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Join our bid to be Ireland's Greenest Town by 2025

Ballina - Ireland's Greenest Town is an initiative to make Ballina Ireland’s greenest town by 2025. It brings together families, business and community groups in Ballina and North Mayo to work together on ambitious, transformative projects to bring about a brighter, more sustainable future.

This is a small step on an important journey for Ballina and North Mayo, and we are all in this together.  If you've signed our Green Town charter, you've already pledged to do just THREE things for our environment. If you're looking for inspiration, to learn more about the positive things we can do to make a change, we've gathered some resources below here that might help.

If you have a project that you think might be of interest or would like to learn more about the Green Town projects, get in touch at info@maryrobinsoncentre.ie for more information. 

Green Town Resources

Green Your Business
SEAI Business Grants & Supports – Find out more about the grants and supports offered by SEAI for businesses in Ireland
Green Business  – How to ensure your business operations are as resource efficient as they can be
Local Enterprise Office Green for Micro – a free programme to help prepare small businesses for the low carbon, more resource efficient economy of the future
How to manage your business waste
Sustainable Travel Ireland – training, support and a membership network striving to develop sustainable tourism businesses in Ireland
Ethical And Eco[1]friendly Cost-Saving Ideas For Business
 
Green Your Home
SEAI Home Energy Grants – Find out more about the SEAI grants for energy efficiency in your home
Support biodiversity in your garden – Ideas from the All-Ireland Pollinators Hub to support wildlife in your garden or local green areas
Plastic audit for your home – How much single use plastic do you use in your home?
Reduce, reuse, recycle – a great resource to manage your waste responsibly and efficiently
Rathroeen Civic Amenity Site – recycling, hazardous waste, green waste and more for Ballina
How to mend your clothes
Tips for a non-toxic home
Top tips for making compost at home  
Bike to Work scheme
 
Green Your Community
Clean Coasts – For you if you’d like to help protect and care for Ireland’s waterways, coastline, seas, ocean and marine life
Support biodiversity in your garden – Ideas from the All-Ireland Pollinators Hub to support wildlife in your garden or local green areas
Ballina Community Clean Up – For you if you’d like to help with Saturday morning litter pick ups and community enhancement projects  
Ballina Tidy Towns – For you if you’d like to help with the upkeep of Ballina’s public spaces and town centre, with biodiversity and town enhancement projects
Leave No Trace – How to minimise your impact as you enjoy the outdoors
Sick of Plastic – how to take a stand against single use plastic
Sustainable Communities Toolkit - supporting local communities across Ireland to awaken awareness, deepen understanding and activate participation in sustainable development with a view to living better by using less.
SEAI Community Grant - supports energy efficiency community projects through capital funding, partnerships, and technical support
 
 
Climate Jargon Buster – This site has clear, plain English explanations for the unfamiliar language and terminology around climate action that bewilders us all at times
Giki Zero - Calculate your Carbon Footprint & find actions to reduce it 

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  • Home
  • The Centre
    • About >
      • Archive
      • Museum
      • Vision & Mission
      • Biography
      • Annual Reports
      • Project Partners
    • Education
    • Research
    • Artist Impression
  • Ballina Green Town
    • Mayo Climate Action Weekend
    • Green Town Charter Signatories
    • Ballina Green Town Vision
    • Resources
  • Events
    • Mayo Changemakers
    • International Human Rights Lecture Series
    • Previous Events >
      • Schools Programme
      • International Symposium
      • Visiting Scholar Programme
      • 2017 IHRL
      • 2016 IHRL
      • 2015 IHRL
      • 2014 IHRL
  • Climate Conference
  • Blog
  • Contact Us