EDIBLE FOREST GARDENS One-day workshop June 5th 2010 10.30am -4.30pm with Graham Strouts Derryduff Mor, Coomhola, Bantry Come and enjoy a day at Graham’s Permaculture Plot in the beautiful Coomhola valley, near Bantry, to learn how to design an edible permaculture food forest with perennial vegetables and ground covers, trees, bamboos and fruit bushes, and [...]
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Saturday, January 9, 2010
After three weeks of sub-zero temperatures and snow and ice in many parts, Ireland, like much of the rest of Europe, is experiencing considerable difficulty in continuing its post-industrial lifestyle. Supplies of salt for the roads are stretched, and also gas supplies with industry being told to use coal or oil instead. So far the [...]
I am honoured to be included amongst some very illustrious and far more deserving names onto John Gibbons’ list of Those Making a Difference in 2009. From the Irish Times Dec. 24th 2009. Full text below. Seasonal salute to those making a difference A mix of new voices and seasoned campaigners – here is a [...]
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Saturday, January 2, 2010
Jehovah! Jehovah! Jehovah! The Atheist blogroll is a community building service provided free of charge to Atheist bloggers from around the world. If you would like to join, visit Mojoey at Deep Thoughts for more information. Ill add in the blogroll to my sidebar once i figure out how to do it. That seems the [...]
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Monday, December 14, 2009
Probably only friends and people who know me well will know that before I became interested in gardening and all things permacultural I was in fact a passionate chessplayer. This is way back in my youth, when for a few years while still at school I filled most of my free time studying chess books [...]
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I just listened to the debate on the Pat Kenny show on Wednesday between Australian mining magnate and climate change denier Ian Pilmer and Irish Times journalist Pat Kenny. It is really hard to know whether Kenny is as ignorant on the subject of climate change as he makes out or whether he to is [...]
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Thanks to Tom for sending me the link to this essential reading from Ireland’s premier green economist Richard Douthwaite in Construct Ireland Magazine. Douthwaite explains the state of the world and Irish economy with reference to the housing bubble and declining fossil energy reserves. The predictions are fairly grim- stop paying into a pension, they [...]
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Tuesday, November 10, 2009
The new online journal Forth has an article by Lenni Antonelli who interviewed me on the subject of pseudoscience and the environmental movement.
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Welcome to the first Zone5 Podcast! These are likely to come out rather irregularly but I might manage one a month or so. Albert Bates at the charcoal barrel at Cloughjordan Eco-village, August 2009 This first podcast is with Albert Bates of The Farm, Tennessee, who I interviewed in back in August . Albert talks [...]
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Thursday, October 22, 2009
My eye was caught this morning by a story in the Grauniad recounting the death of three people after a new Age sweat lodge in northern Arizona: According to local police, at 3pm on Thursday 8 October – the final day of the retreat, and following a buffet meal to break their fast – more [...]
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