Engaging Citizens in Community Led Transitions: conference, Sept 22 2017
An Taisce, Feasta, the Green Foundation Ireland and Cultivate are co-ordinating a conference on
ENGAGING CITIZENS IN COMMUNITY LED TRANSITIONS
Friday 22nd September – 10.00 –...
The climate crisis as seen by the economics mainstream
Mainstream economics frames the climate crisis in a particular way but this approach is not at all helpful. There have been a variety of...
Two events about basic income, Sept 16 and Oct 7
‘Work: What’s Basic Income Got To Do With It?’
Sat, Sept 16th, 2017 from 1000 – 1600 in Dublin at the Carmelite Community Centre, Aungier...
CapGlobalCarbon submission to the Citizens’ Assembly on climate
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Introduction
CapGlobalCarbon (CGC)’s proposal to the Citizen’s Assembly would enable Ireland to completely eliminate its fossil fuel production and imports...
Feasta submission to the Citizens’ Assembly on climate
Feasta welcomes this opportunity to make a submission to the Citizen’s Assembly on how the State can make Ireland a leader in tackling climate...
Stability and sharing: basic income in history
During a visit to Amsterdam last year, I was struck by the huge throngs of people from all over the world visiting the Vincent...
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...
Stop Climate Chaos event: Dinner with Darwin, July 22
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King Donald and his Court
Democracy is participative
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Negative Emissions Technologies: Curse or Salvation?
Barry McMullin, who prepared this presentation, is involved an Dublin City University-based project that examines the potential for Negative Emissions Technologies (NETs) in Ireland....
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