The second meeting of the Kilkenny Economic Forum, an off-shoot of Future Proof Kilkenny, will take place this coming Thursday 25th March at 8pm in the Ormonde Hotel. All are welcome. The subject of this months meeting is local currencies, electronic loyalty schemes and liquidity networks. The purpose of the meeting is to inform about […]
Archive for March, 2010
Continuing with our love of all things fruity a grafting course will take place this Saturday 27th, 2pm-5pm at Michael Micklis’s Biodynamic farm in Raheen. Participants will learn how to graft heritage apple varieties onto root stock. If you have a favourite or rare variety that you wish to propagate bring along one foot of […]
It seems that the UK, at least, is finally waking up to the threat of Peak Oil. Sir David King, the UK Government’s former chief scientist has endorsed a new report by scientists and researchers from Oxford University that argue that official oil reserves are exaggerated by 1/3, should be downgraded from 1,350bn to 900bn […]
Each year across the globe Earth Hour is marked symbolically to awareness of the need to take action on climate change. This hour tries to highlight the carbon emmisions (and finances) saved by switching off all unneccessary lights and electrical equipment at night time. Earth Hour be celebrated globally on the 27th of March between […]
Farm Visit, Pilltown, Saturday 20th March, 2-4pm Michael Micklis will hold an open day at his organic farm in Pilltown on Saturday 20th March to mark the spring equinox and to outline his ideas for Community Supported Farms (CSAs) in Kilkenny. The idea of a CSA is that a number of families contribute at the […]