Forest

Courtesy of the Irish Wildlife Trust

Gorse bush

A typical gorse bush can be made of up to 20 species of everygreen shrub. The Common Grouse is native to Western Europe, growing in clay and sandy soil.

Copyright Environmental Protection Agency.

Estuarine And Coastal Water Quality

Courtesy EPA

An aeroplane trail

You can complain about aircraft noise to the specific airport.

Copyright John Kennedy

Cooking old and new

Times have changed and so have the methods of cooking. The new oven cooker replaced open fire cooking but it does need to be disposed of at a WEEE recycling point for disposal when it is finished with.

Copyright the Dorothea Lange Collection, Oakland Museum of California

Do the right thing

ENFO, Ireland's public environmental and sustainable development information service, produced this poster to encourage people to increase and continue recycling. And Ireland are doing well at recycling - in 2007 Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (Weee) Ireland reported that 9kg of electronic waste per person was collected and recycled – over double the annual 4kg target set for Ireland by the EU.

Copyright the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government

Faecal coliforms in groundwater

Faecal coliforms in groundwater. Source: Ireland's Environment 2008.

Courtesy EPA

Bungalow Interior Plan

Designing your house in the right way, taking advantage of all the natural elements around it, is one of the best ways to make it sustainable to live in. This drawing shows us the rooms inside a bungalow or single storey house.

Courtesy of Irene Barber