April 10th 2017 Ireland’s ecovillage capital and rural utopia, Cloughjordan, played host to Cultivate’s Feeding Ourselves festival over the weekend. The focus of the event was how we should treat our soil and the benefits of healthy soil on our food, health and environment. A Citizens’ soil proclamation was launched Read more…
3rd April 2017 Last week, we looked at the growth and success of Ireland’s first eco-village in Cloughjordan, Tipperary. On Saturday and Sunday, Cultivate will be hosting their annual Feeding Ourselves festival at the eco-village. It promises to be a great weekend of good company, food and drink, interesting talks, Read more…
29th March 2017 Easter Rising patriot and Cloughjordan native, Thomas MacDonagh, once referred to his home town as “the calm of middle country.” The village does indeed hold that noble air of an enchanted gem of a rural backwater, hidden away in unspoilt tranquility and apathetic towards the trials and Read more…
[cs_content][cs_section parallax=”false” style=”margin: 0px;padding: 45px 0px;”][cs_row inner_container=”true” marginless_columns=”false” style=”margin: 0px auto;padding: 0px;”][cs_column fade=”false” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/1″ style=”padding: 0px;”][cs_text class=”cs-ta-right”]Image: Justin Byrne 1st November 2016[/cs_text][cs_text]The looming reality of climate change requires a cultural change as immense as that of the Neolithic or Industrial revolutions. But this future is an opportunity Read more…
Ireland’s only ecovillage, Cloughjordan in Tipperary, is to be the venue of an exciting workshop exploring the potential of a cutting-edge local currency technology.
The innovative workshop -‘Blockchain and Sustainable Communities: Potential and Pitfalls’- aims to explore the possible future applications of Blockchain technology – a digital, decentralised currency – in the development and coherence of sustainable communities.
