News Desk
mary_kelly.jpgECONOMIC RECOVERY when it comes must involve Ireland developing a low-carbon “smart, green economy”, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said yesterday. 
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NEW PROJECTIONS for Ireland’s Kyoto targets published barely a fortnight ago may already be out of date, Green Party TD Ciaran Cuffe has said.
Velux solar panelsVelux is calling for Irish homeowners to take positive steps to improve the energy efficiency of their own homes. The company’s sustainable department is planning to raise awareness of renewable technologies though an information-led campaign at Ireland’s largest consumer-facing exhibitions throughout 2009.
 

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Kingspan Solar, part of Kingspan Renewables Ltd, has launched its all-Ireland solar accreditation scheme.

 
Following the Home Energy Saving scheme announcement by Minister Eamon Ryan last week, Durkan Residential, the Irish homebuilding company, has launched a new subsidiary, Durkan EcoFix , which will create 150 jobs to serve the home insulation market estimated to be worth €9 billion.

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Duncan Stewart launched the build phase of Ireland's first ecovillage, the Village project in Cloughjordan, Co Tipperary, last Saturday, 21 March.
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Barack Obama may be forced to delay signing up to a new international agreement on climate change in Copenhagen at the end of the year.
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THE GREEN Party will bring thousands of “green-tech” jobs to Dublin, its European candidate election in the constituency, Déirdre de Búrca, promised yesterday.
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 Barack Obama today declared the billions of dollars he is planning to spend on renewable energy projects off-limits to the usual bartering over the next few weeks with Congress.
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