Towards
the end of 2004 we had found the busyness of Book STEPs prevented
us from taking our stall out and about as much as we'd have liked.
When we decided to open the shop in Bantry in April of 2005 we were
sad to realise that we'd have to really cut back on our stalls.
Despite this we continue to hear about and advertise green events
throughout Ireland and we thought you might be interested to see
the kind of sustainable events that have occurred in the past months.
Note that this page is simply an archive of
our Events listings and links may well go out of date.
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Ecological Debt €19.50
Hard Rain €21.00
Manifesto for the Earth €13.50
Reducing Poverty and Sustaining the Environment €30.00
State They`re In, The €19.45
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Anti Poverty
Conference, November 29 Limavady, Co. Derry
Mind The Gap – A cross border anti
poverty project partnership between Community Workers Co-operative
& Northern Ireland Anti Poverty Network - will host a conference
in the North West on the realities of poverty.
Date: Wednesday
29th November 2006
Venue: Radisson Roe Park Hotel, Limavady,
Co. Derry
Time: 9.30 am – 4.00pm
For Further details contact Séamas Devine,
Development Officer, Mind The Gap, 18 Celtic Apartments, Pearse
Road, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal or email
him or telephone 074 916 47 50 / 086 838 68 93.
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Animals are Our Brothers and Sisters, The €19.45
Animals, Ethics and Trade €25.50
Atlas of Endangered Species, The €19.50
Books to Go - Political Animals €9.00
Catastrophes and Lesser Calamities €13.50
Peace to All Beings €19.50
Primer on Animal Rights, A €25.50
So You Love Animals €16.50
Speaking Out for Animals €22.40
Living in Harmony with Animals €13.50
Animal Century €19.50
Campaign Against Cruelty €7.50
Vivisection Unveiled €10.50
Terrorists or Freedom Fighters? €22.50
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International
Day For Animal Rights (December 10)
ARAN is taking a huge step and is willing to
organize a huge rally against the cruelty on December 10th 2006,
which is the official International Day For Animal Rights.
All over the world events will be taking place
and we want this year to be the biggest ever here in Ireland.
Right now the animals are counting on us all
to speak up and free them from the pain and needless suffering that
is taking place in the greyhound industry, bloodsports, circuses
that use animals, animal experiments, shooting, fishing, homeless
and abandoned dogs, cats and other animals, animals slaughtered
for their skins, their flesh and even dogs that are chained up all
over the country who are forced to live outside in all weather extremes
be it in the thundering harsh winter or the excruciating summer
heat that we seem to be getting, all this without food, water or
shelter and there is so much more happening to animals.
They desperately need us all to help them and
we must because we all know this cruelty is needless and it's in
our hearts to do so.
The Irish government to date has a clear disregard
for animal protection and unlike other governments in many other
countries who have enforced legislation that outlaws cruelty such
as fur farms, hunting, shooting, dog fighting and much more.
In 2007 the Irish government is planning on
updating the animal welfare legislation so we need to send a huge
loud and clear message to government that the people of Ireland
care and want all this needless cruelty to end. We are counting
on people & groups across the nation to once and for all hold
hands and join together in this peaceful march that is aiming to
shine alight on the needless cruelty and urge legislators and the
public to put an end to this terrible suffering.
Our plan is to gather at the Garden of Remembrance
on Dublin's Parnell Street and with a huge banner reading "It's
Time To End Animal Cruelty Now" and "Animal Cruelty Must
Stop" make our way down O'Connell Street where we'll come to
a stop outside of Dail Eireann where these issues need to be heard,
if possible we will also have some speakers talk about campaigns
going on around the country.
But, this rally will only go ahead if we can
gather 1000 pledges from people nationwide or indeed people who
are willing to come from other countries to support our efforts.
So If you want to be part of history in the making please fill in
the details below and once we raise the 1000 - it's full steam ahead!
Be sure to send this pledge onto as many friends
and family as possible, remember the animals are counting on you.
Sign the pledge here
if you, family and friends can make it
Thank you from all of us here at Animal Rights
Action Network (ARAN)
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Cohousing Handbook, The €30.00
Co-operative Housing in Ireland €3.00
Housing Ourselves €11.25
Social Housing in Ireland €20.00
Sustainable Housing €60.00
UN Millennium Development Library: A Home in The City €37.50
Urban Housing Manual, The €24.00
Thinking about CoHousing €11.25
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Building Housing
or Creating Homes? (November 22-23, Dublin)
Focus Ireland, Festival and Conference at
the Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Dublin
22nd and 23rd November 2006
What is the connection between housing and home?
Isn't housing about more than just bricks and mortar – isn't
housing about the location of a home? And what is home? Is it a
place of security and comfort from which family is nurtured and
friendships develop? Is it a place of belonging, where identity
is formed, a place from which the wider world can be explored? If
so, what is the role of the state in enabling people to create and
sustain a home? In the context of current housing provision and
our responses to homelessness are we building housing or creating
homes?
Focus Ireland is hosting a two-day event which
will explore these questions and seek to stimulate a debate around
housing and home in Ireland.
This event will be unique in two ways.
Firstly our 'Festival of Home' on the 22nd November
2006 will provide a space to explore our understanding of home through
literature, art, film, exhibitions and workshops.
Secondly our conference 'Building Housing or
Creating Homes?' on 23rd November 2006 will bring together Irish
and international practitioners and experts to help us address the
challenge of providing solutions to housing that allow people to
create and sustain a home of their own.
Full programme details will be available in
due course – if you would like to receive further information
please email Sarah
Digby
Advocacy Unit, Focus Ireland, 9-12, High Street,
Dublin 8
Tel: 01 881 5933
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Animals are Smarter than Jack €12.00
Animals, Ethics and Trade €25.50
Atlas of Endangered Species, The €19.50
Catastrophes and Lesser Calamities €13.50
Exploring the Secret World of Wildlife Rescue €22.45
Working with Animals - UK, Europe and Worldwide €17.95
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Namibia Elephant
Project & Trek, 15th October 2006 to 24/25th of October 2006
*** applications welcome from now till October
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A holiday with a difference. You’ll
need an open mind, a willing heart and be
prepared to put in hard work for something bigger than yourself.
You’ll sweat, toil and get your fingers dirty building well
protections. You’ll meet up with the native farmers,
trek on foot across panoramic rolling plains and you’ll sleep
under the equatorial sun.
But most of all, you’ll make a difference.
Call it karma if you like but those who have chosen this holiday
in the past have commented on how it was a life-changing event and
one which many be repeated.
Now is the time to stop reading and start doing.
You'll be helping your environment in three ways:
- The ACS and Animal welfare
in Cork City & County.
- Help local communities in
Namibia to build protective barriers around local water points.
- By building these barriers
they are preventing the needless death of local Elephants
Contact Animal Care Ireland for further
information: PO Box 179, Ballinlough, Cork, Ireland, Phone: 021
455 1781 or check out their
site.
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Fundraising
Ireland 2006 conference (September 28, Dublin)
A one-day conference for the fundraising
community in Ireland from Back Page Books
'Fundraising Ireland 2006' will offer a full
day of seminars with an emphasis on individual giving bringing the
brightest and best of fundraising techniques and thinking.
The event takes place on 28 September 2006 at
The Guinness Storehouse, Dublin.
Fundraising Ireland 2006 brings together some
of the most well-respected and knowledgeable speakers from both
Ireland and the UK. An opening plenary by Deirdre Garvey, chief
executive of The Wheel, will take an overview of the fundraising
sector in Ireland, looking at its past, present and future.
The programme moves from research, through to
setting a fundraising strategy, getting donors, keeping donors,
online fundraising, branding and bequest [legacy] fundraising.
Download full brochure / application form here
(pdf file)
Principal partner for the event is Fundraising
Initiatives, partners are The Wheel and Forward Emphasis Interrnational.
UK Fundraising is the media partner for the event. Blogs from speakers
will be posted regularly here.
Email bookings may be made to backpagebooks@yahoo.co.uk,
but will only be secured when payment is received. All bookings
will be acknowledged on receipt by email. A receipted invoice will
be sent to all delegates with joining instructions.
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Building Credibility, the Foundation of Fundraising €14.90
Building Fundraising Programs to Attract Community Support €17.90
Building Structures & Skills For Fundraising €14.90
Just Work 2005/06 €7.45
Local Action €11.80
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Cultivating Pluralism €25.00
My Eyes Only Look Out €13.97
Weaving Connections €24.00
Everyone Wins! €9.00
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Second Cork Multicultural
Open Door Festival (September 30)
We are inviting voluntary/community groups
to participate in food and craft fair, intercultural dance and musical
performances, to represent your country in country models by displaying
traditional crafts, food, paintings, cultural stuff.
It will be an exiting event, its possibility
for you to express yourself and to show your country traditions
and life stile with other people of Cork.
(financial support could be available for those who will wish to
participate with food, crafts, photography and paintings - Everybody
welcome to apply with estimated budget, decisions will be made on
the Festival committee level)
DATE & TIME:
September 30 (11:00 AM – 7:00 PM)
VENUE: Ballyphehane Community Centre,
Tory Top Road, Cork
PRESENTED BY Union of Intercultural
Communities of Cork
COST: FREE to the public
For more information please contact Tania by
email
or visit the
website
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Hard
Rain, Mark Edwards Visits Ireland!!
4th-8th October 2006
Mark Edwards, the author/photographer of the
hard hitting book Hard
Rain, will be visiting Dublin, Kinsale, Waterford and Bantry
from Wednesday 4th to Sunday 8th October. He'll be participating
in different events around the country focusing on awareness raising
about climate change and practical steps we can take.
See our review of Hard Rain here.
I can't wait! Watch this spot for updates.
- Waterford, Wednesday 4th October,
contact Paul Flynn, South East Social Forum, 086 858 1915 or email
him.
- Kinsale, Thursday 5th October,
contact Graham Strouts, Kinsale Permaculture Course, 086 853 9900
or email
him.
- Bantry, Saturday 7th October,
contact Muriel Lumb, Book STEPs, 027 52570 / 086 109 8542, email
me, find more details here
and buy your ticket here.
- Dublin, Cultivate, Sunday
8th October, contact Davie Phillip, Sustainable Ireland Co-operative,
01 674 6396, email
him or check
their site.
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Equality,
Diversity & Ethnicity (October 11-14, Sligo)
Building Social Citizenship in Europe
- A Challenge for Social Professions
5th FESET Seminar, 11 - 14 October 2006 at the
Institute of Technology, Sligo.
Migration is a major social challenge in Europe
today. It is widespread and increasing and gives rise to many political,
economical, cultural and social opportunities, as well as tensions
at global, national and local levels.
Social citizenship becomes a central issue for
each member of the society to participate in the democratic process
on equal conditions. Therefore we need to progress our understanding
of how social inequality can be reduced and multiethnic society
can succeed in building on diversity.
