Governments love to talk up renewable energy, describing it as green and low-carbon and the way of the future. They pump huge amounts of funding into it, and, in this country, are shutting down peat production and promising to leave carbon fuels like oil and gas in the ground, because they claim energy from wind […]
Ireland is literally bursting at the teems with rubbish scattered across the country. In a recent walk in a ploughed field, I picked up in the region of 150 pieces of trash in a ten-minute period, everything from plastic bags, plastic bottles, black plastic, drink cans, sweet papers, and pieces of glass. At an estimate […]
The apparent resurgence of ‘Green Politics’ at local, national and EU level has been the focus of significant commentary in recent times. For many, this is a welcome development that signals the arrival of a renewed global consensus on the various ecological and biodiversity challenges that confront us. This was certainly the reaction of the […]