Environment
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The Green movement was born when we looked back on our planet for the first time and realised the threat we posed to our own natural world. It was a child of the 1960s, embracing and promoting civil, racial, feminist, gay, and animal rights. It was into making love not war and thinking globally, while […]
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The building on the corner of Liffey St and Abbey St would dominate the skyline from almost any direction.
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Limerick has had enough
Plans by Irish Cement to burn toxic waste at Castlemungret have galvanised a city poised for re-development, and ready for better
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Years after the day after
Nuclear apocalypse requires crazed dictators and unhinged presidents to seem real. Catastrophic climate change on the other hand, merely requires us to continue living as we are.
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Unhappy cows and others
Pádraic Fogarty is justifiably sceptical about Ireland’s official environmentalism in his new book, ‘Whittled Away – Ireland’s Vanishing Nature’
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Reducing carbon emissions is one thing: mitigating the effects of climate change when it hits is another.
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A few Docklands successes do not mean Dublin’s fragile human-scale city centre can handle increased height in its historic areas