The EU Environmental Implementation Review – Ireland
In May 2016, the Commission launched the Environmental Implementation Review (EIR), an analysis over a period of two years aimed at improving the implementation...
Heritage Bill – Two steps forward, one step back?
The Heritage Bill 2016 has passed the final stage of the Seanad and will soon be brought to the Dáil for further debate. ...
Limits to economic growth?
This lecture was presented at the University of Nottingham on April 4, 2017. Please click on the slides to enlarge them.
On April 3 in...
“Realise a community park in the Liberties” – Dublin’s newest inner city park needs...
April 18th 2017
Consultation is being sought by the Bridgefoot Street Park Campaign group for a park at the derelict site on Bridgefoot Street.
Members of...
Heritage Bill: ‘Regressive’ amendment further loosens hedge cutting restrictions
April 15th 2017
Senators have warned that a last-minute “regressive” amendment to further loosen restrictions on hedge cutting spells danger for our wildlife as the...
Limits to Incentives
Means of exchange are never neutral as orthodox economists assume. Intentional Currencies* respond by being explicit about the values they seek to promote and...
Failing to plan means planning for failure: Irish GHGs continue to climb
Today’s announcement by the Environment Protection Agency (EPA) set out Ireland’s staggering catalogue of failure in grasping the challenge of climate change and the...
Ireland to miss emissions targets without policy shift, EPA report
Ireland will fail to meet its upcoming emissions targets if the State continues to rely on current climate policies, according to a new report...
From Wasteland to Parkland. Kildare granted €4.5million to transform a landfill into a park
April 13th 2017
4.5 million euro has been made available to turn a 75 acre landfill site at Kerdiffstown, just outside Naas, into a public park.
Kildare...
“When the spade sinks into gravelly ground: My father, digging. I look down” –...
April 13th 2017
Seamus Heaney, along with a plethora of Irish artists have highlighted the Irish landscape as being paramount in creating, analyzing and solidifying the substance...
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