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David Roberts (Vox) on Why Zero is Way More Than 2 or 350
The “bracing clarity of a vision for Zero carbon”
1 Feb 2016In Paris, global action on climate change was taken (sort of), but what’s happening locally in Ireland and the United Kingdom?
NOT MUCH.
1 Jan 2016Paris, climate change talks, and terrorists/tyrants
When words sometimes fail, a picture can be worth a thousand words
1 Dec 2015Heading to Paris: there are some hopeful signals emerging from all the noise surrounding climate change talks BUT there is a helluva storm coming right behind those signals
Perhaps the largest change from previous talks involving the Conferences of the Parties (COP) is that we have dropped the attempted COP imposition of …
1 Nov 2015Climate change -> drought => armed conflict + political instability = mass migration, as in Syria
Climate change’s role in recent mass migrations from Syria
1 Oct 2015Water, Water Everywhere and Not A Drop to Drink for Free – Soon It may Be Little Water Anywhere and You’ll Be Glad to Pay Just to Get Some
Some Irish resist paying for water while the supply of water itself continues to diminish
1 Sep 2015The wonders of language where fossil fuel companies fight “energy poverty” and Irish farmers fight global hunger with beef and cheese
On arguments that coal, meat and dairy products are good for poor people
1 Aug 2015Dutch Court Orders Dutch Government to Increase Its Climate Change Targets
A “landmark”, “milestone”, “game-changer” legal decision on climate change
1 Jul 2015Cows, Apps, Sheep, and Drones: High Tech Comes to Agriculture
Devices for monitoring growth of grass, drones to herd sheep and more
1 Jun 2015Talk, Talk, Talk About Climate Change – It’s Driving Some Well-Intentioned People (like Jonathan Franzen) Crazy
Think global, act local and other metaphors for talking about climate change
1 May 2015Does Ireland Want More Cows or More Cars – It Can’t Have Both
Who is going to pay for the significant increase in dairy herds with Harvest 2020? Probably you.
1 Apr 2015Planting Forests as a Transition to an Energy Future Reliant on Renewables: Implications for Ireland
1 Jan 2015
The Need to Boycott Fossil Fuel Companies, Not Just Divest from Them
We need a good, old-fashioned boycott to ostracize fossil fuel bad actors by refusing to buy any products from them
1 Nov 2014Day of Reckoning: Germany’s energiewende
The transition to renewable energy is making life difficult for old-fashioned power companies
1 Oct 2014Want a look at the new, de-centralised renewable electricity world that’s coming? Check out UBS report.
If you want to argue that fossil fuels must be left untapped, in the ground or seas, here are some alternatives to offer
1 Sep 2014Waste Not, Want Not: Recontextualising Waste Prevention by the Irish EPA, EEB, and the EEA
Waste is a resource that needs to be managed better, something with which we need to be more efficient, like in the ways we manage our money
1 Aug 2014It’s time to label sacks of coal like we do packs of cigarettes: SMOKING KILLS
Smoking coal harms those who smoke it but also those around them and it is killing our planet by emitting greenhouse gases (GHGs).
1 Jul 2014Rounding Up the “Unusual Suspects” to Save Climate Change: Communities of Faith and Insurers
When you’re trying to figure out the next step to take to counter the fossil fuel interests, consider these “unusual suspects” as allies and seek them out to develop common grounds for action.
1 Jun 2014Think the UN IPCC latest report is a game changer? Think again.
How people and organisations will try to muddy the waters over latest UN IPCC reports on climate change
1 May 2014It’s Time to Scare the Bejesus Out of People about Climate Change
The AAAS report that graphically tell us what climate change may be really like
1 Apr 2014Why Irish farmers should be deeply concerned about fracking
The governments in the Republic of Ireland (RoI) and Northern Ireland (NI) are undertaking an assessment of the possibilities for fracking on the island …
1 Mar 2014