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From Minsk With Love (And A Little Bit of Patience)
Hello, my name is Tatsiana, or Tania for short, I’m from Minsk, Belarus. I am a new volunteer at GEAI, but instead of practicing social distancing of 2 meters with the rest of the team, I work at a 2300-something km distance due to a very long visa procedure. When I...
Marine: Quarantine Days
The first day in the house was the arrival one, so it was a very long and tiring day. The second and third days were installation days, when I unpacked my clothes and sorted them. Also, I spoke with my family. My sister and my parents wanted a tour of the...
Silvia: A Quarantine Diary
DAY 1 (31/08) It’s 8 p.m. and we have just arrived at our new house. I started travelling at 9.30 this morning, going from my little town to Venice Airport. Luckily, I didn’t have to stop at another airport to arrive in Dublin. But I guess the real adventure started...
How green is Leitrim, really?
That was the question a team of young European researchers hosted by Good Energies Alliance Ireland (GEAI) spent six months working to answer. In December, the team produced the first Irish county-based carbon inventory report of its kind, the Leitrim Cróga Report....
Trip to Arigna Fuels bioeconomy hub
Heritage The whole area surrounding the sleepy village of Arigna, in County Roscommon, near the Leitrim border, was once one of Ireland's lively mining and ironworks hotspot. Thousands of miners, generation after generation, extracted ore from the heart of the nearby...
Leitrim set to be carbon neutral by 2030
How can Leitrim reduce its emissions to become carbon neutral by 2030? This question will be discussed at the Leitrim Cróga Climate Dialogue Session in the Bush Hotel on Thursday 20th February at 7pm. The GEAI Cróga report launched last December looked at how much an...
Leitrim Cróga Climate Dialogue: 2nd Session
Nationally, Climate Dialogue sessions provide opportunities for everyone interested in tackling the climate crisis to contribute ideas and actions. The goal of Leitrim Cróga Climate Dialogue is to come up with initiatives and policies to make County Leitrim climate...
Solar Panels & Community Power
In this blog we'll explore the new opportunities for community power, via community-owned energy assets, but first... Some updates from our Solar System As reported in a previous blog, GEAI now has its own 6 kW Solar Photovoltaic System installed on Ballinaglera...
Leitrim Cróga Climate Dialogue: 1st session
The first session of Leitrim Cróga Climate Dialogue took place in Ballinaglera on Saturday 7th December. This exciting and well-attended event included the launch of the Cróga report, a report on the Western Development Commission LeCO project, and a really...