The focus will be on how ethnic and cultural
diversity, movement, transformation and merging can be fruitful
tools for social professions and namely for socio-educational care
work.
Equality, diversity, ethnicity and social citizenship
will be discussed by the keynote speakers and by the seminar participants
presenting their papers in several workshops from the perspectives
of research, practice and teaching.
For more details: check
the site
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Atlas
of Women in the World €19.50
Equals €19.50
For Richer For Poorer €20.00
How Unequal? €20.00
Just
Law €13.50
Land Matters €14.99
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Ways of Seeing an Unequal World €26.95
Towards a Culture of Human Rights in Ireland €15.00
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Ethical Shopping €10.50
GOOD Shopping Guide, The (4th Ed) €19.45
Something to Believe In €29.90
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European Ethical
Sourcing Forum™ 2006, 12-13 October
Venue: Sofitel
Paris Bercy, Paris, France
Intertek and Ethical Corporation have worked
together to make the European Ethical Sourcing Forum™ 2006
the most successful global supply chain event of the year.
This annual leadership forum delivers a dynamic
exchange of idea, new strategies and best practices to address the
latest social and environmental challenges facing global supply
chain professional and stakeholders.
Find out more at their
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50 Facts that Should Change the World €10.50
Liberty
for Women €22.35
Women`s
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International conference
on pornography (October 23-24, Limerick)
Limerick Rape Crisis Centre will host
an international conference on pornography on Monday & Tuesday
23rd & 24th October 2006.
Venue: Greenhills
Hotel, Limerick
The Main Keynote Speaker is Dr. Diana E.H. Russell.
Full conference timetable and booking details
will be available mid August.
For further information please contact LRCC
at limerickrcc@ocenafree.net
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Green
Living Fair, Castle Espie, Wetland Centre, Saturday 16 & Sunday
17 September 2006
10.30am–6pm both days
The Green Living Fair is a not for profit event
organised by the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT) to promote
sustainable action for a better world. WWT Castle Espie is one of
nine wetlands centres in the UK run by the Wildfowl & Wetlands
Trust.
Up to 100 Exhibitors
- Loch Cuan Bowmen Runway
- Music
- Don Scott – The Owl
Man Sustainable garden
- Nature art with Jim Russell
Woodlands
- Irish Astronomical Association
- Fair Trade Marquee
- Local and organic food stalls
- Killinchy Beekeepers Straw
Bale Building
- Ards Art Collective –
Examples of environmental art.
- Do you really NEEDabag? –
Baglady needs your ideas to rid the country of 500 million plastic
bags a year
Workshops in the woods
Here is the opportunity to learn a skill craft
in these two day workshops run by experienced tutors with a passion
for their subject and with a deep interest in the ethos of the Green
Living Fair. These workshops will be limited to 10 people and will
run from 11am–5pm both days. They must be booked in
advance.
Action Renewables Marquee
In association with Action Renewables, WWT
is pleased to present for the third year at the Green Living Fair
a marquee which will host a wide range of exhibitors giving advice
and information on the latest renewable technologies for the home,
farm and business. Information on the grants for all these technologies
will be available at the Fair.
For more info email
them or check their
site.
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Fair Trade €33.00
Hard Rain €21.00
Building With Straw Bales €14.90
Go M.A.D. 2 (Go Make a Difference!) €10.50
Images Of Earth & Spirit €30.00
Practical Beekeeping €37.40
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| Palestine
as 'State of Exception': a Global Paradigm (September 12-13 September,
Dublin)
Date: 12-13 September
2006
Venue: Trinity College Dublin, IIIS
Seminar Room, C6.002, Level 6, Arts Building.
This conference aims to theorise what Edward
Said called 'the question of Palestine' in the context of globalisation.
An inter-disciplinary group of Palestinian, Israeli, British, American
and Irish scholars will explore and debate the ways in which the
Palestinian experience of being governed under a 'state of exception'
may be theorised as paradigmatic for new forms of global governance.
The state of exception is characterised, among other things, by
the law being suspended in the 'military order' issued by the executive
arm of government, often bypassing the legislature. Through the
continuing existence of a series of emergency laws, the Israeli
state regulates the lives of both its Palestinian citizens and of
the Palestinians in the occupied territories, making Palestine,
not only Palestinians under occupation, the global state of exception
par excellence.
The conference is part of the IIIS Global Networks
project. Themes discussed will include the 'Palestinisation' of
ethnic and racial conflicts, the globalisation of the conflict,
the theorisation of Palestine as a 'state of exception' and the
centrality of the memory of the 1948 Nakba (catastrophe) to the
contemporary understanding of the conflict.
Speakers: David Theo Goldberg, University of
California, Irvine; Gargi Bhattacharyya, University of Birmingham;
Ghada Karmi, Palestine / University of Exeter; Hunaida Ghanem, Palestine
/ Harvard University; Raef Zreik, Palestine / Harvard Law School;
Ilan Pappe, University of Haifa; Laleh Khalili, SOAS; Bobby Sayyid,
Leeds University; Conor McCarthy, Dublin City University; Ronit
Lentin, Trinity College Dublin.
The conference will include the showing of Ayelet
Bechar's documentary film Just Married (Israel: Channel 8, 2005)
and documentary coverage of the checkpoint regime by Tamar Goldschmidt,
Machsanmillim, Jerusalem.
For further information contact: Dr
Ronit Lentin, Department of Sociology, Tel: 00 353 1 608 2744, Email:
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Baghdad Bulletin €22.50
Islam €10.50
Israeli Dilemma, The €14.95
Occupied Minds €25.50
On the Border €22.50
Palestine-Israel Conflict, The €19.50
Reflections in a Bloodshot Lens €24.00
Suppression of Guilt, The €19.50
Unarmed Heroes €16.45
War Hotel, The €37.50
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Climate Change €30.00
So Shall We Reap €13.50
Irish Agricultural Production €44.50
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Global Climate Change
and Energy Supply - Opportunities for Irish Agriculture, Friday
8th September 2006. Radisson Hotel, Sligo
Are you up to speed on climate change, carbon
credits and the potential impact on Irish Agriculture? Is
renewable energy the new cash cow?
Hear the top international scientists, policy makers and business
experts
Dr Ian Law, UK National Non-Food Crops Centre Dr Jimmy Burke, Teagasc.
Paul Harris, Bank of Ireland Global Markets. Owen Ryan, Department
of the Environment. Mairead McGuinness, European Parliament. Padraig
Walshe, IFA President. Dr Martin von Lampe, OECD, Paris. Prof. Frank
OMara, UCD. Leo Perkowski, AgCert.
Plus... Opening address by Mary Coughlan, Minister
for Agriculture and Food. Tom Moran, Sec General, Department of
Agriculture and Food on the Agri-Food Strategy to 2013
Secure your place now by calling the ASA Office
on 01 4603682 or emailing
them
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Combating AIDS in the Developing World €37.50
Flood Hazards and Health €82.50
Toxic Childhood €19.50
UN Millennium Development Library: Health, Dignity and Development €37.50
UN Millennium Development Library: Prescription for Healthy Development €37.50
UN Millennium Development Library: Who`s Got the Power? €37.50
Where There is No Artist €25.45
Food Wars €30.00
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Equity
Challenges in Global Health: Irish Forum for Global Health Biannual
Conference (Sept 7-8, Co Galway)
Dates: 7th-8th September 2006
Venue: The Galway Bay Hotel, Salthill,
Co. Galway
Key Note Speakers:
- Dr Irene Agua Agyapong (
Alliance for Health Systems & Policy Research)
- Dr Odile Leroy (European
Developing Country Clinical Trials Partnership)
- Dr David McCoy (Global Equity
Gauge Alliance)
- Dr Ravi Narayan (People's
Health Movement)
- Dr Ellen t'Hoen (Medecins
sans Fontieres)
Prof John Kevany Memorial Lecture: Dr Vincent
O'Neill (Irish Aid)
Abstracts for oral or poster presentations are
invited on the themes of global health research, advocacy, and education.
Conference Aims:
- To bring together people from
diverse backgrounds to debate the global challenge of addressing
inequities in health and to identify ways in which Ireland can
respond both globally and locally;
- To connect people involved
in relevant education/research/policy with individuals and organisations
who can help them work more effectively;
- To raise awareness of global
health issues in Ireland: link global health issues to other conferences
in 2006.
For more information, to register or submit
an abstract go to the
conference site
Irish Forum for Global Health, c/o 3-4 Foster
Place, Trinity College, Dublin 2
phone 086 316 6388, email
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Building With Hemp €35.00
Hemp Handbook, The €16.50
Hemp Manifesto, The €10.50
Great Book of Hemp, The €24.00
Hemp Horizons €22.40
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Building with Hemp
Course, Mon 4th to Thurs 7th Sept 2006
Steve Allin, author of the book 'Building with
Hemp', is running a hemp building course in Co. Kerry. This will
consist of an introduction to the materials, method and use of hemp/lime
in design and construction. The course will cover design and framework
aspects of hempbuilding, with an element of hands-on experience
in mixing and applying hemp cast walls on site. Hemp plastering,
hemp finishes & lime paints will also be covered.
Included with the course is accommo (2 person
per room sharing), breakfast & light lunch at Anam Cré
Studio, Kenmare. To check out the venue visit Kenmare
Pottery or the Hemp
Building site.
Course dates:
Mon 4th to Thurs 7th Sept 2006.
Cost: 400 Euro (+ accommodation &
breakfast, lunch)
To book email
or tel 064 41747
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Environment
Ireland 2006, Sep 4th - 5th
The second annual Environment Ireland is Ireland’s
largest conference on environmental policy and management and is
organised in association with the Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) and the Department of Environment, Heritage & Local Government.
Last year’s inaugural conference was attended
by over 300 delegates and this year’s event, following feedback
from delegates, will take an expanded and enhanced format, with
plenary sessions, workshops and the exhibition taking place over
two days. The conference has also been moved to the larger Burlington
Hotel conference centre, with the event having outgrown its inaugural
venue!
The conference will feature a panel of experts
presenting on key environmental issues such as:
- Resources management (waste,
water, energy),
- Climate change,
- Sustainable development,
- Transport,
- Environment and the economy
Through the plenary sessions and extensive workshop
programme, the two day event will highlight existing areas of best
practice, as well as drawing attention to policy areas where possible
all-island co-operation can be initiated or extended. This North-South
focus will be an important feature of the
conference.
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Future of Eco-labelling, The €52.50
Greening the North €25.45
Guide to EC Environmental Law, A €34.45
Re-Thinking Green €21.00
Sustainable Communities in Europe €37.45
Cases in Climate Change Policy €34.45
Environmental Policy in the European Union €34.45
Planning for Cycling €142.50
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Seed to Seed €28.45
Back Garden Seed Saving €19.40
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Vegetable
Seed Saving - from Growing
Awareness - Sunday 3rd September 2006
Help preserve our heritage varieties by saving your own seeds. You’ll
learn about the biology of pollination and how to separate, dry
and store your own seed. You’ll also be developing West Cork’s
unique local food.
