What edible perennial is guaranteed slug-proof, completely hardy in Ireland, grows into an elegant screen, can be used as a climbing support for your beans and also will feed your pet Pandas? The answer to this can only be bamboo, one of the most exciting and beautiful plants you could grow. But isn’t bamboo invasive? [...]
When local West Cork Bee Guru Tim Rowe booked the a hall in Bantry a couple of weeks ago for a talk by Mary Coffey from the Oak Park Research Centre in Carlow, he hadn’t quite bargained on the huge amount of local interest. The chairs in the small room booked for the talk quickly [...]
George Lee’s RTE documentary “Future Shock: the End of the Oil Age” was shown this evening on TV and is most notable perhaps for being a breakthrough into the mainstream Irish media. Though by no means the first such coverage- RTE radio did an excellent series of short pieces with Philip Boucher-Hayes last year- it [...]
Following on from the last post on the incongruity of hearing David Strahan talk about his book on peak oil on the radio, I can scarcely open a publication without reading about the subject in one form or another. My favorite newspaper The London Independent carried a front page story on A World Without Oil [...]
I am getting great mileage out of my Freeplay wind-up/solar radio these days, and it makes a great companion even in the garden. I had a visit from Klaus, a permaculture student and member of Transition Towns Kinsale, who was giving me a hand. Although I have complained that just because it is solar the [...]
A story in the Irish Independent last week “Ireland on the verge of an oil and gas bonanza” referred to claims by the Petroleum Affairs Division of the Department of Communications, Marine and Natural Resources, that “there is at least 10 billion barrels of oil lying off the west coast Ireland – which has a [...]