At the Cloughjordan EcoVillage, North Tipperary Permaculture is very much at the heart of the transition town movement. It is a holistic approach to the design of settlements and communities that looks at food , waste, housing, energy, water, education and employment and how these aspects of society can be provided for sustainably from within […]
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Friends of the Earth will be in the Garter Lane Arts Centre in Waterford next Tuesday the 12th of May at 7.30pm as part of their road show of climate change talks happening around the country this spring. The talks are titled “The Big Ask: Can we stop climate change?” and are part of a […]
Transition Carlow kicks off next week on 5th May with a mini-series of three events exploring the potential of the local community. The primary aim at this stage is to bring to the surface local people and organisations who might want to be part of Transition Carlow in order to develop community responses to the […]
One in four mouthfuls of food are pollinated by bees. Einstein once famously calculated that if bees were eliminated from the planet we would have only 4 years to live! So, given their importance in the cycle of life and to raise awareness of the threats to bees, Michael Miklis of the Biodynamic Association (also […]
FEASTA, the Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability, have been ringing the alarm bell on Peak Oil for many years. With conferences such as “What will we eat when the oil runs out” and “Peak Oil: The End of Economic Growth?” they have never shied away from exposing the worst case scenarios and asking the […]