Location:
Madeline McKeever’s, Church Cross, Skibbereen
Contact:
Madeline McKeever on 028 38184
Email:
madsmckeever@eircom.net
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Natural
Building in West Cork (2-10 September)
The Hollies Centre for Practical Sustainability
in West Cork, Ireland will host a 10-day cob-building course with
the masters of cob building from Oregon, US, Ianto Evans and Linda
Smiley, authors of 'The Handsculpted House'
Learn how to build your own cob cottage (using
earth, straw and other natural materials). Cob construction
is an ancient technique. This hands-on course will cover all aspects
of cob building – soil testing, cob mixing (by foot and using
a digger), wall raising techniques and much more.
Further information at their
site or contact them at The Hollies, Castletown, Enniskeane,
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Building
Green €29.95
Building With Cob €37.50
Building
With Hemp €35.00
Oak-Framed
Buildings €37.45
Tiny
Home to Call Your Own €24.00
Home
Work €25.50
Living Under Thatch €15.00
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Manifesto for the Earth €13.50
Video For Change €22.50
Women`s Rights €10.50
Refugees and Asylum-Seekers in Ireland €10.00
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Belfast 2006 - The
Right Justice (Aug 28 - Sept 1, Belfast)
This international conference for anyone
involved in the voluntary and community, children and young people's
and human rights sectors, takes place in the Waterfront Hall, Belfast,
from 28 August to 1 September 2006.
The aim of Belfast 2006 is to promote the welfare
and rights of children. It will provide a unique forum for participants
to meet, discuss and exchange information on the United Nations
Convention on the Rights of the Child, other relevant international
human rights instruments and issues impacting on children and young
people - family, community and society. The congress programme will
incorporate addresses by a superb range of international speakers,
plenary sessions, workshops, poster displays, round table discussions
and presentations.
Among those addressing the conference will be
the President of Ireland, Mary McAleese and Mrs Mehr Khan Williams,
United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights.
More details at www.youthandfamily2006.com
email: youthandfamily2006@ovation-ni.com
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| Heritage
Week 2006, 26th August – 3rd September
Heritage Week is an inspiring programme of nationwide
events celebrating the depth and diversity of our national heritage.
Heritage Week could not take place without the input of individuals
and organisations that organise events across Ireland. If you want
to be included in the programme of events for Heritage Week 2006
you must register online before 30 June at www.heritageweek.ie
or download a registration form and instructions and return not
later than 30th June to:
Maria Walsh, The Heritage Council, Rothe House, Kilkenny, CallSave
number 1850 200 878 or email
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Green Inheritance €30.00
Heritage of Ireland, The €35.00
Land Matters €14.99
Voices and Poetry of Ireland €21.00
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Bloody Sunday Enquiry, The €16.50
Different Drum €11.25
Forgiveness - Breaking the Chain of Hate €17.25
Friendship Towards Peace €9.99
Healing of Individuals, Families and Nations, The €14.95
Place for Peace, A €16.95
War Hotel, The €37.50
Working
with Conflict €26.95
Defending Peace €15.00
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Dimensions
of Conflict and Peace: Opportunities and Challenges (25-27 August,
Glencree, Co Wicklow)
Glencree Centre for Reconciliation Summer
School 2006 incorporating the Annual Glencree Women's Lecture:
25th 27th August, 2006, Glencree Centre
for Reconciliation, Glencree, Co Wicklow
As with all Glencree Summer Schools, the 2006
event will provide an interactive opportunity for dialogue between
political and civil society actors. Under the title of "Dimensions
of Conflict and Peace - Opportunities and Challenges", the
event will create the space for an informed dialogue around the
complexities of conflict and will place particular emphasis on factors
which are often significant elements of a peace process.
The keynote speaker this year is Mr. Gregory
Campbell, MP MLA of the Democratic Unionist Party. Other contributors
include former hunger striker Mr. Laurence McKeown, GAA President
Mr. Seán Kelly, Rev. Brian Kennaway, Deputy Leader of the
Labour Party Ms. Liz McManus TD, Deputy Chief Constable of the PSNI
Mr. Paul Leighton QPM, Leader of the Progressive Unionist Party
Mr. David Ervine MLA, Mr. Colin Parry of the Tim Parry Jonathan
Ball Trust in Warrington, Mr. Pat Carey TD of the British Irish
Inter-parliamentary Body and Sr. Geraldine Smyth of the Irish School
of Ecumenics.
The Annual Glencree Women's Lecture will be
delivered by Journalist and Broadcaster Ms. Karen Coleman, presenter
of 'The Wide Angle' on Newstalk 106.
The Summer School fee is 150 euros (165
euros for twin bedded accommodation). Further details and
registration form available here
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Language of Symbols, The €7.50
Long Life, Honey in the Heart €19.50
Masks Around the World €9.00
Native American Traditions €9.50
Stories That Crafted The Earth €19.50
Weaving Connections €24.00
Life Like Mine, A €22.50
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Festival of World
Cultures 2006, Dun Laoghaire, 25th, 26th and 27th August 2006
The Festival of World Cultures - Dun laoghaire,
one of Ireland's leading Festivals, is an annual International Arts
and Culture Festival celebrating the vibrancy of multi-cultural
traditions both Nationally and Internationally.
The 2005 Festival attracted in the region of
200,000 people over the weekend showcasing three days of inspirational
music, art and dance from around the world.
The Festival in 2006 is to take place from Friday
25th - Sunday 27th August. The Festival aims to create an environment
for both artists and audiences to experience artistic exchange and
inspiration through a programme that presents aspiring, developing
and exemplary artistic excellence. The Festival presents an accessible
programme to encourage new communities and existing Irish communities
to explore and experience the benefits of cultural and traditional
artforms from around the world.
This year's programme will feature artists from
over 50 countries ranging Algeria, Tibet, Sudan, Israel, Cuba, Poland,
Niger, Russia and Mexico..to name just a few! Over 160 events will
take place in 40 venues throughout Dun Laoghaire town and with a
programme that is 70% free to the public, for all ages and tastes
the festival offers a worldwind of colour, culture and craic to
enjoy.
For more information check their
site or contact Jane Davy, Festival Manager
by phone (01) 204 7271 or email
her.
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| Permaculture
and Powerdown Workshop Camp Out, July the 27th to Sunday July 30th
At the Village Project, Cloughjordan, North
Tipperary
Organised by the Cultivate Centre
Cost: Camping
€150 / €100 for village and cultivate members and students
/ dormitory €175 (Includes course materials and three nights
accommodation in Cloughjordan)
Come and join us at Cloughjordan, the site for
one of Europe's most innovative sustainability projects- "The
Village"- for a weekend introduction to Permaculture and community
responses to the energy crises. Course Leaders: Davie Philip works
at the Cultivate Centre in Dublin and has been organising events
at the cutting edge of solutions-based environmentalism for over
10 years and is a founding member of The Village. Graham Strouts
co-ordinates the Practical Sustainability course in Kinsale. He
holds the Diploma in Applied Permaculture Design and for the past
2 years has been involved with raising awareness about responses
to Peak Oil.
Permaculture is a practical design method which
uses natural systems as a model for sustainable human settlements.
Through a combination of instruction and hands on application, the
course immerses participants in the theoretical, physical and social
aspects of eco-villages, community living, and Permaculture.
Topics will include:
- permaculture design principles; - the home food-garden; - woodland
management; - integrated permaculture design for The Village; -
community responses to Peak Oil
This event will be of benefit to people with
no experience in permaculture and people who have taken a full permaculture
design course. It is being run as part of Cultivate’s Powerdown
Project and will be of interest to any one with an interest in Peak
Oil, community and energy descent planning. Find out more here.
For more information and directions call Davie
on 01 674 6396 |
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Permaculture €29.95
Powerdown €16.45
Permaculture in a Nutshell €7.40
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| Permaculture
and Powerdown Workshop Camp Out, July the 27th to Sunday July 30th
At the Village Project, Cloughjordan, North
Tipperary
Organised by the Cultivate Centre
Cost: Camping
€150 / €100 for village and cultivate members and students
/ dormitory €175 (Includes course materials and three nights
accommodation in Cloughjordan)
Come and join us at Cloughjordan, the site for
one of Europe's most innovative sustainability projects- "The
Village"- for a weekend introduction to Permaculture and community
responses to the energy crises. Course Leaders: Davie Philip works
at the Cultivate Centre in Dublin and has been organising events
at the cutting edge of solutions-based environmentalism for over
10 years and is a founding member of The Village. Graham Strouts
co-ordinates the Practical Sustainability course in Kinsale. He
holds the Diploma in Applied Permaculture Design and for the past
2 years has been involved with raising awareness about responses
to Peak Oil.
Permaculture is a practical design method which
uses natural systems as a model for sustainable human settlements.
Through a combination of instruction and hands on application, the
course immerses participants in the theoretical, physical and social
aspects of eco-villages, community living, and Permaculture.
Topics will include:
- permaculture design principles; - the home food-garden; - woodland
management; - integrated permaculture design for The Village; -
community responses to Peak Oil
This event will be of benefit to people with
no experience in permaculture and people who have taken a full permaculture
design course. It is being run as part of Cultivate’s Powerdown
Project and will be of interest to any one with an interest in Peak
Oil, community and energy descent planning. Find out more here.
For more information and directions call Davie
on 01 674 6396 |
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Permaculture €29.95
Powerdown €16.45
Permaculture in a Nutshell €7.40
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Hideaways
€15.00
How to Design a Boat €16.50
Tiny Home to Call Your Own, A €24.00
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22nd-24th
July 06: Summer in the Woods - CELT
courses in traditional and ecological skills
Another big weekend of traditional and ecological
skills training at all levels for adults (age 14+)
Courses will include Dry-stone and Lime-mortar
Walling, Basket Weaving, Thatching, Blacksmithing, Greenwood Furniture
making, Natural Building, Coppersmithing, Silversmithing, Herb Lore,
Bushcraft, Natural Building, Sugan Chair making and more.
For youngsters (8 - 14 yrs) : Woodcrafts
Providing children with a basic skills-base
for design and construction of simple 'rustic' furniture, musical
instruments, shelter building and camping skills. Instruction in
use of hammer and nails, rope-making and weaving techniques to encourage
children to continue making things at home. The tutor will supervise
use of hammers and saw - other sharp tools (e.g. knife, axe) will
be used by the tutor only.
Fee 120 euro (100 unwaged) for 2 days or 170
euro (140 unwaged) for 3 days (+ membership).
