Cork Greenmap

Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh County Cork Presents:
Cork Harbour Project, Beyond the MythsWalking Tour with Jim Wilson
Sunday 2pm 14th September 2008

Meeting at Passage West Playground

A myriad of history, wildlife and natural beauty is waiting to be experienced from Hop Island to Monkstown Creek in Ireland’s largest natural harbour. As part of the Cork Harbour Project - Beyond the Myths 2008, Cork Greenmap is producing a walking guide of this beautiful stretch of the harbour. Home to industry and terminus to the first railway line in Cork, it was also a favored holiday destination during the 19th Century. It continues to be much enjoyed by walkers, cyclists, sailors and fishermen who appreciate its natural setting and character. The walk passes through Passage West on its way to Monkstown. Inhabited by local and migrant birds the ecology of the area is of international importance. The guide will provide information for you as you take to the trail.

Foodie events around Waterford from Thusday to Saturday, plus  A Sustainable Future for the Irish Food Industry conference on Friday 5th September, Tourism & Leisure Building, WIT, Waterford.

An important conference for all those involved in the Irish food chain including state bodies, retailers, growers, food producers and consumers. If you eat you should be there.
Check out the details on http://terramadreireland.com/

This just in from Healthy Food For All:

Healthy Food for All and */safe/food* are establishing a Demonstration Programme on Community Food Initiatives and are looking for funding applications from eligible groups and organisations. The purpose of this funding is to establish a Demonstration Programme of Community Food Initiatives (CFIs) on the island of Ireland. Between five and seven CFIs will be funded over a three year period. Each CFI will receive annual funding over a period of three years to set up, manage and sustain a project. Funding will be up to a maximum of €75,000 (£60,000) provided on *an incremental basis* over the three year period.
CFIs are projects that improve the availability and accessibility of healthy food for low-income groups at a local level, using a community development approach.
This funding is open to community groups or groups which have an anti-poverty focus in their work. We would especially welcome applications from partnerships/collaborations of different groups. As the programme has an all-island focus, a minimum of two projects will be selected from both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
For more information and to download application form, click on Community Food Initiatives <http://www.healthyfoodforall.com/content/view/58/42/>. More information about CFIs and case studies is available atwww.healthyfoodforall.com <http://www.healthyfoodforall.com>.
The closing date for applications is *30^th September 2008.*
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Phone or  email any queries :info@healthyfoodforall.com.
Sarah Fleming
Development Worker
Healthy Food for All
The Red House
Clonliffe College,
Dublin 3.
Tel: 353 1 8360011
Mobile: 353 86 3888728
Fax: 353 1 8367166

The Free Range Graphics people have teamed up with 350.org to broadcast the following message: What’s it going to take to stop climate chaos? Well, global warming guru Bill McKibben has a simple answer: 350. That’s the parts per million of CO2 in the atmosphere that scientists now believe is safe. And it’s the number we have to achieve.

McKibben and our friends at 350.org set out to spread this simple concept, a goal that we can all aim for. And they turned to Free Range to make it into a killer music video that anyone, regardless of the language they speak, can understand. Check it out at http://www.350.org/en/animation

Singer / Songwriters John Spillane and Mick Flannery are to perform live at Cork City’s  newest music venue the Pavillion Bar in Patrick Street on August 6th as a fundraiser for the Free the Old Head of Kinsale campaign.

Contrary to reports in a weekend supplement in the Irish Examiner, the long running campaign to restore public access to the Old Head of Kinsale is alive and well and looking forward to its long-awaited court challenge on the issue of public access which we hope will come up this Autumn.
The gig will start at 9pm on August 6th.

Check out the upcoming Cork Cycling Arts Festival, a celebration of the bicycle culture in Cork - free entertainment for all ages including movie nights, street events, workshops and much more - info and programme on

http://www.cork-cycling-arts-festival.org/

I’m sure most of you already know (and love!) Freecycle Cork

http://www.freecycle.org/group/IE/Ireland/City%20of%20Cork

- for the free giving of stuff that you don’t need and taking of stuff that you do - they have just extended operations and have a west Cork group..

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/westcorkfreecycle/

Other similar services (with Cork specifics) include:

Jumbletown, www.jumbletown.ie

Gumtree, http://cork.gumtree.ie/ -this one also includes stuff for sale and rent

and Wastematchers:, http://www.wastematchers.com/ the city councils

Go wild

Check out the new Free Range Studios animated series for kids on saving the world from global warming and pollution: http://www.greengorilla.com/

Captain Planet for the new generation!

Also well worth checking out for are Free Ranges other brilliant cause-based web-movies, including ‘The Meatrix’, ‘Grocery Store-Wars’ and ‘The Story of Stuff’.

http://www.freerangestudios.com/

“For Biodiversity Week and as part of the Cork City Heritage Plan - Lough Bat Box scheme, the Cork County Bat Group (CCBG) are holding a public bat walk at the Lough on Thursday 22nd May. They will be meeting just after sunset at 9.45pm outside the Hawthorn bar. All members of the public are welcome, no previous experience required. Members of the CCBG will be on hand with bat detectors to help identify any bats seen.”

After 4 years in Cork, and in Cork Greenmap, our beloved frenchies have finally returned to France (about 2 years later than planned I think,.. Cork does that to people!). So we’d like to wish them all the best, and say thanks a million for their friendship and for all their ideas, time, work, & craic. It has been a pleasure!

Bon voyages Seb & Sophie,

See you in Britanny