CALL
Climate Action Louisburgh Locality
We are a not-for-profit voluntary group of like-minded individuals working towards a more sustainable future. We carry out actions to promote the reduction of carbon emissions and waste while facilitating biodiversity enhancement in our locality
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Answer the CALL now
Take action and help us change our future!
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Take Action
We take climate action through several semi-autonomous sub-groups, so volunteers can use their time and effort while focusing on their particular interests
Sustainable energy
Be energy efficient and move to renewables
Local food production
Grow your own produce
Public awareness
Promote climate change awareness
Take Action
We take climate action through several semi-autonomous sub-groups, so volunteers can use their time and effort while focusing on their particular interests
Be energy efficient and move to renewables
Use less fossil fuels
Grow your own produce
Plant trees and promote biodiversity
Promote climate change awareness
Buy and trash less
Photo by Adrian Tiernan, @artaltitudesdroneworks
About Us
Our region extends from Killary Harbour to Clew Bay and from Lecanvey to Clare Island, including farmland, mountains, bog, islands, rivers, forest, ocean and urban areas with about 1,000 households.
We take climate action through diverse sub-groups that work independently and report back to the main group. We are always looking for volunteers to help carry out actions and expand CALL’s reach. If you want to know more about CALL, follow this link:
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Recent News and Events
CALL at the “Communities Caring for Water” National Conference November 9th 2024. December 8, 2024 - CALL was represented at the recent "Communities Caring for Water" conference in November 2024. This event was jointly organised by LAWPRO and The Rivers Trust, and held at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Athlone (very nice!).
November, already? really? November 6, 2024 - I haven't written a blog for a while. I keep saying that to myself and then not getting to it, not because I don't want to write but because I've just been really busy. Lots of new projects underway, new collaborations with various partners, i've been out and about giving presentations and talking to school kids (more about all these activities soon). So that's by way of beginning- which busy thing shall I start wth?
Food Security October 6, 2024 - In CALL we are developing some work on "food security". We're hoping to encourage and support locally grown food. This fits with at least two of the main themes of CALL's activities: Local Food Production; Sustainable Living. Food Security is a genuine issue for us in Ireland.
Visiting Lough Carra Catchment Association September 19, 2024 - This week CALL visited Lough Carra Catchment Association's public meeting. This was attended by over 30 people from the community (and beyond). There were four speakers giving updates on the progress of the monitoring and baselining studies that the Catchment Association are currently carrying out and a few other updates as you can see from their flier.
Event: Halloween swap September 19, 2024 - It is scary! In Ireland we bin about 700,000 costumes every Halloween! 83% of the costumes are made using non-recyclable petroleum-based plastics; meaning they are set...Writing funding bids September 11, 2024 - A significant part of my role as the CALL Action Officer is writing applications for funding. The idea is to increase the capacity of CALL by bringing in funding that will help us ACT across all the themes of the organisation and ENGAGE with the people in our locality (and beyond).
Event: Join us for another apple pressing day September 9, 2024 - Let’s meet Friday 27th of September, 10-2 pm in Louisburgh Hall, at the last Louisburgh Community Market for the summer season. Bring along clean bottles...
CALL Action Officer- What’s it like? September 7, 2024 - What's it like being the CALL Action Officer? Remember I'm writing for public consumption...... It's great! I started the role in March 2024, following an interview with some of the Directors of CALL (which I quite enjoyed) and before that an application. I've been on both sides of the interview table plenty of times but I prepared as well as I could for this interview. More on that in another post perhaps.
Blue Dot campaign interviews September 6, 2024 - I'm the Action Officer for CALL. I'm currently working on the "Blue Dot to the Sea" campaign as part of the funding we have received from LAWPRO under its Catchment Support Fund (2024). I explained a bit about the blue dot designation for water ways in my recent post "CALL's Blue Dot to the Sea Campaign" https://callclimateaction.ie/2024/09/05/calls-blue-dot-to-the-sea-campaign/↗. I'm conducting interviews with members of the community who live and work with our rivers. How did I devise the interview questions?
CALL’s Blue Dot to the Sea Campaign September 5, 2024 - The purpose of our Blue Dot project is to engage the community connected with the rivers in our sub-catchment- the Carrowniskey and Bunowen rivers and their tributaries. A key aim is to help these rivers be as ecologically pure as they can be.
The Blue Dot project involves a few different angles: I am carrying out recorded and anonymised interviews with people who live with these rivers, organising some public events, attending knowledge sharing sessions, and visiting some schools and colleges to talk about the project and its findings.
Louisburgh, Co. Mayo
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