For details see Summer
in the Woods On-line
Booking
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Wexford
Women's Festival: conference and events (July 21-22)
The Equality for Women Measure in Wexford are
holding a two day Women's Festival on 21st and 22nd of July 2006.
Day one of the festival will be a conference
looking at issues that women face and experience in society today,
inculding domestic violence, womens health, equality and Women in
leadership.
Day two of the festival will be a family event
to be held on Wexford Quays and will include arts and crafts, exibitions
from womens groups, music, dance and childrens entertainment.
The Marie Keating Foundation will be in attendence
both days offering free confidential advice for both men and women
on Cancer screening.
Numbers for the conference are limited to 150,
interested parties should contact Patricia McCann by 30th June 2006
on 053 9126477 or email
her. |
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Atlas
of Women in the World, The €19.50
Defiant Irish Women €9.99
Empowering Women €10.50
Liberty for Women €22.35
Social History of Women in Ireland, 1870-1970, A €29.99
When
I Am An Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple €10.50
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Long Emergency, The €19.50
Final Energy Crisis, The €24.00
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ASPO-5 International
Conference, July 18 and 19th 2006
ASPO-5, the Fifth International Conference
of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas (ASPO) will
be held in San Rossore (Pisa), Italy, on July 18-19, 2006. Previous
international ASPO conferences were held in Lisbon (2005), Berlin
(2004), Paris (2003) and Uppsala (2002).
The main objective of the conference is to raise
the awareness of the impending peak of oil extraction, as well as
the general phenomenon of depletion of all mineral resources. For
this purpose, international experts will evaluate the consistency
of the resources; assess the effects of depletion on society and
the economy; and discuss dynamic models able to help us understand
the present and future situation. The Conference will also examine
the need for political action to reduce the impact of depletion,
such as the "depletion protocol" proposed by Colin Campbell.
The Conference will be held in the open air,
in the park of San Rossore, near Pisa, an area conveniently located
near the international "G. Galilei" airport and a few
kms from the leaning tower.
It is organized by the Italian section of ASPO
( ASPO-Italia ) with the support of the University of Firenze and
of the Tuscan Regional Government. The Attendance Fee will be Euro
120 (Euro 25 for students, negotiable for non profit associations).
The submission of scientific contributions for
oral presentation or posters is welcome (deadline for submission
May 31st, 2006). The Conference language will be English. More details
and a pre-registration form can be found at the
Conference web site.
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Dry
Stone Walls Training Days, 14th & 28th July
An Taisce in association with CELT
(Centre for Environmental Living and Training)
Practical ‘hands-on’ training days
in construction and maintenance techniques for traditional dry-stone
walls will take place on An Taisce land adjacent to Mullaghmore
For Burren landowners:
Friday 14th July and Friday 28th July, Course fee 40 euros (one
day only)
The course will cover basic skills for building
both single and double walls using traditional methods as done for
centuries, that give the Burren it’s unique character.
We will be maintaining and rebuilding some ancient
walls near to Mullaghmore - also a fine opportunity to see the fantastic
scenery, flora and fauna of this amazing landscape.
Find out more at their
site or email
them for more info. |
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Dry Stone Walling €26.50
Ireland: Stone Walls & Fabled Landscapes €28.50
Irish Stone Walls €20.00
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| As
Used On The Famous Nelson Mandela, Wed July 12th 9pm
Afri presents MARK THOMAS in his new show As
Used On The Famous Nelson Mandela
Date: Wednesday
July 12th (9pm) at The Laughter Lounge, Eden Quay.
Admission €20
Tickets available from Afri only - call 01
882 7563 or email
them
Proceeds to support Afris work for justice,
peace and human rights. |
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As Used On the Famous Nelson Mandela €16.50
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Globalizing Resistance €25.50
Ownership, Leadership and Transformation €30.00
Petrodollar Warfare €21.00
Social Movements and State Power €27.00
Another World Is Possible €22.45
Architects of Peace €31.50
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Public
meeting on the situation in Venezuela and Latin America (Cork, Dublin,
Galway) July 11th to 13th
Latin America - A Continent in Revolt
Public meetings with Roland Denis, leading Venezuelan
activist and former member of Chavez Government, & Rory Hearne
(Attended recent World Social Forum in Venezuela)
Cork: 11 July
8pm Victoria Hotel, Patrick St, Cork
Dublin: 12 July 8pm ATGWU Hall, 55
Middle abbey St, D1
Galway: 13 July 8pm foster Court Hotel,
Foster St, Galway
All Welcome.
At this public meeting, Roland Denis, a leading
activist in Venezuela, will provide a first hand account of the
revolution in Venezuela and what is happening in Latin America. He
will also address such issues as is the Venezuelan experiment a
new socialism of the 21st Century and how real is the US threat
to invade?
Rory Hearne, who attended the World Social Forum
in Venezuela in January will speak on the international movements
and what can the movements in Ireland here learn from the struggle
of the people of Venezuela and Latin America.
Hosted by the Socialist
Workers Party
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| 10
- 11 July 2006 EU Emissions Trading 2006: Competitive and Financial
Implications
This two-day conference - the fourth
in a highly successful series from Environmental Finance Publications
- will provide an in-depth review of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme
since its launch last year. It has been timed to coincide with the
submission of Phase II national allocation plans. Leading industry
and government specialists will review the impact of the Phase I
emission limits and their hopes and fears about Phase II.
Brussels
Check their
site for more info. |
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Capturing Carbon and Conserving Biodiversity €37.45
Climate Change and Carbon Markets €112.50
Climate Change and Power €37.40
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| Solar
Water Heater Installation Courses throughout July A
solar panel can be installed on virtually any house, and if installed
during construction can pay for itself in just a few years.
This half-day workshop will look at methods
of ensuring safe and effective use of solar water heaters covering;
- Choosing a suitable system
for your needs
- Various installation options
- Considerations for panel and
water tank sizes.
- Roof-mounting options
- Ancillary equipment (differential
thermostats, pumps etc.)
- Safety and protection from
overheating, freezing, legionella and excess pressures
- Different solar panel systems
and their advantages / disadvantages
Dates: Saturdays
July 8th, 15th & 22nd, Tuesday July 18th. All courses
from 2.00pm to 6.00pm.
Venue: Ardnashee,
Coomanore North, Bantry
Fee: €40
per person, payable in advance to secure booking
For further information email Quentin
and Clare or call them on 027 52782 and leave a message.
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Solar Air Systems - A Design Handbook €90.00
Solar Energy Houses €82.50
Understanding Renewable Energy Systems €37.45
Solar Energy - the State of the Art €127.50
Tapping The Sun €5.85
Solar Water Heating: A DIY guide €10.00
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Bullying in the Workplace, Home and School €17.95
Education
for Everyone €28.50
Towards
Universal Primary Education €37.50
Weaving Connections €24.00
Win-Win Games for All Ages €12.75
Education Denied €28.45
Sustainable
Education €7.50
Preventing Violence In Our Schools €28.50
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Diversity and Inclusion
in the Early Years (international conference, June 14-16, Belfast)
Theme: Diversity
and Inclusion in the Early Years
Dates: 14 – 16 June 2006
Venue: Ramada Hotel and Queen's University
Belfast, Northern Ireland
Organised by:
NIPPA – The Early Years Organisation and the School of Education,
Queen's University Belfast.
Keynote speakers:
Professor Glenda MacNaughton, University of Melbourne; Professor
Paul Connolly and Professor Peter Clough, Queen's University Belfast
and Dr Cathy Nutbrown, University of Sheffield. These will also
be a range of seminars led by lots of other international and home
grown speakers.
Programme includes:
Master Classes targeted at organisations such as NIPPA that support
the development of practice (14th June); site visits to NIPPA member
groups; the NIPPA AGM and Gala Dinner (15th June); and keynote addresses
outlining current research and leading thinking as well as seminars
that offer practical advise, tips, techniques that early childhood
professionals can be implement fairly quickly in their own settings
(16th June).
Further details and registration on NIPPA
website and to register online go here.
Contact: for specific
inquiries please telephone Nikki Dornan on +44 (0)28 9066 2825 or
email her.
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GREEN
IRELAND CONFERENCE, Kilkenny castle, 16-18 June 2006
Branding and protection for sustainable
farming, safe food and eco-tourism
Co-hosted by GM-free Ireland and An Taisce
Complete programme + registration details here.
Ireland’s famous clean green image provides a competitive advantage
for our farming, food and tourism industries. But this could soon
be destroyed by environmental pollution and genetically modified (GM)
animal feed, seeds and crops.
The Green Ireland conference provides a historic opportunity for politicians
and stakeholders to meet with international experts to discuss solutions
and learn about our democratic legal rights and responsibilities to
determine Ireland’s food and farming future.
SPEAKERS
Vandana Shiva, Winner of the Right Livelihood
Award.
Director, Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology.
Author, Biopiracy - the plunder of nature and knowledge. (India)
Percy Schmeiser, Farmer who was sued after being contaminated by
GMO crops.
Member, International Forum for the Future of Food and Agriculture.
(Canada)
Benedikt Haerlin, Director, Foundation on Future Farming.
Co-ordinator, Save Our Seeds. (Germany)
Michel Dupont, Confédération Paysanne (France) •
Eddie Punch, Irish Cattle & Sheepfarmers Association •
Kate Carmody, Irish Organic Farmers and Growers Association •
John Brennan, Leitrim Organic Farmers Coop • Dr. Stanley Ewen,
Grampian University Hospitals Trust (UK) • Clare Oxborrow,
Friends of the Earth Europe • Frank Corcoran, European Environmental
Bureau • Michael Ewing, Centre for Sustainability, Sligo Institute
of Technology • Michael O’Callaghan, GM-free Ireland
(conference chair)
Other speakers to be announced. |
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Engineering the Farm €28.40
Genetically Modified Food €10.50
Genetically Modified Foods €16.50
Genetics €18.00
Intellectual Property, Biogenetic Resources & Traditional Knowledge €37.45
Redesigning Life? €28.45
Science, Agriculture and Research €30.00
Seeds of Deception €14.90
Genetic Engineering, Food and Our Environment €6.50
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Everybody
Serves Soup €15.00
Festivals Around the World €9.00
If the World Were a Village €10.50
My
Eyes Only Look Out €13.97
Weaving
Connections €24.00
Everyone Wins! €9.00
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Cultivate Community
Multicultural Street Festival, Saturday June 17
Saturday June 17 | 10.00 - 18.00 | Temple Bar's
West End & Cultivate's Main Hall & Civic Offices Amphitheatre
| Cost: €Free
A family-friendly, multicultural street festival
in celebration of the Summer Solstice. The festival will feature
public arts, activities for children and youth, stalls with ethnic
food and presentations from a cross-section of multicultural Dublin,
fashion market, urban sports including BMX, Parkour and Champion
Skating, eco-products, music, dance and more. Produced by Cultivate
Centre with the generous support of Dublin City Council, TASCQ and
Temple Bar Cultural Trust.
