27th December, Ossory Youth Hall, New Street, 7:30pm It is a well known fact that reducing our consumption of meat is one of the easiest ways to lighten our demands on the planet. Meat productions requires far more energy, water and food (grain) than growing an equivalent amount of vegetables. On 27th December the Kilkenny […]
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Last Saturday (Dec 12) at 6pm people gathered on Mount Leinster as one of the Action against Climate Change events happening around the world that weekend. These events coencided with the midway point of the UN climate negotiations in Copenhagen and is an important mobilization moment for cities and communities around the world. See more […]
A Evening of Winter Fictions at Kilkenny Castle Thursday 10 December 6 – 10 pm Butler Gallery and Kilkenny Castle Make Belief is an event that combines storytelling, music and visual art in the atmospheric surrounds of the Butler Gallery and Kilkenny Castle. Curated by Kate Strain with the Butler Gallery, it promises to be […]
The upcoming COP15 meeting in Denmark—so named because it is the 15th such international gathering of the Conference of the Parties (COP) under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change—is, many believe, the world’s last chance to take decisive multi-lateral action on reducing greenhouse gas emissions substantially enough to ward off cataclysmic climate change. […]
Sunday 6th December , The Greenhouse, 17 St Andrews Street, Dublin 2 Cultivate are organising a “Transition Day” on Sunday 6th December in The Greenhouse (former Enfo building) to bring together members of existing Transition Towns and those wishing to get started in an afteroon of sharing and learning. The first session from 3-4pm will […]