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Review by Frank Cavanagh Féidhlim Hart’s timely and practical guide to what he concedes is an “umentionable” activity, one which he notes is ”making the news” gives a very useful overview of the problems associated with sewage treatment and effluent disposal. It is divided into handy foolproof chapters with titles like “How can I […]
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By Frank Armstrong I interviewed environmental historian John Robert McNeill, a professor in Georgetown University, best known for his 2000 book, ‘Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the 20th-Century World’, shortly after his recent lecture on global environmental history in Dublin. Chicago-based McNeill is also author of ‘Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War […]
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By Martin O’ Reilly In October, Dublin City Councillors voted in favour of removing fluoride from public water supplies. The motion, which was passed by 22 votes, called for the removal of fluoride and to make it a crime for anyone that attempts to add it to water supplies. Dublin is not the first city […]
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By Hayley Farrell. Ill fares the land to hastening ills a prey, where wealth accumulates and men decay”, Oliver Goldsmith’s ‘The Deserted Village’ is a portrait of life in his native countryside, once a thriving community, but then destroyed by the effects of the industrial revolution. We hear much about Dublin in terms of parks, […]
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________________________ This Changes Everything Naomi Klein Simon & Schuster 2014 _______________________ Review by John Gibbons. I finished reading Naomi Klein’s ‘This Changes Everything’ just as a major study by the WWF confirmed that, in a mere four decades, more than half of the wild animals on Earth had been wiped out. From the time I […]
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By Aidan J ffrench. Parks are vital contributors to urban life. But, with notable exceptions (eg Dublin County Council’s acquisitions of demesne landscapes: Marlay, Malahide, Ardgillan etc.), provision and management of parks in Ireland is haphazard, due to inadequate policy, law and resources, and political inertia. In 2006 Minister Roche’s responses to Dáil questions from […]
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By Shirley Clerkin. There is something innately satisfying about a good field. Maybe it is the sense of enclosure, or a golden ratio of open pasture to hedge or stone wall. Perhaps it is the clatter of the gate as you climb up and over and the decent feeling of arrival as you land with […]
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