Environment
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Planet Earth: quarry and dump.
By John Gibbons. In 2009, some months before the ill-fated UN climate conference in Copenhagen, an Earth system framework was proposed by an international collaboration of environmental scientists. Their aim was to establish a measurable set of ‘planetary boundaries’ with a view to identifying a ’safe operating space’ for humanity. The researcher team, involving scientists […]
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Meat causes flooding
And drainage to increase the speed of water flowing from the land and through the rivers has increased the propensity of our towns to flooding
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Quarry and dump
Humanity has breached four of nine key boundaries: biodiversity, CO2, deforestation and water pollution by agriculture
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Climbdown
Lacking any new targets or any teeth the Climate Bill is useless and environmental NGOs should have said so
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The Age of Loneliness
We are prisoners of competition and individualism
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Campaign
By Ciaran Cuffe Dublin city, particularly as Hayley Farrell notes [p64-65] the north inner city, could do with more parks, and luckily there is space to spare. Apart from the dozens of parcels of derelict land under the control of Dublin City Council there are also many large sites under the control of NAMA, and […]
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Quays are key
By Michael Smith After the Second World War private cars began to fill the streets of cities across the western world. In the 1960s Dublin’s traffic authorities began to contemplate radical interventions to accommodate the influx of cars. One scheme involved covering the river over and using the new surface for road widening and car […]