Tipperary Energy Agency has been successful in securing a grant as part of the Grundtvig Learning Partnership. As part of this programme we are offering an expenses paid trip (hotel, flights and meals) to Italy, leaving on 8th October and returning on the 10th October for four lucky people. On the trip we will visit strong examples
Tipperary Energy Agency bought 8 people to Leuven and surrounding towns in Belgium to learn about a number of sustainability projects thanks to a Grundtvig Learning Partnership grant. The 8 winners of the green trip represented 5 groups; Birdhill Tidy Towns, Tipperary Green Business Network, Cabra Wetlands, Drombane Community Retrofit Scheme and Local Switch. The group agreed that
Tipperary Energy Agency was recently successful in securing a grant as part of the Grundtvig Learning Partnership. As part of this programme we are offering an expenses paid trip (hotel, flights and meals) to Italy, leaving on 8th October and returning on the 10th October for four or five lucky people. On the trip we will visit
The Energy Neighbourhoods energy saving campaign results are in and Emly Tidy Towns are on their way to Brussels saving a masive 37%, while Birdhill follow with a saving of 31%. Cloughjordan Tidy towns and their eco-villagers also saved energy during our campaign saving 19% and 10% respectively. More results will be posted in the
332.000 Euro for cars! According to an analysis of the «Verlag Motor Presse Stuttgart«, this is the amount spent by the average German during his/her 54 years of «automobile life». This includes buying 3 new and 5 used cars, insurances, taxes, parking, maintenance, tires and oil change. By the way: you can have a «lifetime flat rate»
Jack writes: “My dad’s gone crazy these days since he joined the Energy Neighbourhoods project, thinking off new ways to save energy and money. Some days I don’t know what’s going through his head. Perhaps he’s already thinking of another energy saving plan. Like his last wonderful plan by putting an egg timer in the
The TEA have been trying out the Renault Fluence for the past 3 weeks; courtesy of Pat Cleary Motors. The car will be going to the Tipperary Institute next week for their SERVE conference. Meantime the land speed record has been broken by an electric car built by Lotus and this link shows the electric
This years Energy Neighbourhoods competition will involve a number of Tidy Towns in Ireland and these include Killoscully, Dundrum, Birdhill and Emly. The latter two have won Tidy Towns before and Emly performed well in the initial Energy Neighbourhoods competition in 2008/2009. One Energy Master joked today that there was no turkey to be cooked
