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The Hive
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Green Party/Comhaontas Glas
Group for members and supporters of the Green Party/Comhaontas Glas of Ireland
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Green Drinks
Hi! Green Drinks is a chance to mix with other like-minded people, share info, make friends & contacts – it has now spread to over 390 cities around the world! The event is made simple and unstructured and there are no fees so we hope you can make it! For more information on Green Drinks visit www.greendrinks.org. The next Green Drinks Dublin will be on Tuesday 9th September from 18:00-20:00! It will be upstairs at The South William Bar, 52 South William Street, Dublin 2, Ireland. Please email info@leafliving.com if you are coming or if you would like to be added to the mailing list to hear about future events. Please spread the word! Thanks This Green Drinks event is sponsored by: Leaf Living Friends of the Earth Ireland Podium Europe
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- Are ferries (large ones that take people & cars, e.g. from Oslo to Kiel) any better than planes when it comes to CO2 emissions?
- Where can I find a market in Camden, that isn't an expensive "organic" luxury shop? Any allotments owners flogging off their produce?
- can you tell us more about this?
- By registering with MPS as one person mentioned, government letters will not be received is propergander, I question this as we received a non addressed letter from our Council with a suggested Tree Preservation Order asking we agreed, disagreed or suggested that more trees be added. If I had opted for this type, I would not have been able to save a tree near us that has an abundance of wildlife in it....any thoughts
- Are we really making any difference by changing to Airtricity? As I understand it, Airtricity do not have enough renewable energy supply so top up from the grid. As more people sign up with Airtricity they will just top up more from most likely ESB supplied sources. I think only way to really make a difference here is to supply your own. is there another approach?
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Story wit the rain an all !!
Rainfall Radar as of from 11.30am.
I am looking out the window and I suppose bemused is the only word that describes the feeling. I know we say we are here to talk about the solutions and not the problems. That we know the problems and its time for action, but do you know what? I am amazed.The whole of August was record rain after record rain, its …
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Small Islands to World: S.O.S.
Avaaz.org,the online petitioning campaign, continue their urgent work today. This time they are focused on the small island states around the globe, but specifically in the Pacific ocean. Here climate change is no longer a theory it is a fact of life.For the first time in human history, the North Pole can be circumnavigated -- the Arctic ice is mel…
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Flow
Irena Salina's award-winning documentary investigation into what experts label the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st Century - The World Water Crisis. Salina builds a case against the growing privatization of the world's dwindling fresh water supply with an unflinching focus on politics, pollution, human rights, and the e…
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Maptastic
I am a big believer in visualization, when you can see something that untanagable it helps you understand the scale. Worldmapper focuses upon some of the planet’s most vital topics, from population density to oil consumption and CO2 levels, these radically redefined maps incorporate data and figures to create a shifting series of unfamiliar landsca…
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The Electric Picnic
The Electric Picinic music festival kicks off this weekend and this year it promises to be one of the greenest! Working alongside Cultivate, EmissionZero, Body and Soul,BYE and ourselves, POD have developed a sustainability strategy to guide its activities to reduce the Electric Picnic's impact on the planet. It aims to make the Picnic one of the m…
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Tap Water
It's been a while since we featured a video from the guys at DoTheGreenThing. This month they've been mostly drinking tap water. As the guys point out "Mineral water does untold environmental damage, tastes exactly like tap water and costs 1000 times as much. And yet sad gullible people across the world fall for the mineral water myth and think the…
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The currencies are a changing!!
The value of sterling may be plummeting as fears grow over the depth of a possible recession. But in the scenic East Sussex town of Lewes - famous for its bonfire night parties and bewildering number of pubs - a handy alternative is about to become available.They have followed the lead of fellow Transition Towners, Totnes in Devon, where a compleme…
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Green Me
Always supportive of a local venture we’d like to give you the heads up on GreenMe.ie, which offers straight-talking, stylish and super convenient ways to green your lifestyle. Along with environmentalist and media personality Duncan Stewart, the GreenMe team promises a No guilt-trip, sacrifice free insight into a more sustainable way of life!
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The Green Scene
Some will notice that I have changed the title of this thread. I have done so for no other reason that I hated the original from day one... and I hope you did too.
Ever wonder where the world’s biggest wind farms projects are located? Wonder no more.
Swami Ramdev threatens ‘protest and political ruin’ on India’s political elite if they do not ‘purif…
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Friday's Green Icon
Born in India in 1952, Vandana Shiva is a world-renowned environmental leader and thinker. Director of the Research Foundation on Science, Technology, and Ecology, she is the author of many books, including Water Wars: Pollution, Profits, and Privatization (South End Press, 2001), Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge (South End Press, 199…