Save Irish Forests
Here we go again. First our fossil fuel resources, now our forests. Have these people no shame or sense of history? Taken …
CLAIMING OUR FUTURE
CLAIMING OUR FUTURE Saturday 30th October 2010 Demand for maximum income to cut gap between rich and poor emerges at Ireland’s first …
Sylvia Earle’s TED Prize Wish
Legendary ocean researcher Sylvia Earle shares astonishing images of the ocean – and shocking stats about its rapid decline – as she …
Feis Teamhar: A Turn at Tara
The Tara Campaigns organised on the 24th of August 2008, a ‘Feis Teamhar’ : A ‘Turn at Tara’ to highlight the ongoing …
The Girl Who Silenced the World at the UN
Born and raised in Vancouver, Severn Suzuki has been working on environmental and social justice issues since kindergarten. At age 9, she …
Get to Go to the Shell AGM
hello! spring is here… and the Shell AGM approaches in May. We have 6 shell shares to give away! You must be …
Doris Lessing, Al Gore and UN Climate Panel win Nobels
Doris Lessing has won the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature. Her citation reads: The Nobel Prize in Literature 2007 “that epicist of …
Celebrate the Spirit and the Earth in a Yurt at the DL Fest of World Cultures
My pal Christine Clear is someone who thinks outside the box. Next weekend, she will think inside a Yurt in Dun Laoghaire. …
Literature and the Environment
Just about a year ago, Patrick Chapman and I set up an experiment called Irish Literary Revival. As we put it in …
Earth seen from 4 billion miles away
On a day when the world’s media is consumed with the unintended decapitation, rather than the “civilized” hanging of a former tyrant, …
On the Anniversary of Ken Saro Wiwa’s Death, the Gardaí baton-charge protestors in North Mayo
There were nasty scenes in North Mayo early this morning, when the Gardaí (Irish Police) baton-charged local residents and supporters when they …
World Moves into Ecological Overdraft Today
Humanity slides into the red today and begins racking up an ecological overdraft driven by unsustainable exploitation of the world’s resources, according …
Country: Ireland
Yes, I know,the eyes just glaze over when people bang on about what we are doing to the earth. Every now and …
“Near-Meltdown” in Swedish Nuclear Power Plant
Currently, half of Sweden’s nuclear reactors are idle, but it’s not because of the 1980 referendum in which Swedish citizens asked for …
The Olive Oil Computer
Researchers at the University of Toronto have created a semiconductor device that outperforms today’s conventional chips — and they made it simply …
The nuclear proponents are at it again
Emmet Oliver in The Irish Times reports that just 20 years after the Chernobyl disaster, a group of scientists, businessmen and academics …