Find out more here.
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| The
Munster Show, Sunday 18th June in the Munster Showgrounds, Cork City.
It is a family event with attendance often reaching 1000
people.
This year we wish to draw particular attention
to the following important areas: renewable energies, sustainable
development, eco-housing, envionmental matters, fair trade and alternative
farm enterprises ( organics, cheese, bee-keeping etc ....)
If you are interested you can contact
Martina Beckett on:
Tel:
021-4315772
Fax:
021-4273188
Email:
corkshowgrounds@eircom.net
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Cultivating
Utopia €14.95
Earthscan
Reader in Sustainable Agriculture, The €37.45
Healthy Crops €15.00
Fatal
Harvest €50.25
Food Wars €30.00
One-Straw Revolution, The €11.90
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Building Green: A complete how-to guide to alternative building methods €29.95
Real Goods Solar Living Sourcebook - 12th Edition €37.50
Traditional Crafts of Ireland €37.45
Armchair Environmentalist, The €12.00
Earth Care Manual, The €60.00
Go M.A.D. 2 (Go Make a Difference!) €10.50
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Green Energy Fair
- Fun For All the Family! Sunday 18th June 11.00am - 6.00pm, Tote
Hall, Leopardstown Race Course, Leopardstown, Co Dublin
Free Admission!
A "Green Energy Fair" is being organised
by the Green Party on Sunday June 18th in the Tote Hall Leopardstown
Race Course, Co Dublin. At this Green Energy Fair you will find
out what you need to know about renewable energy home heating systems,
new grants available to householders for installing these new heating
systems and other exciting new technologies that will help you save
money on your electricity and heating bills. There will also be
a range of craftwork, organic food produce, and other interesting
stalls to browse. It will be a great Family Day out with Face-Painting
and Bouncy Castles for the kids! Hope to see you there on the day!!
- Renewable Energy Home Heating
systems!
- Green Building technologies
!
- Information on grants available!
- Face Painting!
- Bouncy Castles!
- Organic Food Stalls!
- Crafts!
- Home-Baking!
If you are interested in having a stall there
on the day, email
Ciaran Cuffe |
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| National
Green Roof Conference - June 20-21 2006, University of Sheffield
Green roofs are attracting great interest because
of their contribution to sustainable construction and development.
The National Green Roof Conference at the University of Sheffield,
organised jointly with Livingroofs.org, presents a range of internationally-recognised
speakers who will give an authorative overview of green roof benefits,
functions and case studies. The main aim of the conference is to
attract wide participation. If people are interested in bringing
a team from their region or organisation to the conference to find
out more about what green roofs can offer your area, we can offer
up to three free places for every paying place. Further details
at the conference
website. |
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Planting Green Roofs and Living Walls €37.50
Building Green: A guide to using plants on roofs, walls and pavements €19.40
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Capturing Carbon and Conserving Biodiversity €37.45
Cities People Planet €30.00
Climate Change and Carbon Markets €112.50
How We Can Save the Planet €12.00
Oil Addiction €22.40
Tale of a City €19.50
Walking the Talk €32.90
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RETHINKING
THE CITY: TOWARDS ZERO-CARBON CITIES
June 22, 2006 | Dublin | 9:00-17:30 | Cultivate
Centre | Temple Bar
Featuring leading speakers and case studies
from Ireland and the UK. A full day conference hosted by Cultivate
Centre and British Council Ireland
Where could YOUR city be in twenty years? Where
SHOULD it be?
What is being done now to get there?
How do we link efforts across sectors and interests?
What needs to change to allow us to reach our
goal?
Featured Presentations will examine the issues
from the global and city scale to individual buildings, transport,
and the integration of systems to create healthy, low carbon communities.
Speakers will include:
- Dick Gleeson, City Planner
Dublin
- Oxford City Councilor Susan
Roaf, Producer of the Recent “Solar Cities” world
conference
- Paul Evans, INREB Faraday
Partnership, UK
- Gavin Killip, Senior Researcher:
“40% House”, University of Oxford, Environmental Change
Institute
- Councilor David Healy, Fingal
County
- and others.....
Bookings: Corporate €175.00 / Concession
€ 135.00 / Individual €150.00
phone 01 674 5773 or email
them
See website
for programme, speakers, and more. |
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- 24 June 2006 InterSolar 2006
Freiburg, Germany
Intersolar is Europe's largest international
trade fair for solar Technology. Its focus lies on photovoltaics,
solar thermal technology and solar architecture.
Intersolar is the only European solar technology
fair which has been recognized as an international trade fair by
both the German Trade Fair Industry Association (AUMA) and the World
Organization for Trade Fairs and Exhibitions (UFI).
Find out more here. |
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Solar Thermal Technologies for Buildings €97.50
Solaro €55.00
Solar House, The €37.50
Solar Installations €52.50
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The
North Cork Organic Group Day Seminar - Fuelling the Future at Local
Level NCOG, 24th June
This year the seminar is focusing on the up
coming energy crisis and the need for communities to get ready.
We were Inspired and assisted by the success of the Conference Fuelling
the Future held last year in Kinsale.
The seminar is a follow on from the Kinsale
Conference. It will discuss our huge dependence on oil and oil related
products. The focus will be on looking at alternatives to oil both
from the high tech products such as solar, wind, geothermal etc
as well as powering down using low technology solutions e.g. getting
rid of car, grow your own food etc. A broad range of solutions will
be discussed. We will look at house design old and new, buildings
directives, as well as what individuals and community members can
do to bring about change that will enable us to survive the oil
peak…... The cost of the seminar is €30 and will take
place in the Nano Nagle Centre on the 24th June. We expect that
demand will be huge so book early.
Contact Howard and Lorraine Marshell for details
at Rockmills, Kildorrery, Co Cork. Tel. 022 25007.
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End
of Oil, The €13.50
Half
Gone €19.50
Hubbert`s
Peak €16.45
Long Emergency, The €19.50
Oil
€15.00
Oil Addiction €22.40
Oil
Crisis €30.00
Twilight in the Desert €24.00
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GOOD Shopping Guide, The (4th Ed) €19.45
Hope in the Dark €12.00
In
the Way of Development €28.45
Manifesto
for the Earth €13.50
Video
For Change €22.50
Grip of Death, The €22.50
Towards a Culture of Human Rights in Ireland €15.00
Business and Human Rights €29.90
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Global Human
Rights Protection – the way forward (June 24, Dublin)
8th Annual NGO Forum on Human Rights, will
take place on 24 June in Croke Park, Dublin
The Forum is intended to facilitate a broad-based
but focused discussion on a range of human rights issues, with the
emphasis primarily on foreign policy.
This event acts as a vital link between the
Department and all those active in the field of human rights, on
both the domestic and foreign fronts.
Issues will be addressed by a number of keynote
speakers and in panel format. There will be a keynote address by
the Nobel Laureate and Foreign Minister of Timor Leste, Mr Jose
Ramos-Horta and the panels will be comprised of a broad range of
international and national human rights experts, NGOs, academics,
diplomats and business representatives.
A copy of the full programme is available here.
For more details and registration form contact
Ms Celia Cranfield on 01 408 2364 or email
her.
The closing date for the receipt of completed
registration forms is 31 May.
Please note that as space is limited only those who return completed
registrations by the deadline can be considered for a place at the
Forum.
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24.06.
- 25.06.2006 BorderTrek 2006
BorderTrek is the 2 day 206 mile bike
ride organised annually by Co-operation Ireland. The first day follows
a 102 mile route from Enniskillen to Sligo, with the second day
following a 104 mile route starting in Sligo and finishing in Enniskillen.
Website: www.cooperationireland.org
Contact: Co-operation Ireland Glendinning
House 6 Murray Street Belfast BT1 6DN
Phone: 0044 (0)28 903 21462
Email: events@cooperationireland.org
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Complete Bike Book €25.50
Let's Co-operate €10.50
Bike Repair Manual €12.00
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| Saudi
Arabia – Can It Deliver? Audio Conference, Thursday June 29
th 2006 17.00 GMT
ASPO Ireland is holding an Audio Conference
entitled: Saudi Arabia – Can It Deliver?
Presented by Jack Zagar, Consulting Petroleum
Engineer
Jack Zagar has worked in the Kingdom managing
some of the super giant oil fields, will provide a perspective that
throws into question Saudi Arabia’s long term ability to sustain
or increase their current oil production capacity of 10 million
barrels per day.
Increasingly, the world is looking to OPEC and
specifically to Saudi Arabia to increase oil exports to cool soaring
oil prices and to foster continued growth in global economies.
With perhaps as much as a quarter of the World’s
remaining conventional oil reserves, will or can Saudi Arabia provide
the additional oil production?
Tickets are €50.00
local dial in numbers available where possible
Click here
to book |
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Animals` Lawsuit Against Humanity, The €19.50
Blood and Oil €13.50
High Noon For Natural Gas €19.45
Hubbert`s Peak €16.45
Oil €15.00
Out of Gas €13.50
Twilight in the Desert €24.00
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Harbour Nature and Art Project: Sirius Arts Centre call for ideas
to develop a project from now to Friday 30th June 2006
The Sirius Arts Centre is putting a call out
for ideas to be developed in 2007 for a wide reaching project for
2008. This project will explore ideas around Nature and Art in Cork
Harbour.
Cork Harbour is one of the largest natural harbours
in the world, it boasts a unique combination of outstanding natural
heritage, a rapidly expanding industrial and commercial community
and is one of the busiest ports in Ireland. This combination lends
itself perfectly to an exploration of these different environmental
forces.
Visual artists, film makers, musicians, naturalists,
lecturers, illustrators, scientists, environmentalists, writers,
industrialists, youth workers, councilors, etc. can put a written
proposal, with support material (any visual, written, sound based,
or other material which is relevant to their proposal) into Cork
Harbour Nature and Art Project, Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh Co. Cork
by 5pm Friday June 30th 2006.
Selected ideas will be developed through 2007
with a view to participation in this project in 2008.
A self addressed envelope must be enclosed for return of material,
and make sure you include your contact details.
Please note that the closing date for residency
and exhibition applications at the Sirius Arts Centre for 2007 is
5pm Friday 2nd of June 2006.
For further information please contact:
Sarah Iremonger or Suzanne Mac Dermot, Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh,
Co Cork
phone on 021 4813 790, email
them or check their
site
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Andy Goldsworthy €75.00
Carving
Found Wood €26.25
Carving Wood Spirits in Tree Bark €19.45
Celtic Designs €8.25
Extreme Pumpkin Carving €14.95
Hundertwasser €15.00
Sticks
and Stones €13.50
Wood - Andy Goldsworthy €75.00
Living Willow Sculpture €11.95
Images Of Earth & Spirit €30.00
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ENERGEX
2006, 12th-15th June 2006, Stavanger, Norway
SINTEF Energy Research, Stavanger Forum
and The International Energy Foundation (IEF) are pleased to invite
you to ENERGEX 2006
This is the 11th conference in the series, which
recognised as the leading international forum for presentations
and discussions on energy consumption, production and climate change.
