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Recycling Award for Croke Park

05 Jun 2010

Cúl Green recently received the Repak Partnership award for 2009. The Repak partnership award is given to the business or organization that has achieved outstanding results in the areas of recycling and waste management.

Environmental Achievements at Croke Park

23 Feb 2010

The Cúl Green Environmental Management Group with ESB has been busy working within Croke Park and has delivered excellent results during 2009. Here is an overview of their achievements.

Love Food Hate Waste

17 Feb 2010

Over 10 million tonnes of food is thrown away by households in Ireland and the UK every year. Food waste costs the average family with children €900 a year and has serious environmental implications too.

Green Week at NUI Galway

10 Feb 2010

NUI Galway’s Green Week, now in its third year, was held last week (1-7 February) at the university. The Green Week programme featured many environmental themed events such as Ecolympics, Leave your Car at Home Day and Wear Green Day.

2009 electricity savings at Croke Park

01 Feb 2010

While the public have been playing their part in helping us make Croke Park carbon neutral by making over 65,000 carbon saving pledges in the last eighteen months the Cúl Green Team within Croke Park has been busy delivering on their targets.

Q4 electricity savings at Croke Park

25 Jan 2010

While the public have been playing their part in helping us make Croke Park carbon neutral by making over 65,000 carbon saving pledges in the last sixteen months the Cúl Green Team within Croke Park has been busy delivering on their targets.

The 2010 Championship Target

18 Jan 2010

We have just released our carbon saving target for the 2010 championship year. The goal to the end of September 2010 is to further reduce the carbon footprint of Croke Park by 6,700 tonnes of CO2. This will be achieved through energy savings within Croke Park and by fans making carbon saving pledges. Reaching this target will mean that we are well on our way to making Croke Park carbon neutral by 2014.

Win tickets to Des Bishop

12 Jan 2010

Comedian Des Bishop has been working with ESB Customer Supply on www.desbishopunplugged.ie, showing how easy it is to save money by becoming more energy efficient. As part of that, Des will be doing an exclusive gig in the Button Factory in Dublin on Wednesday the 3rd February

Tickets to Ireland’s 6 Nations Matches

06 Jan 2010

Following Ireland’s Grand Slam success in last year’s 6 Nations there is great excitement coming up to this year's Championship. No doubt there will be great care within the Irish team to manage expectations of a back-to-back Grand Slam.

Tips for an energy efficient Christmas

17 Dec 2009

In an effort to save energy and money this Christmas we’ve compiled a list of energy saving tips for the festive season. Whether cooking, driving or giving presents these should help minimise the environmental effect.