Ecolution

Made in conjunction with the schoolchildren of Holy Trinity, Fethard for Cashel Arts Week, this episode looks at how water influences a town, how we use it and the ways in which people can act to value water more.

Made in conjunction with the schoolchildren of Cashel and Fethard for Cashel Arts Week, to investigate one place in great detail. This episode asks where the town has come from and what it could become.

This week we head back into the wild to ask how wolves could play a part in Ireland’s future. We visit Wild Ireland in Donegal to meet their wolf pack, talk with Rewilding Ireland and meet Tomm Moore to find the inspiration behind Wolfwalkers.

In a time of scary heat and massive flooding, Ecolution talks with some of the young An Taisce Climate Ambassadors who are working so hard to make a better future. For us all. Aiyana Helder, Sam Spillane and Grace Curry talk about how they began and why it’s important to start climate action, at whatever level you can, wherever you are.

Today we meet Karen and Lou, who cycle to school through Dublin. Professor Paul McNally of the National Children’s Research Centre discusses air quality and what it can do to our lungs. And journalist Bob Flavin talks about the future for the motor car. Plus a lot of other families who want better air and safer ways for us to actively travel.

Today’s Ecolution asks can rewilding help in slowing the climate crisis? We’re joined by Dr Una Fitzpatrick of the All Ireland Pollinator Plan. Pádraic Fogarty discusses the big plans contained in Shaping New Mountains. Plus Ray O’Foghlu talks rewilding, land and wild woods.

In the second part we head to Laois to spend time with John McHugh, Farming for Nature Ambassador and Organic Farmer. We meet Brigid Barry who runs FFN. And we talk with Mary Kate and Michael, two kids who live on a dairy farm. Plus Dr Shane and the Brain Trust.

In the first of two parts, we talk farming and biodiversity with Liam Lysaght, visit St Patrick’s School in Galway to see their award winning container garden, and head West to hear how Brendan Dunford and the Burren Programme are helping farmers change for nature in Co. Clare. Plus Dr Shane and you.

In a collaboration with five An Taisce Green Schools, we ask what does water mean to us?

For World Bee Day 2021 and National Biodiversity Week, Ecolution takes a trip to Wicklow to see how one family is trying to help our native pollinators at the Bee Sanctuary of Ireland.

This week, we plunge into the world of art and environment. Katie Holten discusses her Tree Alphabet at Visual in Carlow, and why words matter. Catherine Marshall talks about how art helps us see. Little Button Diaries have tips on green craft, and kids around Ireland talk creativity and possibility.

Today, Eamon Ryan, the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications joins us to answer kid’s questions about the Climate Action Bill. And activists Aoife (Foróige), Saoirse (Climate Ambassador) and Ella (Eco-Unesco) join the call to drill deeper into the issue.

Ecolution has teamed up with UNICEF Ireland for this episode to rummage through the mess that is Fast Fashion. 7 teenagers collaborated to make a show about our messy relationship with cheap clothes.

Today we celebrate Earth Day by digging into why it matters that everyone is considered, Globally, in our actions on Climate. We meet Joan and Clare of the Rise Up Movement in Uganda. Environmentalist Saoirse McHugh talks Climate Justice and Tomm Moore of Cartoon Saloon discusses their film for Greenpeace. Plus, Dr Shane and the Brain Trust.

Each of you listening cares about the environment and wants to play a part. In this episode we follow Saoirse Exton, a 15 year old An Taisce Climate Ambassador, to see how she approaches the Climate struggle and tries to make a difference.

Today we discuss silence, and how little of it we now get. Matt Mikkelson of Quiet Parks International talks noise pollution and how saving One Square Inch of silence protects a whole park. And kids around Ireland share the noise of the places they live.

This is a different episode from normal. With the arrival of the revised Climate Action Bill we decided to gather young activists from across the country to ask does it do enough? Fridays for Future, Eco Unesco and the NYCI met, virtually, to discuss the bill and our future.

We’re back with a brand new season and this episode sets the stage. We meet the Ecolution braintrust, a group of kids across the country who share their feelings on the climate right now. Laura Van Buylaere, the 12 year old inventor of Carbo Scan. We check in with Dr. Shane & meet Niharika Iyengar of the WWF to talk about Earth Hour.

From newsletters and cavemen to benches and gardens, this episode looks at how doing things together makes things better.

Ecolution hops in the saddle to #CelebrateCycling. What better way to get around Ireland and do something good for the environment? #AndSheCycles #StreetsforAll

This episode takes you on a whistle-stop tour through all of the amazing online initiatives to help kids keep it green whilst off school. And kids get green and save the snails.

We celebrate World Bee Day by getting buzzy at some hives in Dublin 3. We meet young people passionate about our stripy friends. And a young woman who controls literally thousands of them!!

James talks to Lyla and Freya, two kids making a podcast all about the natural world within the 2k limit. Luke O'Neill, Immunologist & Dr. Shane dig into Covid 19. And Lucy O'Hagan, alongside kids from around the globe, talk about what the Lockdown has meant to them.

On this, the 50th Earth Day, Ecolution zooms out to look back in. We hear from the Japanese space agency, Jaxa. We hear from children outside Ireland to see what Climate Change means to them. And Niall Hatch of Birdwatch Ireland gives us a birds eye view. Quite literally.

A short piece from James on what you can do whilst at home. Stay tuned for some new specials in the coming month.