Develop ethical purchasing and travel policies for your organisation

Encourage staff to avail of cycle-to-work scheme to help reduce your impact on the environment.

Carry out a waste audit for your organisation

Learn more about the Food Waste Charter for Ireland and how you can sign up. See the template from Galway County Council on preventing food waste within organisations.

Carry out an energy audit for your organisation

You can apply for a Better Energy Communities grant - Ireland’s national retrofit initiative. It's aimed at upgrading the energy efficiency and renewable energy usage of buildings and facilities.

Organise a workshop for households on how to create water harvesters for their home

Organise a workshop on how to create water harvesters for homes locally.

Encourage people in the local community to sign up to an 'Eco-Pledge'

See: http://southernwasteregion.ie/content/ecopledge/sustainable-living

Make information available for households to to retrofit their homes

There are a range of grants available through SEAI: www.seai.ie/grants/home-grants/better-energy-homes/ and retrofit programme: https://www.seai.ie/grants/home-grants/deep-retrofit-programme/

Facilitate a process of working towards becoming a Transition Town

Check out: https://transitionnetwork.org/country/ie/

Set up a community garden

You can get support from http://cgireland.org/ or even apply for Energia 'Get Ireland Growing' funding from Grow It Yourself, e.g. clearing space for an inner-city community garden, putting a polytunnel on a school roof or creating a pond at an allotment.

Apply to become a Tidy Town

www.tidytowns.ie

Develop a biodiversity plan for the local area, including measures to encourage pollinating insects

See what has been achieved by Ennis Tidy Town:
http://ennistidytowns.com/project/wildlife/

Invite your supermarket to host an information day on packaging and to offer recycling points for packaging waste

See what Midleton Tidy Towns achieved: http://localprevention.ie/2013/04/08/midleton-event-on-alternate-environment-friendly-household-cleaning-agents/

Use the ‘See It Say It’ app from EPA to report pollution in the local area

This is something local people can get involved with in the reporting:
http://www.epa.ie/livegreen/myhomemycommunity

Sign up to the Sustainable Energy Community network

Your community can work towards becoming as energy efficient as possible:
https://www.seai.ie/sustainable-solutions/community-projects/community-network/

Make 'Wild' any green spaces within your local community

Consider wilding green spaces within your local community.

Work with local businesses to support them in their waste prevention, as well as raising awareness of hazardous waste and promote sustainable alternatives

Learn from what Carlow and Kilkenny county councils have created:
http://localprevention.ie/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/carlow-kilkenny-midres-2.pdf

Arrange a community workshop on recycling

Check out the Recycling Ambassador Programme from VOICE Ireland:
http://voiceireland.org/our-work/recycling-ambassador-programme/

Organise a monthly birdwatch or wildflower walk

For more information on free wildflower walks, visit: www.facebook.com/WildflowerWalksIreland. Birdwatch Ireland organise walks and other events on their website.

Link in with: https://www.foeeurope.org/natures-keepers
European network showcasing what it is that people love about nature in their local area – invite someone locally to contribute a video!

Draw attention to nature!

Organise a monthly bird watching morning/ wildflower walk/ other activity to draw attention to nature – if there is no one with local knowledge on these issues there are lots of online apps to assist with this!