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Monthly Archives: February 2009

Bantry Community Supported Agriculture

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Perhaps the most positive project to be initiated in this neck of the woods to promote local resilience in the face of global economic meltdown is the Bantry Community Supported Agriculture scheme. You can read about this in detail on Ivan McCutcheon’s excellent local food blog, Food Culture West Cork. Brainchild of John Dolan, a [...]

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Powerdown Toolkit #3: It’s All Connected

Monday, February 16, 2009

This is the introduction to the third week of the Powerdown Toolkit 10-week community learning course created by the Cultivate Centre in Dublin. It has an accompanying TV show with a 30-minute episode accompanying each week of the course, soon to be aired on Dublin Community TV. It’s All Connected: Whole Systems Thinking and Permaculture [...]

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Ben Goldacre, Jeni Barnett and MMR

Thursday, February 12, 2009

The controversy over the Jeni Barnett show and media irresponsibility  continues over at Bad Science. Here is a brief quotation given there from an interview with a nurse who phoned in to debate the issue on Jeni Barnett’s show: Yasmin: Well, you’d be surprised. And at the moment we are expecting a measles epidemic and [...]

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Deconstructing Climate Change Denialism

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Excellent post here on Skeptico unpacking in detail the kind of false arguments used by some to deny climate change. Really good analyses, very useful for all sorts of anti-scientific claims.

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From the BBC: “Rise in measles ‘very worrying’”

Saturday, February 7, 2009

From the BBC yesterday: “Measles cases in England and Wales rose by 36% in 2008, figures show… “Professor David Salisbury, director of immunisation at the Department of Health, said it was “irresponsible” for parents not to have their children vaccinated. He said: “I think it’s irrational, I think it’s putting children’s lives at risk. I [...]

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Powerdown Toolkit # 2: The Power of Community- Social Capital, Resilience and the Local Community

Thursday, February 5, 2009

This is the introduction to the second week of the Powerdown Toolkit 10-week community learning course created by the Cultivate Centre in Dublin. It has an accompanying TV show with a 30-minute episode accompanying each week of the course, soon to be aired on Dublin Community TV. Subject: “Community powerdown”. “Community” is often dismissed as [...]

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