Baglady calls for action on plastic bags, packaging, and waste of all kinds
I started campaigning about plastic bags at the end of 2000, so it’s now 7 years on and we’re not winning yet. How much longer do we need?
Continue reading ’7 years is long enough’
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Baglady meets NI’s new Environment Minister, Arlene Foster at the NEEDabag? Film Launch at Queen’s Film Theatre, and returns to Ballymena Bus & Railway Station to do something she’s wanted to do for a long time.
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Published on
June 9, 2007 in
Film and NEEDabag? 2007.
Tags: awareness, barn-owl, bbc, beach, bottles, breathing-spaces, carlingford-lough, city-centre, council, cycle-network, derry, do-one-thing, dredging, fair, Film, flower-seeds, glass, guildhall-square, hedgehog, inishowen, londonderry, mayor, music, mussel-fishing, picking-up, planting, public-transport, sea, strangford-lough, sustainable, train, trees, wildlife, woodland-trust.
Baglady and crew join BBC Radio Foyle’s Do One Thing campaign to make life easier for Derry wildlife.
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Published on
June 8, 2007 in
Film and NEEDabag? 2007.
Tags: armagh, art, awards, bag-for-life, buses, clean, councils, drawing, eco-flags, eco-schools, electricity, health, heritage, landscape, navan-fort, paper, pick-up, pollution, prizes, pylons, recycling, survey, tidy, tourism, trains, translink, walking.
Saints and Scholars Integrated Primary School join the local fight against huge electric pylons; Mullavilly PS report on their environment work.
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June 7, 2007 in
Film and NEEDabag? 2007.
Tags: bus, community, council, countryside, dungannon, energy, fair-trade, farmers-market, flight-of-the-earls, flowers, garden, greenhouse, history, howard-primary-school, kitchen, message, multiculturalism, multinationals, oneill, public-transport, radish, republic-of-ireland, restoration, rural, seal, solar-panels, sustainability, town-centre, travellers, troubles, urban, water, wind-turbine.
As they prepare for the reopening of Castle Hill and their beautiful view, after hundreds of years, the people of Dungannon welcome old friends and new arrivals with a strong environmental message. Howard Primary School show us how they are leading the way for Eco-schools.
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Published on
June 2, 2007 in
Film and NEEDabag? 2007.
Tags: arlene-foster, basket, business, cars, community, culture, cycle, dancing, dundonald, fair, fancy-dress, fashion, food, green-dragon-accreditation, levy, local, multiculturalism, multinationals, organic, paper, parade, plastic-bag-alternatives, renewable-energy, silver-band, solar-panels, solar-power, south-africa, tax, wildlife.
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Published on
June 1, 2007 in
NEEDabag? 2007.
Tags: armagh, baglady, ballycastle, derry, downpatrick, dungannon, Film, map, photos, public.
We’re now over halfway through our film project. Things are going amazingly well, full of fun and inspiration. Have you come to visit us? Seen the pics? No?
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Here’s where you can see us over the next few weeks doing out public edits in the afternoons (don’t forget you can always follow our progress on the map):
Thursday 7th June: Market Square, Dungannon
Friday 8th June: The Mall, Armagh
Saturday 9th June: Guildhall Square, Derry
Come along for a chat, we are all friendly folks.
Finally, we haven’t managed to get our films for Ballycastle and Downpatrick online yet: we’ll be doing this just as soon as we can. Thanks for your patience.