The theme for energex 2006 is energy systems
in transition towards sustainable development. Business, policy,
technology and science are all part of the solution for sustainable
development, and are equally important elements at energex 2006.
Previous conference venues in the series include
Las Vegas, USA (2000), Krakow, Poland (2002), and Lisbon, Portugal
(2004). Future events are scheduled for Canada (2007), Austria (2008)
and the UK (2009).
Registration and call for papers are now open.
The deadline for submitting abstracts is 1 February 2006.
Attendance at ENERGEX 2006 is a must for Energy
sector professionals, Politicians, Government, Academics, Researchers,
Consultants, Industry and Employees in organizations and Unions.
For further information and contact details
concerning the conference and exhibition email
them or check their website.
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Advances
in Solar Energy Volume 16 €225.00
Biodiesel
€19.45
Oil Crisis €30.00
Power
to the People €30.00
Switching to Renewable Power €75.00
Twilight
in the Desert €24.00
Understanding Renewable Energy Systems €37.45
Final
Energy Crisis, The €24.00
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Sustainable Drainage Systems €165.00
Water - The No-Nonsense Guide to.. €10.50
Water and the Environment €150.00
Water Book, The €20.00
Water Manifesto, The €15.00
Water Watching €14.95
Water: Use less, save more €5.95
When the Rivers Run Dry €28.50
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Environmental
Enforcement Network Water Conference, 13th and 14th June 2006 at
the Galway Bay Hotel, Salthill, Galway
Water Quality - meeting the targets set by
legislation
The focus of this year’s conference will
be on achieving water quality improvements - and, particularly,
on achieving the targets set out in the Phosphorus Regulations,
1998 and the Water Framework Directive.
The Phosphorus Regulations were brought in to
tackle the increasing problem of eutrophication in Ireland's rivers
and lakes. Local authorities have the primary responsibility for
ensuring that the standards set by the Regulations are met by 2007.
The EPA recently published a National Implementation
Report on the Phosphorus Regulations - based largely on local authority
reports submitted in 2004. An overview will be presented of the
report and this will be an opportunity to facilitate discussion
of the conclusions and recommendations of the report, on-going water
improvement measures and the legislation that must be implemented
to improve water quality.
Another major focus of the conference will be
the Water Framework Directive. The conference provides an opportunity
for all interested parties to hear about the on-going work in implementing
this important Directive and the implications that the Directive
will have for local authorities.
The conference provides a platform for further
developing co-operation and a network based approach to enforcement
between the various enforcement agencies involved in the enforcement
of water protection legislation, so that a higher and more consistent
standard of enforcement throughout the country is achieved.
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14.04.
- 17.04.2006 North Leitrim Glens Hillwalking Festival
Hillwalking festival with a range of guided walks including challenging
hill walks and country rambles in the spectacular uplands of North
Leitrim.
Contact: Holey Soles Hillwalking
Club (Helena Corcoran)
Killinagh, Blacklion, Co. Cavan
Phone: 353 (0)71 9853116
Email: corskyph@eircom.net
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Best Irish Walks €12.99
Hillwalkers Handbook, The €19.50
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Ethical
Travel Guide, The €19.50
Green Travel Guide, The €22.50
Ireland: Tourism and Marketing €14.99
Native
Tourist, The €30.00
Good Alternative Travel Guide, The €19.50
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Wednesday April
19 at Cultivate titled 'Rethinking Tourism: Visiting Future Ireland'
An afternoon session exploring how high energy
prices and climate change will affect Irish tourism.
Rethinking Tourism is a workshop to identify
challenges, stimulate discussion and explore solutions about the
“new future” for Irish tourism. Rapidly rising oil and
gas prices and repeated warnings on the likely severity of climate
change are increasingly underscored by news events. There can be
no doubt that the twinned issues, both rooted in our historic relationship
to energy sources and uses, will redefine virtually every aspect
of our lives.
This workshop will explore these questions;
demonstrate best practice and share ideas to find the best way forward.
For further information contact cecelia@sustainable.ie
or call 01 674 6396
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Every
Child Needs a Teacher: global action week (April 24-30)
The Irish Coalition for the Global Campaign
for Education (GCE) is organising Global Action Week for Education
for All from the 24th to 30th April 2006. The theme is 'Every Child
Needs a Teacher'.
Right
now, over 100 million children wake up every day without the hope
that education offers. For another 140 million children lack of
teachers, classrooms and text books means that their education is
of a poor quality.
School students and their teachers are being
asked to learn about the education problems facing poor countries
and the situation of teachers. They are being urged to communicate
their concerns to elected representatives at all levels - local
authorities, Dáil, Seanad and European Parliament.
Members of the Irish Coalition include teachers'
unions, development agencies, the youth sector and student organisations.
Leaflets and posters for Global Action Week
can be downloaded from the website |
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Culture Counts €26.95
Education for Everyone €28.50
If
the World Were a Village €10.50
Towards
Universal Primary Education €37.50
How To Improve Your School €16.99
Education Denied €28.45
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The
West Wicklow Walking Festival (April 28 - May 1)
Wicklow County Tourism is delighted to
present The West Wicklow Walking Festival, which this year takes
place between 28th April - 1st May 2006 in Kippure Estate, backdrop
for famous films such as Braveheart, beginning with a unique night
walk and Druidic Opening Ceremony under the guiding light of the
night sky.
For information on, or bookings for the West
Wicklow Walking Festival visit www.visitwicklow.ie
or tel: 00 353 (0) 404 20070. |
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Walking
and Orienteering €13.50
Cutting Your Car Use €5.90
Walking For Health €22.50
Hillwalkers
Handbook, The €19.50
Walking Across Ireland €15.00
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Cloth
Nappy Fashion Show (April 30th, Dublin)
Real nappies are becoming more and more
popular as parents realise the importance of making ecologically
sound decisions for their children. As yet there has been very little
awareness of where and how cloth nappies can be bought and how they
have evolved.
EcologiKids is proud to announce the very first
Irish Real Nappy Fashion Show. Taking place in the Gymboree Play
& Learn Centre in Spawell Leisure Centre, Templeogue, Dublin
6W on Sunday 30th April 2006 at 12:00 noon.
Parents will be able to view the nappies both
on models and up close and have any questions they may have answered
by our experienced nappy advisers.
Before and throughout the fashion show, Gymboree
staff will be entertaining and stimulating our young minds with
music and songs to keep the mood festive and fun filled - a happy
nappy party for kids and parents alike!!
Contact EcologiKids
for more information on this event or about real nappies and the
choices YOU have.
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Baby
Sign Language Basics €10.50
Imse
Vimse Biodegradable Liners (200 baby) €4.25
Mini Baby Countdown Clock Kit €10.35
Natural
Baby €19.50
Your
Baby`s First Year €28.50
Organic
Baby Book, The €11.90
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Cost of Waste Disposal: Sherkin Island Marine Station's 22nd Annual
Environmental Conference - Thursday 4th and Friday 5th May 2006
Carrigaline Court Hotel, Carrigaline,
Co Cork.
The conference was prompted by the spiralling
costs of waste disposal in Ireland and abroad. Some of the questions
that need to be asked include:
- what is the cost and effectiveness
of recycling;
- how are the public and private
sectors coping with the huge volumes of waste and the new regulations
being enforced;
- what is the way forward so
that the best environmental practices can be utilised?
The line up of national and international speakers
at the conference will endeavour to answer some of these questions
and their papers promise to provide an interesting and informative
debate on the subject. These speakers are from the U.S., Germany,
Switzerland, the UK and Ireland. We feel that their papers are very
relevant in Ireland today.
For more details visit www.sherkinmarine.ie |
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Awesome Things To Make With Recycled Stuff €15.00
Facility Siting €82.50
Factor Four €25.50
Recycle Rubbish €9.00
Zero Waste €21.80
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle! €5.90
Saving the Planet Without Costing the Earth €18.00
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Kilns €22.50
Complete Illustrated Guide to Sharpening €44.95
World Textiles €24.45
Willow Weaving €10.50
Understanding
Power €16.50
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CELT Weekend in
the Woods / Countryside Skills Training
6th-7th May 2006
Another big weekend of traditional and ecological
skills training at all levels for adults (age 14+).
CELT presents, in association with Muintir
na Coille (Coppice and Allied Trades Association), choice of 15
courses in environmental and ecological trades for all levels. Trainees
already having basic skills are welcome to develop their skills
further with the guidance of the highly qualified tutors.
Find out more here.
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BUILDING
WITH HEMP- Monday 8th to Friday 12th May 2006
By Steve Allin
This fascinating course run by hemp expert
Steve Allin, author of the book 'Building with Hemp', is being held
at Anam Cré Studio, in County Kerry, Ireland. The week will
consist of an intensive introduction to the materials, method and
use of hemp/lime design and construction. The course will cover
design and framework aspects of hempbuilding, with an element of
hands-on experience in mixing and applying hemp cast walls on site.
Hemp plastering, hemp finishes & lime paints will also be covered,
as will manufacture of hemp block & hempcrete floorlaying, it
will also consist of a visit to view a hemp building in progress.
Included with the course is accommodation,
self-service breakfast and light lunch daily at Anam Cré
Studio, a beautiful purpose built residential centre nestled in
silver birchwoods in Ballygriffin valley, three miles from the heritage
town of Kenmare in Co. Kerry, situated on the mouth of the kenmare
river estuary. To check out the venue visit www.kenmare-pottery.com
Course dates
: Monday 8th to Friday 12th May 2006 , at Anam Cré, Rusheens,
Kenmare, Co. Kerry, Ireland.
Cost of 5 day Course
: 400 Euro ($ 495) (includes accommodation & breakfast, lunch)
To book
email: hempbuilding@eircom.net
or write to Steve Allin, Rusheens, Kenmare, Co. Kerry, Ireland.
Tel : 00 353 64 41747.
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Building With Hemp €35.00
Hemp Handbook, The €16.50
Hemp Manifesto, The €10.50
Great Book of Hemp, The €24.00
Hemp Horizons €22.40
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Micro-hydro
Pelton Turbine Manual, The €38.90
Wind Power Plants €41.25
Wind Power €52.50
Pumps
as Turbines €14.90 |
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8 - 11 May
2006 ASME
Turbo 2006
Power for Land, Sea and Air
Barcelona International Convention Center (CCIB), Barcelona, Spain
The 51st Annual Technical Congress & Exposition
for the Worldwide Gas Turbine Community. With a tentative theme
of "The Global Market and Cooperative Ventures."
