KCLR's Ours To Protect: Season 2 Episode 6 - Politics, policies and hope for the future

KCLR's Ours To Protect: Season 2 Episode 6 - Politics, policies and hope for the future

From KCLR's Ours To Protect by KCLR

October 30, 2025 · 34 min · Season 2 · Episode 6

About this episode

The final episode discusses environmental policies and hope for the future, featuring insights from local students and experts.

It's the final episode of Ours to Protect, KCLR's monthly environmental series, which has been led by the children and young people from across Carlow & Kilkenny. The pupils of Kilkenny-based Gaelscoil Osrai and School of the Holy Spirit, as well as Bunscoil McAuley Rice in Callan and St. Brigid’s National School in Bagenalstown, have been asking questions and sharing their thoughts on a range of topics from biodiversity & fast fashion to food waste and travel and transport and lots more, with experts answering and addressing what they've raised. For our last outing, the focus is on policies to ensure our environment is protected, and we ask whether there's any hope for the future. We'll also hear from students at Kilkenny College, where we installed a device to capture the sounds of wildlife and nature as part of a collaboration with metaLAB Harvard Climate Institute for Climate and Sound, which aims to map climate change through sound.

People in this episode

Host: KCLR

Topics covered

  • environmental policies
  • biodiversity
  • fast fashion
  • food waste
  • travel and transport
  • youth engagement

Keywords

  • environment
  • youth
  • climate change
  • biodiversity
  • food waste
  • fast fashion
  • transport

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Gaelscoil Osrai, School of the Holy Spirit, Bunscoil McAuley Rice, St. Brigid’s National School, Kilkenny College, metaLAB Harvard Climate Institute

Places: Carlow, Kilkenny

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