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Check out our new website at GEAI.ie!
Our EVS volunteers have worked very hard in the last four months to completely transform our website and make it clean, clear and focused while being very visual and easy to navigate. It’s worth a look to see how our smart and creative volunteers can work together to...
Climate Action Days with Boyle TY students
Following on our successful pilot programme of Climate Action Days for Transition Year students earlier in the year, GEAI volunteers are presenting a similar programme to a class of 15 year olds in Abbey Community College, Boyle. So far we have made presentations on...
Siri is our Climate Ambassador!
Siri Karavida, ESC volunteer at GEAI, is coming to the end of her volunteering year with us. The list of the things she managed to do while in Ireland is pretty impressive: Climate Action Days at schools, the household energy survey of Boyle, the Leitrim Cróga project...
Leitrim volunteers enjoy Greece
This summer Good Energies Alliance sent 6 young volunteers from Leitrim to Xylokastro, Greece to help the local community take care of the town and prevent forest fires. They spent a month there working together with other young people from various countries within...
First Leitrim volunteers complete European Solidarity Corps camp
This summer Good Energies Alliance Ireland sent six young people to Xylokastro, Greece to take care of the local woodland and prevent forest fires as part of the new European Solidarity Corps programme. They worked for the local municipality together with young people...
Boyle can save €6.1 million on energy
A study done by Good Energies Alliance Ireland on household energy use in Boyle discovered that the town spends over €4 million on fossil fuels each year.
GEAI welcomes climate change discussion but challenges statements made by Councillors
At their last County Council meeting, a discussion was held on the response of Leitrim to climate change. Councillor Sean McDermott proposed a motion designating Leitrim as a “Carbon Neutral” county with renewable energy compensating for our carbon emissions,...
Boyle Energy Seminar
Our Boyle Energy Seminar took place Monday 17th June at the Boyle Community College. After conducting energy surveys in April and May for the households of Boyle, we finally presented the results of the amount of energy, money and CO2 emissions that the town accounts...
We visited the CAT!
In the middle of May we came back from a wonderful trip to Wales and England - "we" standing for Del, Siri, Jules, Sasha and Sarah. Sarah had just finished her volunteering year with us and is back home now. So, besides some lovely towns and the beauty of the fresh...