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Submission on strategic risks facing Ireland
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Report on the 2019 Food for Thought / Lón Intinne workshop
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Submission on the Irish bioeconomy
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In this podcast we hear from people working on applying the cybernetician Stafford Beer’s Viable Systems Model in different domains, in order to help...
The Environmental Consequences of Monetary Dysfunction
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Dysfunction of the money-system underpins the problems of the world’s multiple converging crises. Discuss.
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