the GROW network: Guzzler

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Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Guzzler at The National Museum!

Energy saving and exploding science experiments with guzzler at the National Museum this week:-)

Meet GROW...Lucy Bell

Lucy Bell is an organic horticulturalist and community artist from Kildare. Lucy is co-author of 'The Year Round Organic School Garden' with Kerry Earth Education Project and irish Seedsavers, which specialises in aiding schools set up organic school gardens. Lucy is a heritage specialist for the 'heritage in Schools' scheme, and has been setting up organic school gardens for over 5 years now with KEEP in Kerry and with GROW in Kildare. Lucy is also a facilitator with Sustianable Energy Authority of Ireland, facilitating priimary and secondary school education workshops based on climate change and energy efficiency .

Meet GROW...Pat Bell

Pat Bell is a mechanical engineer with over 30 years experience in sustainable energy. As a founder director of ENTRAC (1996-2009) he worked mainly for the European Commission on sustainable transport projects. While in the Irish Energy Centre he pioneered the introduction of energy issues into Irish schools. He is currently striving to achieve zero carbon status for his house which has one of the few grid connected photovoltaic (PV) systems in the country (see posts of July 16, 2012 and March 27, 2012 respectively).

He is an active member of Birdwatch Ireland, Bat Conservation Ireland and Butterfly Conservation Ireland (see post of March 4, 2012) in addition to working on his award winning biodiversity suburban garden.

This is Pat's new blog: https://therecordingbellandthebutterfly.wordpress.com/