In his latest commentary, Professor Frank Convery, Chairperson of Comhar - Sustainable Development Council (SDC) - reflects on a recent visit to Boston. 

Nanotechnologies have enormous potential benefits for manufacturers, consumers, employees, patients and the environment.

A meeting aimed at developing ecotourism certification and training for Burren-based businesses will take place in Lisdoonvarna on Thursday 26 June.  

Minister of State at the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Seán Power TD, visited Churchtown NS to present its students with a Green Flag for excellence in the implementation of an environmental awareness initiative - The Green Schools Programme.

Over 900 of the UK's online retailers will - from 16 June - offer customers the opportunity to earn reward points on a new green loyalty card which can then be redeemed against environmentally friendly products and services.

With the addition of NUI Maynooth’s Team Acidrain, the world’s largest student technology competition - the Microsoft Imagine Cup (July 3-8) - now has two teams representing Ireland in Paris next month, amongst teams from over 50 countries worldwide.

Announced at the recent British Soft Drinks Association Industry Lunch, the soft drinks industry's sustainability strategy sets out a series of long-term collective objectives developed to further improve the industry's environmental performance.

A network of more than 50 European environmental non-governmental organisations has launched 'Shrink' - a joint project addressing the madness of over-consumption of paper.

Rabobank will be carbon neutral - for 2007, the internal, direct carbon footprint of the Rabobank Group was calculated and will be compensated for this summer.

A new survey on the relationship between IT and green initiatives has found that IT professionals take environmental concerns more seriously than their companies - but that collaboration between IT and other departments is necessary for effective changes.