Bringing airborne plastic pollution down to earth
What goes up, must eventually come down again, and so it is with helium balloons, a pernicious form of pollution that rarely receives the...
A 15-minute walk on the wild side
There is no idea too moderate or sensible that conspiracy theorists can’t tar as a Marxist plot to turn us all into slaves in...
Podcast: Community Wealth Building and the next economic system
Caroline Whyte
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...
Violent words beget violent actions
By and large, Ireland is a tolerant country, spared the worst excesses of polarisation that have blighted post-Brexit Britain and the US after Trump....
Oil giants struggle to wash blood off their hands
It may be making more money than ever, but the fossil fuel industry is rapidly losing whatever semblance of social licence it could still...
Submission on the Irish National Risk Assessment’s Draft List of Strategic Risks 2023
We welcome the opportunity to contribute to this consultation, particularly since it arises from the Department of the Taoiseach’s recognition of the need to...
Watch out for quick-fix climate techno solutions
Decades of abject failure to curb carbon emissions has left us in a perilous situation as global climate destabilisation begins to bite in earnest....
There’s no vaccine for the greenhouse effect
The future is an Undiscovered Country. Things are done differently there. For those who follow the science of the climate and ecological crisis, it’s...
Oh! What a Lovely War for fossil fuel profiteers
While 2022 may have been the year when full-scale war returned to Europe for the first time since 1945, with massive spikes in energy...
Best of times, worst of times
The annual ritual of seeing whether the famous Doomsday Clock moves closer to or further from midnight took a worrying turn this year, as...
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