The Turbo Expo Technical Congress encompasses
all applications of gas turbines, including industrial cogeneration,
oil and gas, marine, aerospace, and commercial power markets, as
well as microturbines and fuel cell hybrids for distributed generation.
Find out more here.
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| 8
& 19 May 2006 INVESTING IN EUROPEAN R&D
Perspectives on FP7, Corporate Strategy and
Financial Markets
This event will be highly relevant to
venture capitalists, those involved in financing and sourcing finance
for research and/or development operations and R&D representatives
from all sectors, but particularly those from energy and telecommunications
organisations. SMEs seeking finance and investment will also benefit
from attending this conference, as will academics, researchers,
NGOs and think tanks.
There are sponsorship opportunities available
for this event. Please contact James Wilmott on +44 (0) 2920 642
704 for further details or check
this link. |
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How to Win Campaigns €25.50
Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises and the Environment €52.50
Sustainable Technology Development €52.50
Walking the Talk €32.90
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Green
Week 2006 - Biodiversity Is Life Conference - 30th May - 2nd June
2006
Biological diversity, or biodiversity, is the
rich variety of species, ecosystems and genes that forms the web
of life on which we all depend.
Europe hosts a unique biodiversity. However,
loss of biodiversity has accelerated to an unprecedented level,
both in Europe and worldwide. It has been estimated that the current
rate of global extinction is 50-1,000 times above the natural rate.
The main causes of biodiversity loss are well
known. The principal cause is the destruction, degradation and fragmentation
of wildlife habitats. Other pressures include over-exploitation
of certain species, the spread of invasive alien species and pollution.
These direct pressures reflect a range of underlying driving forces,
including demographic changes, economic and sectoral development,
technology and social and cultural factors.
The EU's leaders agreed in 2001 to halt the
loss of biodiversity in the EU by 2010 and to restore habitats and
natural systems.
The timescale for delivering on this commitment
has now reached the halfway mark. However, the decline is continuing
and is far from halted. The Green Week 2006 conference programme
therefore looks at key aspects of EU biodiversity policy and potential
approaches for strengthening cooperation with stakeholders to ensure
the 2010 target is reached. The programme is structured around four
main strands:
- Biodiversity: a global issue
- Managing natural resources
- Space for nature
- Biodiversity and society.
The four strands will address the issues on
the basis of a consistent approach:
- Analysing problems;
- Making things happen; and
- Acting together.
For more information see their
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Beyond Conservation €30.00
Biodiversity and Traditional Knowledge €59.95
Capturing Carbon and Conserving Biodiversity €37.45
Conserving Forest Biodiversity €38.90
Creating A Flower Meadow €14.90
Ecoagriculture €30.75
How
to win: Saving wildlife sites €7.50
Irish
Hedgerows €12.50
Tomorrow`s
Biodiversity €11.95
Future
Nature €25.50
Countryside Planning €37.45
Improving
Biodiversity On Organic Farms €6.00
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Business of Climate Change, The €60.00
Limits to Growth €22.50
Putting Partnerships to Work €60.00
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1 - 2 June
2006 Climate Change & Investment 2006
asset allocation in a carbon-constrained
world
Following the huge success of the inaugural
Climate Change & Investment last year, this two-day conference
from Environmental Finance Publications will provide an invaluable
update on how the current intense focus on global warming is affecting
institutional investors and the companies in which they invest.
Top-level specialists will outline recent developments in this complex
area to help companies and investors discover the strategies they
will need to adopt to succeed in this new environment. London
Find out more here.
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11th
Sustainable Living Festival: 'Learning to Live With Less Fossil
Fuels', April 19-23, 2006
Responding to Climate Change and
Peak Oil
Throughout 2006 the Cultivate Centre for Sustainable
Living and Learning in
Dublin will focus on raising awareness about how we can respond
to peak oil
and climate change. Over the year the centre will facilitate an
exploration
into the actions that can be taken at an individual, community,
national and
international level to reduce our dependency on fossil fuel.
The event will open on Wednesday the 19th with
a lecture by British
economist Dr David Fleming. Fleming is an independent writer in
the fields
of energy, environment, economics, society and culture and has recently
published Energy
and the Common Purpose.
An open space conference entitled ‘Skilling
Up For Power Down’ will be held
on Friday the 21st of April and aims to bring together the people
working on
initiatives that can help us move away from our dependence on fossil
fuels.
An eco-building conference entitled ‘Cultivate
Green Builders’ will explore our energy, materials and retrofit
options for our homes on Saturday the 22nd of April.
Other events include ‘Slow Down Sunday’
a family friendly day celebrating local food and relaxation, a conference
for design and planning professionals, a workshop exploring the
impact of high energy prices on tourism and more.
Full details will be posted on
their site or you can email
them with queries.
Directions:
All events in the Convergence festival take place in the heart of
Dublin city at the Cultivate Centre for Sustainable Living and Learning
in Temple Bar.
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End
of Oil, The €13.50
Energy Beyond Oil €24.00
Half Gone €19.50
Island Planet €18.75
Long Emergency, The €19.50
Oil
Addiction €22.40
Powerdown €16.45
Twilight in the Desert €24.00
Winning the Oil Endgame €74.95
Final Energy Crisis, The €24.00
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End of Oil, The €13.50
High
Noon For Natural Gas €19.45
Island Planet €18.75
Power to the People €31.00
Renewable Energy €42.00
Renewable Energy in Europe €52.50
Renewable
Energy Policy and Politics €60.00
Solar Economy, The €28.50
Solar Manifesto, A €25.50
Switching to Renewable Power €75.00
Before The Wells Run Dry €15.00
Earth Care Manual, The €60.00
Permaculture in a Nutshell €7.40
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"The Heresy
of 'Business as Usual' - The Looming Energy Crisis and How We Can
Deal With It" April - May
Síol Chíarraí /
Friends of the Earth South Kerry are very pleased to announce a
series of talks in Killarney by internationally renowned speakers
analysing the looming energy crisis and offering practical suggestions
of how we as individuals, communities and nations can address these
crucial issues. The venue for all events is KDYS Killarney Youth
Centre, next to the Franciscan Friary, in the centre of Killarney.
The talks are free of charge though any donations will be appreciated.
All are welcome are to attend.
Saturday, 22nd April
@ 2pm "Lean Energy: A Grand Strategy for the Future of Energy"
by David Fleming
Thursday 25th May
@ 8 pm “Peak Opportunity - Food, Energy and Community”
by Graham Strauts
Economist David Fleming’s presentation
"Lean Energy: A Grand Strategy for the Future of Energy"
coincides with World Earth Day. Grand strategy is the art of getting
intended results and avoiding unintended ones. You don't achieve
a grand strategy by doing the obvious thing. Ireland is facing an
energy problem much worse than is generally recognised, but effective
responses are there to be invented. This evening's discussion of
unexpected energy solutions considers how this could happen. –
This event is jointly organised with Cultivate
– The Centre for Sustainability in Dublin.
Graham Strouts, Co-ordinator of the Practical
Sustainability Course will speak on “Peak Opportunity - Food,
Energy and Community”. The world is reaching a turning point.
Having created a society almost completely dependent on cheap fossil
fuels for nearly every aspect of its economy, we our now facing
an uncertain future with rising fuel prices, shortages and eventually
rationing. In this talk, Graham will explain why the crisis is happening
and what communities around the world are doing to prepare. He will
discuss the approach offered by Permaculture, a system of sustainable
design, and talk about the Kinsale Energy Descent Action Plan. -
This series of events is not to be missed!
More info from:
Eckhard
Ladner (064) 34148 / (087) 6107295
Pádraig
O’ Donoghue (064) 43267
Sarah O’ Brien @ (087) 2802378
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April
2006 - AN TAISCE NATIONAL SPRING CLEAN 2006 NEEDS VOLUNTEERS
For the eighth year running the National Spring Clean takes place
this April. It is Ireland’s largest nation-wide anti-litter
campaign and it aims to:
- Encourage clean-ups within
communities nationwide throughout the whole month of April
- Create awareness of the impacts
of litter on the natural environment and on our community
- Promote a personal responsibility
for litter
- Galvanise the practice of
recycling and re-using waste where possible
To register to take part in the National Spring Clean simply call
01 4002 220 or email your details to nsc@antaisce.org.
Register now to receive your free clean-up kit. Claire Lyons, National
Spring Clean Officer, Environmental Education Unit, An Taisce |
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Rubbish Disposal €19.50
Rubbish! €12.00
Stormy Weather €23.25
Naturally Clean Home, The €13.50
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February-May
2006: Seminars in Environmental Law at UL
The International Commercial and Economic Law
Research Group at the University of Limerick will run a series of
seminars on environmental law in the Spring 2006 semester. These
seminars will deal with issues such as climate change, environmental
enforcement in Ireland, fisheries in the national and international
contexts and recent developments in domestic environmental law.
TIMETABLE OF EVENTS:
- Climate Change: The Irish
Response, Date: Thursday 16 February 2006, Speaker:
Rónán Kennedy, School of Law, University of Limerick
- Environmental Enforcement
In Ireland, Date: Thursday 9 March 2006, Speaker: Dr. Matt Crowe,
Environmental Protection Agency
- Fisheries In Ireland: Lessons
From North America, Date: Thursday 27 April 2006, Speaker: Professor
Katrina Wyman, School of Law, New York University
- Environmental Impact Assessments,
Date: May 2006, Speaker : Garrett Simons, BL
(All events are subject to change)
Further details of the Seminars are available
here or from the Project Leader:
Rónán Kennedy, ICELRG, School of Law, University of
Limerick. Email: ronan.kennedy@ul.ie
Further information on the International Commercial
and Economic Law Research Group is available by contacting Raymond
J Friel, Director, ICELRG, School of Law, University of Limerick.
Email: raymond.friel@ul.ie.
Limerick. |
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Environmental and Land Use Law €320.00
Environmental Law €42.00
Environmental Law - A Glossary and Handbook €204.00
Greening International Law €34.43
Guide to EC Environmental Law, A €34.45
Irish Laws €7.50
Just Law €13.50
Lawless
World €19.50
Wild Law €14.90
What is the Law - Do You Require Planning Permission? €49.00
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April
2-4 Ireland’s Response to Peak Oil, Dublin [Campbell]
Details to follow.
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Oil Crisis €30.00
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Industry Genius €22.40
Corporate Responsibility Code Book, The €75.00
Buying into the Environment €52.50
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GREEN PUBLIC
PROCUREMENT - TURNING POLICY INTO PRACTICE CONFERENCE, GRAZ, AUSTRIA
3-4 APRIL 2006
The European Commission is pleased to
invite purchasers and policy makers from local, regional and national
governments, the private sector, consultancy firms and international
networks, to this high-level event on green public procurement (GPP),
hosted by the Austrian Presidency.
