to let grass grow but if you need space for playing or paths there is another way

Game Changers: Reflecting on a day of big open-ended questions that let us talk about a topic that can feel too daunting to mention

Game Changers: Anja Murray’s book is scattered with nature hacks, simple ways to connect us to the living world that is in us and everywhere around us

Game Changers: This year hillsides in west Cork and Kerry blazed again, to the exhaustion of firefighters and the despair of wildlife lovers

Game Changers: A Space to Grow matches garden owners with people who would love to grow food

Game Changers: Change Clothes Crumlin is holding its largest Dublin clothes swap this weekend

Game Changers: Gerri’s Place provides breaks for people suffering from anxiety or depression and in need of ‘time and space out of life’

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

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

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