Feidhlim Harty

About Feidhlim Harty

Féidhlim Harty is an environmental consultant and writer. His company, FH Wetland Systems, established in 1996, offers designs and guidance on waterway repair and rewilding, eco-friendly wastewater treatment training and education, and holistic land-use management for catchment protection and regeneration. His most recent book is Towards Zero Waste - How to Live a Circular Life.

Website: http://www.wetlandsystems.ie
Feidhlim Harty has written 5 articles so far, you can find them below.

Critical Raw Materials: Irish Waste Advisory Group Update

Feidhlim Harty emphasises the need to minimise the extraction of critical raw materials, to ensure that the materials are used as responsibly as possible, and to ensure that miners' rights are respected.

Healthy Habitats to address climate breakdown

"Whereas carbon savings offer only abstract feedback images of graphs and charts, habitat restoration immediately provides beautiful places to visit, living trees and other plants and animals to watch and enjoy, as well as near-term tangible benefits," writes Feidhlim Harty.

Closed loop agriculture for environmental enhancement: returning biomass nutrients from humanure and urine to agriculture

This report by Féidhlim Harty argues that closed-loop agriculture would not only stop the waste of nutrients to watercourses as pollution, it would also stop the high energy inputs needed for artificial nitrogen production, would enhance biodiversity, and could go a significant way towards reducing overall agricultural greenhouse gas emissions.

Draft report: Promoting Closed Loop Agricultural Practices for Biodiversity Enhancement

We welcome comments on this draft report which has been submitted to the Irish Environmental Network by Feidhlim Hardy, on behalf of Feasta.

Sustainable Water Use

How can we break our water supply's current dependency on fossil fuels ? Feidhlim Harty provides some suggestions at the local, community and wider levels.

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