Monday 21st June, 12pm, Castle Park To celebrate our acheivements over the last year in the 400 Fruit Tree project and to remember the lives of Susie Long, Barbara Gill, Avril Duffy (Kilkenny Earthwatch group) and Steve Clayton (late husband of Tisha Warner – 400 Fruit Tree project) a stone plaque will be unveiled at […]
Archive for June, 2010
Peak Oil and the collapse of global finance are a “perfect storm” of converging phenomena that threaten to sink our age of prosperity through wealth destruction and propel us into a second Great Depression. Stoneleigh, editor of the popular financial blog “The Automatic Earth“, describes in the podcast below how our current financial system is […]
2pm – 11pm, Friday 18th June, Raheen, Piltown The “Fairy-Playground” is Kilkenny’s first Community Supported Farm iniative, or CSA, that is being set up by Michael Micklis of the Biodynamic Association. The Farm is set in the beautiful rolling hills of Piltown and consists of Heritage Orchards, Cereal crops, Vegetable gardens and Polytunnels. On Friday […]
John Gibbons leads a discussion with Minister Ciaran Cuffe, David Korowicz from FEASTA (The Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability) and ASPO Ireland Director (The Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas), Richard O’Rourke, on the ramifications of Peak Oil and what we can and should be doing to prepare for it. This […]