Soil Association

Understanding Soil - getting the basics right

Tuesday 8th March

10.30am - 4.30pm

Grrenmount Campus

Co. Antrim

One day workshop on improving soil structure and fertility, optimising productivity, nutrient budgeting on organic farms and much more.

Tickets cost £40+ vat for Soil Association members and £65+vat…

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Water Crisis - Friends of the Earth's Perspective

Chances are that you experienced at least some disruption to your water supply over Christmas and that you've heard a great deal in the local media about the crisis that left tens of thousands of homes without water, in some cases for weeks.…

Hedgerow Laying & Management Course

Derry City Council is hosting a Hedgerow Laying & Management Workshop. If you would like to learn how to select the ideal plants for a hedgerow, prepare the ground, the correct way to plant trees and ensure minimum…

feeling powerless when governments are bailing out banks, cutting public services and ignoring corporate tax fraud?

Be inspired....

http://bryony.posterous.com/my-one-woman-top-shop-protest-4th-december-20

Local Transition Derry members, George Row and Mary-Kay Mullan recently installed a solar panel following advice from another member Cye Bannon who facilitated a workshop in Creggan Country Park earlier this year.

See the photos documenting the installation here -

http://veryireland.com/energy/Installing-Solar-Water-Heating/index.html

and have a look at Cye's…

Covert Cap and Share video just released by freakylinks

As climate negotiators this week in Cancun in Mexico try to rescue anything face-saving from the ashes of Copenhagen, and as the planet continues to heat up regardless, a simple idea called Cap & Share -

which would simultaneously control emissions and boost equality - has

been gaining…

You are warmly invited to the launch of Feasta's new book, Fleeing Vesuvius: Overcoming the Risks of economic and environmental collapse, at 3pm on Saturday, 20th November. The event is being held in European Union House, 18 Dawson Street, Dublin 2

The book is to be launched by Fr. Sean McDonagh, a Feasta member and a prolific author, his most recent books being Dying for Water (2003), The Death of…

So the money in your bank account was created by private companies?

The numbers in your own bank account were all created, essentially out of nothing, not by the Bank of England or the Royal Mint, but by commercial banks.

The banks are able to create this ‘number money’ through the accounting process that they use to make loans. Rather than taking money from a saver and lending it to a borrower (as per the…

What Climate Change Brings to the Development Education Agenda



What Climate Change Brings to the Development Education Agenda is the title of

an upcoming Centre for Global Education seminar, which will be held…

Bat & ghost detecting at Gransha Wood

Are you brave enough to venture into the…

Positive Money STUDENT CONFERENCE

13th & 14th November…

What Climate Change Brings to the Development Education Agenda…

The Park After Dark Family Event…