Derry group organising series of events to look at racial equality in Northern Ireland
North West Migrants Forum programme to start next month
Lilian Seenoi-Barr from the North West Migrants Forum.
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A Derry-based group will next month launch a series of events to give people the opportunity to discuss racial equality.
On February 6, the North West Migrants Forum (NWMF) will launch its first series of a year-long programme Choose to Challenge events in partnership with Belfast Islamic Centre and iAssist Northern Ireland.
The free online events have been organised to find meaningful pathways for representation and reclaim voices of Black and Minority Ethnic people in civic and public spaces .
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As governments rush to jump-start their economies, there is a danger that important lessons for how to retrofit homes will be lost in the rush to build. But there is a better way, writes Dr Peter Rickaby.
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I wrote in my last column about how lockdown provided a glimpse of a more sustainable future. I also predicted a battle between those who want to put everything back exactly as it was, and those who want us to learn lessons for sustainability. We are now in the battle of the three Bs: for bankers, business bosses and politicians it’s ‘build, build, build’, but for others it’s ‘build back better’. In between there are a lot of people who just want their jobs and social lives b
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Offaly company leading the way on home energy retrofits in Ireland and further afield
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An Offaly company is leading the way on home energy retrofits in a cross border project.
Based in Birr, Grant is Ireland’s leading heating technology manufacturer and it is supporting the Ulster University and the Northern Ireland Housing Executive (NIHE) in their RULET – Rural-Led Energy Transition – initiative aimed at reducing or eliminating the risk of low-income households being left behind in the transition to clean, smart, integrated energy systems.
The RULET initiative is part of the SPIRE 2 (Storage Platform for the Integration of Renewable Energy) project which is a €6.7m EU-funded Interreg VA, cross border project which aims to evaluate, develop, and facilitate the wide-scale deployment of consumer-owned energy storage technologies, to operate profitably in the changing energy markets in Ireland and the UK.