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Bill McKibben (350.org) and Naomi Klein (The Shock Doctrine) give their view on the failure of the COP15 talks.
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 details on 350.org
It was a beautifully clear night with the sky full of stars powered by the sun and the valley below full of lights powered by coal /oil burning generators.
Cathy Fitzgearld took some great shots and thanks to Martin Lyttle for organising the event.
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 a unique evening of seasonal superstition and nostalgia, played out through spoken word and musical performance.
Listen to stories about Kilkenny and about Christmas unraveled by artists, musicians and authors, and get a chance to view our current exhibition Kilkenny: An Artists Celebration, in a new light.
6pm
Hot whiskey reception with chance to view Kilkenny: An Artists’ Celebration and a series of screenings by artist and filmmaker Michael Fortune in the corridor outside the Gallery.
6.30pm
‘Make Belief’ Readings (Butler Gallery)
Readings by writers Luke Sheehan (from his new story based on superstitions in Kilkenny), Stephen Buck and Marian O’Neill (extracts from The Quiet Quarter), and award-winning author Claire Keegan (short story Night of the Quicken Trees, from her book Walk the Blue Fields). Booking Recommended.
6.30pm
‘Breaking Bread’ (Castle Kitchen)
Kilkenny’s first Breaking Bread event, where participants have the chance to bring their own tales to the table. Places limited. Booking essential. Phone Kate on 0863426851
6.30pm
Endangered Studios Talk (Parade Tower)
Artists Etaoin Holahan and Richard Coghlan give an illustrated talk about the origins and motivations of Endangered Studios, while Patrick O’Connor talks about the importance and nature of the artist’s studio in general. Booking recommended.
8.30pm ‘til late
Music in the Kitchen (Castle Kitchen)
from Rory Grubb, IXO, Vickers Vimy, Odessa and the Wheelwright, and The River Valley Band.
Admission Free. All welcome. Please call the Butler Gallery on 056 7761106 or email jean@butlergallery.com for more information and to book places.
I think it was Colin Campbell who first coined the term “Energy Slaves”. The concept derives from equating how much human muscle power we would need to harness in order to replace what we currently get from fossil fuels. Quite a lot as it turns out. In this BBC documentary a standard house is powered, not from the national grid, but from a team of cyclists pedalling furiously in a warehouse next door.
Great news. Global warming is a hoax! Despite the fact that our work has been a terrible waste of time, not to mention that of thousands of scientists, politicians and activists throughout the world, we can all rest easy now that burning fossil fuels isn’t affecting the climate.
Just think. No more guilt about flying. No more angst about leaving the lights on. No more fretting over food miles or worrying about the size of your carbon footprint. This is cause for celebration! Forget Copenhagen. Christmas shipping in New York anyone?
