Feasta Annual Report 2022
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First steps towards CapGlobalCarbon: potential partner countries and useful programmes
This is a brief overview of research carried out by CapGlobalCarbon intern Paul Faisant over the summer of 2018, in which he explored the...
Mismodelling human beings – “rational economic men” in love, politics and everyday life
This chapter explores the assumptions about human nature on which mainstream economics is based. The description of “rational economic man” ignores most psychological and...
Ireland continues on its grotesquely unjust and irresponsible trajectory with regard to climate change
According to media reports on the EU’s environmental council meeting yesterday, Ireland has yet again been pleading for, and receiving, special treatment with regard...
Three generations left: human activity and the destruction of the planet: review
The author of this book, Dr Christine Parkinson, was first inspired to write about climate change while visiting social missions organised by women around...
Feasta annual report 2017
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Journey to Earthland: review by Mark Garavan
Journey to Earthland by Paul Raskin is an unusual work. It is not primarily an analysis of our present predicament or of our likely...
Bridging the Gaps 2023: podcasts on ecology, health, well-being….
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Seán Ó Conláin
In our Bridging the Gaps podcast series, the hosts, Seán O’Conláin and Caroline Whyte, explore a range of topics with guests...
Diary of a baby-boomer nobody
Patrick Noble describes the "world of unspoken commons" he experienced in 1970s Wales when he was establishing himself as a farmer there, "untouched by...
A Short Walk Through Commons, Enclosures and the EU
"Without oil, it is essential to revive the dexterity, ingenuity and moral probity of the commons," writes Patrick Noble, "The springs are not entirely...
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