7 July 2020 Over the past few months, as an avid birdwatcher and citizen scientist, I have recorded a plethora …
Human beings are not a virus
June 4th, 2020 Fintan O’Toole likened human beings to a ‘toxic virus’, and a ‘relentless foulness’ from ‘the Earth’s point …
The Circular Economy in the Recovery
June 3rd, 2020 We were all caught off guard by the Covid-19 pandemic, and the plastics industry was no different. …
Closed Season: lay down your trimmers and step away from the hedge
February 28th, 2020 Last May, TCD and UCD were found cutting trees and hedges on their campuses during the closed …
General Election 2020 – the ‘necessity of left unity’
February 4th, 2020 Much has been said recently about the need for unity across the wide spectrum of left politics …
An Election Fable: Eamon, the Suckler and the Mislaid Climate
January 28th, 2020 Energised as a party, as deputy Catherine Martin put it at the launch of the Green’s election …
Kill Bill: Access to Justice under threat by planning proposals
January 27th, 2020 During the closing months of its tenure, the outgoing Government proposed a Bill that would have left …
Mitigate, Adapt, or Suffer – the stark choices we face in Election 2020
January 24th, 2020 General Election 2020 must be the ‘Climate Election’. As the global climate and biodiversity emergency deepens, it …
General Election 2020 – a wake-up call for environmentalists
January 23rd, 2020 Voters don’t care about the environment. There, I said it. And I wouldn’t have believed it until …
‘We are all in the same climate boat in stormy seas’
January 14th, 2020 Yesterday, Storm Brendan swept across Ireland. While far from unusual for us West Coast dwellers to be …