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Single use plastic: impact and alternative solution
Marine animals die from eating plastic; this is why I wanted to raise awareness about single use plastic and its consequences. Humans eat up 18.1 kg of plastic in their lifetime. In a way, you eat the plastic that you trough away. I think that information...
Agriculture and peatlands: the need for a new balance
During the last century, one of humanity’s main goals has always been constant growth, in order to reach undefined well-being. This growth can be seen in everyday life and it affects agriculture above all. Major impacts include the impoverishment of soil,...
Spring is in the Air
When I first heard of the fact that spring in Ireland starts on 1st February, I couldn’t quite believe it. Why, Belarusian word for February – люты (luty) – literally means ruthless, fierce – meaning the frosts that usually reign over Eastern Europe on this month. So planting definitely doesn’t come up to my mind when I think of February…
Nature is not a garbage disposal
Nature is a phenomenon of the physical world, collectively, including plants, animals, landscape and other features and products of the earth. I want to show a video with you. In particular, I choose this one because it is a personification of Nature and I am sure it...
The Process of Change for Peatlands’ Sake
Finland and Ireland seem to be far away from each other, both from a geographical and cultural point of view. Nevertheless, if there is something that they have in common, it is a boundless natural landscape and people that love it without thinking it twice. This love...
Tania’s Quarantine Diary
After months and months of waiting for my Irish visa, I got my passport with it back on 24th December, that was quite a present for Christmas, I tell you! Nevertheless, Christmas is not as widely celebrated in Belarus as the New Year’s Eve, so I was preparing for my travel and I made myself even a nicer present of travelling to my ESC project on 31st December.
GEAI Volunteers’ Christmas Holidays
The Christmas holidays have arrived and we GEAI volunteers will spend them here, in Ireland, for the first time. Surely, we will make the best of it. What will our programs be?
Simona’s Quarantine Diary: Part II
Simona’s quarantine in Ireland continues. How did the second week go?
My quarantine: the beginning of the journey
Simona has just arrived in Ireland and she must face 14 days of quarantine: how are things going?