The fuel protests in Ireland are a Trojan Horse that aim to bring fascism to Ireland. We are witnessing the birth of an Irish version MAGA. The more you look, the more obvious it is that many of the key spokesmen (and they are all men) are dangerous anti-immigrant far right agitators.Wake up.
Looks like we're still firmly in the grip of Rainbow season.
County Clare, Ireland.
Have your say by January 15 deadline.
In all our time in An Taisce, this is one of the biggest threats to environmental protection that we have ever faced. These proposed changes are clearly unlawful, undemocratic & unfair.
For more: www.antaisce.org/news/all-han...
#environmentaljustice
Picture of Laytown beach in County Meath Ireland showing a cloudy sky with sunlight streaming through to light up a beach with some horse riders in the far distance.
Financial barriers to environmental litigation are against the law, because protecting the environment is an important public interest.
The government now wants to make it super expensive (>€100,000) for ordinary people to go to court to protect the environment
Please read and take action 👇
I had to re-read this a few times because it is hard to believe.
Demand from proposed new data centres might be as high as 5.8GW, equivalent to *peak electricity demand for the entire country*.
www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
I’ve written something on John Collison’s Op-Ed and environmental democracy
Next time you’re out in Dublin, check if you’re being “socially de-risked” by a friendly face from his think-tank
elajucd.com/2025/11/21/o...
It was a great pleasure to have Isabella Tree from Knepp Estate as a guest in our lecture series "Naturnahe Beweidung im Fokus". Her talk ist now on Youtube.
Overly positive comments from the audience, e.g. "The best zoom event on conservation I ever experienced"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaDT...
Alternating strips focus on different seed mixtures for food and habitat. Interestingly the grassy verge of cocksfoot and timothy boast huge populations of invertebrates.
Species selected for maximum summer and winter forage for the birds based on food rather than copying native habitat. Flax, crimson clover, red clover, chamomile/mayweed, cornflower.
Very large forage vetch pods, some flax and a mystery seed cluster I have yet to identify.
Adjacent to the fields thick native hedging provides smaller birds with a safe retreat from raptors (I observed birds of prey briefly scouting the fields on both visits).
Met a truly remarkable landowner 3 wks ago. Farm tour of hedges surrounding his fields dedicated to wild bird cover crops.
He was kind enough to let me return, collect seed and observe it more closely.
Surrounded by conventional farming many traditional farm birds flock to feed in the winter 1/2
Roots of Solidarity | Eco-Arts Festival
Loughrea, Co. Galway, 27/28 September 2025
Featuring dance, crafts, film, music, art, poetry, storytelling, walks, talks, nature trail activities and more.
Keynote address: Dr. Peter Doran, 'The Rights of Nature are the Rights of Ireland...'
#speirgorm
Sustainable Living & Eco Arts Festival
Kylebrack, Loughrea, Co. Galway
27 Sept 2025 & 28 Sept 2025, 10:30 - 16:30
Just a couple of days left to speak up for nature
The European Commission wants to roll back vital environmental protections – and they’re asking for your opinion.
Let them understand nature needs more help than ever #HandsOffNature
Please send your message:
swanireland.ie/take-action/...
Publishing this September . . .
@newislandbooks.bsky.social @janeclarke.bsky.social
Two years on from the finding in the European Court against Ireland for not implementing the Habitats Directive, what has changed for Ireland's network of protected areas for nature?
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
"If you love a place, don't go there. There's more than one way to love."
~ Stephen Jenkinson
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgWp...
It's the 1 year anniversary of the Nature Restoration Law entering into force🎉💚
Citizens from across Europe demanded action to #RestoreNature & now it's up to our national governments to consult, draft, fund & implement ambitious Nature Restoration Plans 🫂✍️💰🌱 #RestoreNature
Flyer for Talk & discussion with Starhawk on permaculture & social change Slieve Aughty Centre, Kylebrack, near Loughrea, Co. Galway 20 August 2025, 8pm - 9:30pm Booking: info@celtnet.org
Talk & discussion with Starhawk on permaculture & social change
Slieve Aughty Centre, Kylebrack, near Loughrea, Co. Galway
20 August 2025, 8pm - 9:30pm
“Just as we divorce ourselves from the natural world and destroy it, we do something extraordinary – we create staged-managed versions of the very thing that we’re losing. It offers us reassurance, a collective self-delusion, a mask to what we’re really doing”
Environmental Pillar endorses Talamh Beo statement on destruction of UAWC seed storage facilities at Hebron environmentalpillar.ie/environmenta...
Alfred Decker, together with Starhawk and Davie Philip, will be back teaching in Ireland (near Loughrea, Co. Galway) in August 2025.
#permaculture #socialpermaculture
PermaTalks Vol 5 sessions now free to watch. Alfred Decker's lecture about the social microclimate has been published - watch it at permapuheet.fi/alfred-decke...
#permatalks #permaculture #education #community #network #sustainbility #socialpermaculture #eupn
Figure out how “...to be of service not knowing if you are a hospice worker or a midwife”
https://workthatreconnects.org/joanna-macy-in-memoriam/
Our Editor @susanresurgence.bsky.social introduces 'Ocean Glories II' – a deep dive into the world's most imperilled habitat. And whilst we celebrate the many wonderful #ocean creatures, we cannot continue to ignore the threats to this fragile #ecosystem > www.resurgence.org/magazine/art...
#Sea 💙
Excellent graphic by Kimberley Stone of Naturaly Mindful, showing the #rippleeffect of connection with #nature.
The Orwellian myth at the heart of industrial agriculture?
That environmental destruction is actually conservation.
This must-read essay traces how productivism – the obsession with yield – fuels ecocide & colonialism, while failing to 'feed the world'.
📖 spectrejournal.com/the-enduring...
"The last two years allow us to draw a painfully simple conclusion: Germany’s Staatsräson has become as detached from moral standards and the politics of remembrance as they can get. They no longer serve the critical realization of historical responsibility. On the contrary, they undermine it."
