Author: Feidhlim Harty
Critical raw materials: Irish waste advisory group update
Report for Feasta on April 27, 2023 The most recent meeting of the Waste Advisory Group to the Dept of Environment, Climate and Communications (DECC) examined forthcoming waste legislation; a presentation on the proposed Critical Raw Materials Act; and an outline of the Green Public Procurement Strategy and Action Plan. My attention was particularly drawn by the…
Ponds for farms and communities, step by step – video with Green Foundation Ireland
Posted on 24 Apr 2023 by Green Foundation Ireland, in this talk Feidhlim Harty gives an overview of pond design and construction to help landowners and local communities create new ponds. Ponds provide valuable habitat for wildlife as well as beautiful areas to walk near and watch nature. We explore siting, sizing, shape, edge slope,…
Healthy Habitats to address climate breakdown
Published by Feasta on February 23rd, 2022 (https://www.feasta.org/2022/02/23/healthy-habitats/) & updated February 2023. Underlying the discussions about carbon levels and energy efficiency is another, arguably much more important issue that tends to take second place in both policy and activism. The issue is that of healthy habitats. It is healthy soil that provides the ability to grow…
Interview on Heart to Hearth: Chats about Irish Vernacular Buildings
Click here to hear the podcast December 26th, 2022 | 44:35 Episode Summary In this episode, we chat with Feidhlim Harty. Feidhlim is an environmental consultant based in County Clare. In today’s chat, we look at some sustainable solutions for treating waste water from rural domestic buildings, and chat about Feidhlim’s own experiences renovating a…
Looking at climate change through the lens of water
Interview with Bridget Ginnity in the Clare Champion July 17th 2022 (link below). Féidhlim Harty, director of an environmental consultancy company tells Bridget Ginnity, how being a bad windsurfer led him to specialising in reed bed system design and other eco-friendly sewage options. Feidhlim Harty at his farm pond where he grows wetland plants and…
Towards zero waste – interview with Drew Pearlman
Link to podcast (Apr 9, 2022): https://www.drewpearlman.com/?powerpress_pinw=784-podcast. Féidhlim Harty is a writer and director of an environmental consultancy company specializing in reed bed and other eco-friendly sewage options. He is the author of various books such as Get Rid of Your Bin, Septic Tank Options and Alternatives as well as Toward Zero Waste: How to…
The call of the wild
Féidhlim Harty tracks the principle of succession in a wild garden. First published on Nov 22, 2021 in Horticulture Connected (link below). We bought our house in 2008, just as the housing bubble was at its most inflated. I’d never really wanted to move, but it had been on the cards and now it was…
Pond design and construction for The Hare’s Corner – youtube
Posted by Burrenbeo Trust on 18 Nov 2021 for the participants on the Hare’s Corner project (https://burrenbeo.com/thc/).
River Corridors Connecting Nature
First published in Horticulture Connected on May 19, 2021. Link below. Féidhlim Harty explores the boundless potential of and benefits from creating river corridors throughout our countryside Perfect Storm Globally we are in a perfect storm; and I’m not referring to the Covid pandemic. On many different levels, Earth’s health indices are at critical levels….