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culture sector and local authority arts offices as a necessity contribute to the State’s 2017 National Mitigation Plan proposal to establish regional climate action offices in 2018, and to; •
explore the potential for partnership with third-level education institutions, sustainability organisations and leaders, eco-villages, and eco-art practitioners and eco-social art researchers, to communicate a programme of ecoliteracy for art workers, via an accessible, online learning platform (as in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) to thereby offer immediate, accessible eco-education for the whole art sector; to include planetary boundary science, ethics and moral reasoning, eco-social art practice examples and research.
for County Carlow’s art institutions and creative organisations: •
although not a legal requirement in Ireland, this report encourages local cultural institutions and creative organisations to explore and adopt energy and material audits developed by Julie’s Bicycle and Creative Carbon Scotland; as a means to reduce energy and environmental costs, and thereby inspire Carlow communities with locally realised examples of sustainability.
and to Carlow creative practitioners:
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familiarise yourself with art and sustainability information for your creative discipline from the Julie’s bicycle and Creative Carbon Scotland websites
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some may be interested in deeper, long term eco-social art practices; there are some recent publications, websites; also, the developing environmental humanities discipline can be a good source of critical information.