July 30th, 2019 Imagine nature coming back. Imagine experiencing nature, not as some lucky happenstance or occasional encounter, but as a wave that washes over you again and again. Imagine nature, not as something you have to travel halfway across the country to see, but within walking distance of your Read more…
July 22nd, 2019 On Saturday, activists from the Dublin Cycling Campaign, the Irish Pedestrian Network and the Dublin Commuters Coalition, supported by members of Extinction Rebellion, occupied South William Street, declaring it a Clean Air Zone from 10am until 7pm. The peaceful protest opened this normally highly congested street to Read more…
July 10th, 2019 Last May, a major UN biodiversity report gave a stark warning that nature is declining at unprecedented rates globally. Ireland’s National Biodiversity Conference Report lays bare the urgent challenges of protecting biodiversity nationally. In May, the Dáil committed to establishing a citizens’ assembly on biodiversity loss. What Read more…
June 6th, 2019 Forestry is poised to become a critical part of Ireland’s response to the climate crisis. The simple mantra goes ‘Trees are good’ and so planting more trees is a great idea. However, like everything in life, the truth is a little more nuanced than that. Trees do Read more…
June 6th, 2019 Earlier this year the ‘Farming Independent’, an off-shoot of the Irish Independent newspaper, declared that ‘Origin Green’, the marketing programme of state-body An Bord Bia, had failed to deliver for farmers. Since its inception in 2013, Origin Green has been the focus of environmental ire for its Read more…
May 31st, 2019 Last Friday, I was down in Lisdoonvarna for the global climate strike. The children in Mary Immaculate Secondary School were celebrating their win in the ECO-UNESCO Young Environmentalist competition. The entire town had mobilised – and many were out at 9am in the morning to march down Read more…
May 29th, 2019 The highlight of an otherwise drab European election debate on RTE’s Prime Time earlier this month was the ego-bruising putdown of our latest celeb-come-candidate Peter Casey by the fresh-faced green Saoirse McHugh. The Achill islander’s stinging rebuttal of Casey’s views on immigration made media waves as she Read more…
May 27th, 2019 The last time I saw Ciarán Cuffe, he was cycling away from a Keep it in the Ground anti-fossil fuel demonstration by the Clontarf Greens at Alfie Byrne Road. With a ‘Vote Cuffe’ poster sticking out of his panier, he cycled off to the next event in Read more…
May 25th, 2019 The green wave across European and local elections is a clear signal that Irish people want urgent action to tackle the climate and biodiversity crises. If the RTE/TG4 exit poll predictions hold firm, then the stand-out performance of the Green Party is a clear sign of the Read more…
May 17th, 2019 The Intergovernmental Panel on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service (IPBES) published its landmark global assessment on the state of the world’s biodiversity and ecosystem services last week. As National Biodiversity Week kicks off, the Director of the National Biodiversity Data Centre Dr Liam Lysaght shares with us his Read more…
