Vipassana/Mindfulness Meditation Retreat, Kilkenny October 16/17 2010, 10.30-5pm at the Heritage Council Headquarters (Bishops Palace), Church Lane, Kilkenny. Cost: by Donation. Vipassana means ‘clear seeing’. Through observing our experience, from moment to moment, in the here and now, without immediately reacting to it or getting absorbed into it, we learn to develop mindfulness and awareness. […]
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Tuesday 28th September, Butler House, Patrick St., Kilkenny Future Proof Kilkenny continues its series of talks and workshops on environmental issues with a lecture from Vinay Gupta called “Through the looking Glass”. Vinay is co-author of “Winning the Oil Endgame” and speaks widely on the subject of peak oil and crisis management and is noted […]
Tuesday 21st September, 8pm, The Hole in The Wall, High St., Kilkenny Our first meeting of the autumn will take place in the historic “Hole in The Wall” building – soon to be venue for this year’s Green Screen. To kick off this season FPK members and friends will give a snapshot of the different […]
Interest has been expressed by a number of groups in recent months in community composting. Bernadette Moloney, Kilkenny Environment Officer has organized a workshop with leading composting expert, Craig Benton to run a workshop on Community Composting for interested groups. 21st of September 2010. 7.30pm in Hotel Kilkenny Community composting is a unit central to […]
Wednesday 4th August, 7:30pm, Butler House, Kilkenny We are delighted to welcome Nicole Foss to Kilkenny for a public lecture on the Financial Crisis and Peak Oil. Nicole writes under the pen name of “Stoneleigh” at The Automatic Earth about the inter-relationship of energy and finance with a focus on how individuals and communities can prepare […]