TV series turns up the heat on green issues

Talk of saving the planet by planting trees is all very well… but you can’t grow a native forest in your urban back yard or workplace – or can you? That is one of the questions posed as environmental series Heated returns for a second run on RTÉ1 on Tuesday, October 15, at 7pm.

In the series, farmer and journalist Hannah Quinn Mulligan, Lecturer in Environmental Geography Dr Michelle McKeown, and social entrepreneur and activist Ronan O’Dalaigh reveal how some people are doing amazing things to make our island a better place,

As well as the issue of planting trees, episode one explores how the farms of Ireland produce 40,000 tonnes of plastic waste each year. 

Once, this might have been burned on farms, but now a programme of recycling and the inventiveness of one County Clare innovator has created a perfect circular economy.

Plus, why isn’t every roof in Ireland covered in solar panels? The high up front cost is often quoted as a barrier, and lack of confidence can play a role as well. But what if a community could come together to get the best advice, and the best value. It could just give them the power they need to jump start a solar revolution.