Congratulations to The Ecovillage on winning gold in China! The Ecovillage in Cloughjordan, County Tipperary has just won a Gold Medal Award at the 2013 International Awards for Liveable Communities (LivCom), also known as the ‘Green Oscars’. This year’s competition was hosted by Xiamen, PR China where the winners were announced at the closing ceremony on Monday

The SustainCo (Sustainable Energy For Rural Communities) online toolkit was launched this weekend at Ireland’s first ‘Open Doors Days’ for near zero energy rated buildings.  The ‘Open Doors Days’ event saw a huge number pioneering low energy homes and buildings  all over the Ireland open their doors to the public.  Visitors to homes and buildings

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

Energy Action is organising the Nearly Zero Energy Buildings Open Doors Ireland event, which will be taking place this weekend, . This event, which is taking place in 10 countries under an Intelligent Energy Europe programme, is very similar to the Open House event, though with a focus purely on very low energy buildings. The

The Tipperary Energy will be visiting 5 North Tipperary Primary schools this term as part of the SEAI Energy Awareness Programme for primary schools. This week the children from Borrisoleigh Boys NS, Templetuohy NS and Kilkeary NS will get to meet Francoise and Guzzler to engage into hands-on workshops to learn more about energy, climate

The TEA would like to invite interested parties to contact us at info@tea.ie if you are interested in joining us on a study trip to Vaxjo in Sweden on the 28th May 2012. The trip will be 75% funded under IEE programme for suitable applicants. Hurry as time is running out. The tour is spread

All wood fuel producers are invited to participate in a wood fuel producers experience exchange in 2012 June. For those interesting in visiting a well established biomass supply chain network in Trento, northern Italy please contact pphelan@tea.ie

Reduce your Heating Bills using Wood Energy “FREE” Business to Client Networking Seminar 9th November 2011 – Hotel Kilkenny “Did you know your Heating Costs – up by 20% since October 1st 2011 CHANCE TO WIN 8 INDEPENDENT €1,000 FEASIBILITY STUDIES SPEAKERS: Liam Griffin – “CEO” Griffin Hotel Group – “Private Sector – Ferrycarrig &