Dr. Colin Campbell to Speak at Murroe Community Expo

This year the Murroe Community Expo, to be held March 2-4, 2012, will host a very special guest and keynote lecturer, Dr. Colin Campbell. Dr. Campbell is the founder of ASPO, the Association for the Study of Peak Oil and a foremost authority on the world’s depleting oil and gas supply. Read more.

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Welcome back to the Greens, but cut out the woolly talk

The contribution of the Green Party has never been more important to our society, writes Eamon Delaney, Sunday Independent

Greens may yet have another 30 years

Irish Examiner

BASF tries (again) to push ‘Frankenpotatoes’ on Europe

(NaturalNews) Europeans have made it abundantly clear time and time again that they want nothing to do with genetically-modified organisms (GMOs). But chemical giant BASF refuses to take no for an answer, and is once again pushing for EU approval of a “Frankenpotato” known as Fortuna that, if approved, would represent the EU’s second new legalized GMO in more than a decade. Read more

OECD warns of catastrophic climate change

UNLESS DECISIVE action is taken by governments, global greenhouse emissions are set to double over the next 40 years, resulting in catastrophic climate change, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development warned yesterday. Read more

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The capitalist environmentalist and the price of nature

The bill for ignoring nature’s services may not be affordable if we don’t start paying now, says ‘total capitalist’ and environmentalist Pavan Sukhdev

‘THE BELIEF that private financial markets can solve all our problems is the witchcraft of our age

Full article – Irish Times / TEEB Website

Conference: Reviving Rural Rail

Sustainable Tourism > More visitors by train > More income for the local line and for local businesses > Better rail services in future

Abbey Court Hotel, Nenagh, Co.Tipperary. Friday 17th – Sunday 19th June 2011.

More information.

CLAIMING OUR FUTURE – ‘Reducing Income Inequality’

A national discussion, NUI, Galway,  on 28th May 2011,  Registration 10.00 am. Registration & more information

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