Category Archives: climate change

Ariane Sherine on The Pod Delusion #11

Posted on 29 November 2009 by Graham

This week’s Pod Delusion features a fascinating interview with the wonderful Ariane Sherine, creator of the Atheist Bus campaign and editor of the one essential Christmas gift this year, The Atheists’ Guide to Christmas. The Atheists’ Guide is a brilliant … Continue reading →

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Now is the Winter of our Discontent

Posted on 26 November 2009 by Graham

The flooding was so bad around the city and county of cork last week that I was wondering whether I would actually be able to travel to Kinsale on Tuesday to do my comradely duty and picket the college. As … Continue reading →

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Pat Kenny joins the climate change deniers

Posted on 24 November 2009 by Graham

From the Irish Times by John Gibbons: Pat Kenny, the premier Irish broadcaster famed for his grasp of current affairs has recently stated: “The climate change debate has been raging for decades, and there are still so many fundamental questions … Continue reading →

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The Mockery of Evidence-based Science

Posted on 23 July 2009 by Graham

Brilliant article here by John Gibbons in The Times making the same point that I have been making, linking climate change denial with Quackery and other types of pseudoscience. When science is reduced to a game, anyone can play. Scientists … Continue reading →

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The Transition Timeline

Posted on 29 June 2009 by Graham

Book Review: The Transition Timeline for  a local, resilient future Shaun Chamberlin Forward by Rob Hopkins 190 pp pbk Chelsea Green 2009 The follow-up to Rob Hopkins’ seminal The Transition Handbook uses the method of “backcasting” from an envisioned  future … Continue reading →

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Future Scenarios

Posted on 11 June 2009 by Graham

Book Review- Future Scenarios How Communities Can adapt to Peak Oil and Climate Change David Holmgren Chelsea Green 2009 When I first saw David Holmgren’s Future Scenarios talk and slide at a permaculture design course in Slovenia in 2005 I … Continue reading →

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Powerdown Toolkit

Posted on 22 January 2009 by Graham

Over the past year or so I have been working with Davie Philip of Cultivate on the Skilling Up for Powerdown program, a learning resource in support of Transition Initiatives in Ireland. The course has been run in Dublin and … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Plan C

Posted on 21 November 2008 by Graham

Plan C: Community Survival Strategies for Peak oil and Climate Change Pat Murphy New Society 2008 Pat Murphy is the Executive Director of Community Solutions who produced the seminal film “The Power Of Community” which charts Cuba’s transition to a … Continue reading →

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A visit to the Eden Project

Posted on 15 August 2008 by Graham

The Eden Project in Cornwall was established 7 years ago and has become a world famous visitor attraction with its iconic huge bubble-wrap domes providing the closest you’ll get to an experience of the rain-forest this side of the Amazon. … Continue reading →

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Climate Swindles

Posted on 22 July 2008 by Graham

Al Gore’s film “An Inconvenient Truth” seemed to bring to a close some of the misinformation about climate science. A small coterie of climate skeptics- not scientists themselves- had managed to hold the planet to ransom by claiming to represent … Continue reading →

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