The conference will focus on strategies
and examples for the implementation of green public procurement
which further the introduction and penetration of the market for
environmentally compatible products, services and technologies in
Europe. The conference in Graz follows up on the United Kingdom
Presidency event, held in London in October 2005, where results
of a 2005 European Commission survey on the state of play on green
public procurement in all 25 Member States were presented. It is
clear from this survey that public authorities across the European
Union can still do more for the environment and eco-innovation.
Sustainable Procurement Team e.mail: gpp2006@iclei-europe.org
www.iclei.org/itc/gpp2006
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Contact
Making Seminar for European Youth Exchanges (April 4-7, Bettystown,
Co. Meath)
Is your organisation interested in developing
a YOUTH Exchange and do you need to find international contacts?
Are you interested in exploring Cultural Diversity? Would you like
to meet new people from all over Europe?
Contact Making Seminar:
Exploring Cultural Diversity for youth organisations interested
in developing YOUTH exchange projects within the European Youth
Programme in Bettystown, Ireland.
Target Group:
Voluntary and professional Youth workers and leaders Working directly
with young people aged 15-25 years.
When: 4th - 7th
April 2006
Where: The Village
Hotel, Bettystown, Co. Meath.
Our Aims:
- To bring youth workers, working
with similar groups to share experiences and develop YOUTH exchanges
together.
- To create an atmosphere of
common understanding, respect, and recognition between people
representing different cultures, working styles, social class
etc. in order to build a stronger understanding of the different
cultures which are represented within Europe.
- To identify the existing
common ground between the participants.
- To provide an opportunity
to Learn new skills and sharing your experiences.
- Develop projects & ideas
for exchanges with young people.
- To provide the space for
participants to explore and strengthen their confidence in organising
and undertaking Youth Exchanges.
- To explore the different
non-formal / experiential education methods that can be used to
explore Cultural Diversity during an Youth Exchange.
Content: During
the event, the creation of new partnerships is central. Participants
are going to work together on a project, using their existing knowledge
centred around cultural diversity and through this they will form
new connections.
We envisage several concrete projects to be
explored and developed; this will give greater insight into good
practice in youth exchanges.
How to Apply:
contact Mieke McMahon for application form and more details
by emailing
or phoning 061 927039.
Closing Date for selected applications 9th March
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Biological and Cultural Diversity €25.40
Classroom Communication & Diversity €33.75
Culture Counts €26.95
If the World Were a Village €10.50
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Biopiracy €11.90
Farmageddon €16.50
Science, Agriculture and Research €30.00
Seeds of Deception €14.90
Genetic Engineering, Food and Our Environment €6.50
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March for a GMO-free
Europe: 5 April, Vienna, Austria
The Government of Austria, which holds the current
Presidency of the EU, will host a European conference on the so-called
"co-existence" of GMO crops with conventional and organic
farming from 4-6 April in Vienna. This comes right after the meetings
of the Biosafety Protocol and the Biodiversity Convention in Brazil
(13-31 March).
On 5 April, farming groups, food producers, consumer organisations
and citizens from EU member states will hold a historic March for
a GMO-free Europe outside the conference venue to demonstrate the
European-wide rejection of the concept of "co-existence"
and to demand EC legal protection of GMO-free regions and a legal
framework that recognises the democratic right of European Regions,
Local Authorities and smaller areas to ban GMO crops if they wish
to do so.
To sign the GM-Free Ireland Petition visit gmfreeireland's
site.
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End
of Oil, The €13.50
Energy Beyond Oil €24.00
Essence of Oil and Gas Depletion, The €49.50
Half
Gone €19.50
Long
Emergency, The €19.50
Oil Addiction €22.40
Oil
Crisis €30.00
Twilight in the Desert €24.00
Winning the Oil Endgame €74.95
Final Energy Crisis, The €24.00
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The
Global Energy Picture, April 5th 2006
Business Forum & Public Seminar
Energy Futures will be launched on the 5th of
April. They'll be holding two events The Global Energy Picture Business
Forum from 2-4pm in 15 Stephens Green, Dublin 2 and The Global Energy
Picture Public Seminar from 8-10pm in the The Mansion House, Dublin
2.
Public Seminar
Imagine 40% of Ireland unable to heat their
homes, or petrol €5 a liter at the pump, and cheap air travel
a thing of the past. The world as we know it is moving from an era
of cheap abundant energy to an era of scare hard to get, expensive
energy. Ireland is now the 7th most dependent oil economy in the
world and with no security of supply what kind of future do we face?
These are questions that affect you and your
children. Energy Future presents The Global Energy Picture Public
Seminar with leading voices in the energy field to answer these
questions.
Chaired by David McWilliams this program will
include:
- The Dawn of the second half
of the Oil age
- What is Oil Peak and when
will it happen?
- How will Irish consumers
wean themselves off their oil intensive lifestyles?
- The future of energy solutions
For more information check
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Voices:
Banúlacht International Women's Day Conference (March 8, Dublin)
Marino Institute of Education, Griffith
Avenue, Dublin 9
on Wednesday 8th March 2006
9.30 a.m. to 4.30 p.m., followed by reception.
A
conference to celebrate women's voices and women's activism locally
and
globally, to link local and global issues and to inspire women working
at
local level in Ireland.
For more information contact Melissa Boteach
at 01 882 7390 or email
her.
For more information about Banúlacht,
check their website. |
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Defiant Irish Women €9.95
Liberty for Women €22.35
Teachings
of the Wisewomen €13.45
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Creating Wealth from Waste €17.90
Waste Disposal €10.50
Zero Waste €21.80
Work from Waste €60.40
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The Irish
Recycling and Waste Management exhibition
at RDS, Dublin, on March 8th and 9th,
2006
The Irish Recycling & Waste Management (IRWM) takes place at
the RDS in Dublin on the 8th and 9th of March. IRWM is the trade
event dedicated to professionals responsible for managing water,
waste, recycling and environmental issues, ideas and solutions under
one roof.
Entry is FREE and full details of what's on
show can be found at http://www.environment-ireland.com/,
or call 01 284 5878 to receive a show newsletter and registration
form.
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Global
Corruption, Global Response (13 March, Dublin)
Numerous tribunals, conventions, laws
and institutions have been established in Ireland and around the
world to fight corruption. Yet corruption is perceived to be as
prevalent as ever. If this is so, then what is being done and more
importantly, what more needs to be done?
An expert panel, chaired by RTE's Rodney Rice,
will discuss the impact that reform has had on levels of corruption
in Ireland and elsewhere during an evening seminar titled Global
Corruption, Global Response
on 13 March at Trinity College Dublin.
Attendance is free but spaces are limited and
anyone interested in attending should register with Transparency
International Ireland early to avoid disappointment. The seminar
will be quickly followed by TI Ireland's first AGM, where TI Ireland's
Board of Directors will be elected for the first time.
Membership discounts will be offered those attending
the AGM and members are also welcome to nominate themselves for
any position on the TI Ireland Board by notifying John Devitt. The
AGM will be followd by a wine reception.
The event will be held at: The Printing House,
Trinity College Dublin
- directions at: www.tcd.ie/Maps/printing.html
Discussion: 6pm
to 7.30pm
AGM and Reception: 7.30pm to 8pm
For more info contact John Devitt at 608 3705
or info@transparency.ie |
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Global Corruption Report 2006, The €30.00
Global Governance €12.00
Corporate Responsibility Code Book, The €75.00
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- 14 March 2006 Corporate Responsibility 2006
Emerging Risks and Evolving Responsibilities
Chatham House, London
Corporate Responsibility 2006 is the eighth
in Chatham House’s highly successful CR series of major international
conferences. Now a well-established feature on the business scene,
corporate responsibility is a key strategic issue for companies
across all sectors, from SMEs to global corporations. This conference
will examine key areas where companies face increasing scrutiny,
in an environment where even the smallest business decision on the
ground can affect the way a company is viewed globally.
Speakers include:
- Malcolm Wicks MP, Minister
of State (Energy), Department of Trade and Industry
- John Elkington, Founder and
Chairman, SustainAbility
- Dr Alan Knight, Head of Corporate
Social Responsibility, SABMiller plc
- Georg Kell, Executive Head,
UN Global Compact
- David Nussbaum, Chief Executive
Officer, Transparency International
- Paul Grimes, Chief Operating
Officer, FTSE Group
For further information please email Dino
Ribeiro or check
their site. |
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Dancing with the Tiger €35.25
What Matters Most €15.00
Teaching Business Sustainability €60.00
Something to Believe In €29.90
Corporate Responsibility Code Book, The €75.00
Triple Bottom Line, The €28.50
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Permaculture Plants €25.45
Earth Care Manual, The €52.40
Permaculture Teachers` Guide €37.50
Permaculture in a Nutshell €7.40
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Tuesday 14th - Wednesday
15th March 2006, Permaculture Conference
Would you like to meet and share with other
people running permaculture projects at a fully funded 2 day event
in March?
The Permaculture Association will be running
the 2-day conference as part of the Environmental Action Fund supported
'Sustainable Production in Active Neighbourhoods' (SPAN) project.
We would like to invite people actively working with a neighbourhood
or community project to attend the conference and contribute your
ideas and experience so that the work of the SPAN project builds
from and supports current good practice and needs.
The event will take place at the Oxford Youth
Hostel centre. Overnight accomodation, food (meals plus drinks &
snacks), presentation materials and travel expenses will be provided
for up to two delegates from each project, with 28 places available
in total.
For more info email
the Permaculture Association (Britain) or check
their site.
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Biodiesel €19.45
Planning and Installing Bioenergy Systems €97.50
Brilliance of Bioenergy, The €75.00
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16 - 17 March
2006 Bioenergy Europe 2006
Markets and finance for biofuels and biomass
Sponsored by Taylor Wessing
Supported by EUBIA, EUFORES and the Renewable
Energy Association
This Environmental Finance conference will bring you right up-to-date
on the latest EU legislation and incentive schemes that aim to produce
a dramatic increase in the use of biomass and biofuels across the
25 member states. You will benefit from insights and analysis from,
and numerous opportunities to network with top-level specialists
from a broad range of organisations across Europe. London.
Find out more at
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Fairtrade
Fortnight 2006 (6-19 March)
With an ever growing range of Fairtrade certified
products available in Ireland, it's easier than ever to include
Fairtrade in your everyday shop and Make Fairtrade Your Habit.
The aim of Fairtrade Fortnight is to increase
the awareness of the FAIRTRADE Mark and to encourage people up and
down the country to purchase Fairtrade products.
During Fairtrade Fortnight, Alivera Kiiza, from
the Karagwe Development cooperative in Tanzania, will attend events
in many towns and cities around Ireland.
Public Events with Alivera Kiiza during Fairtrade
Fortnight. 6-19 March
Tuesday March 7 10.30
am: Fairtrade Breakfast, Ulster Hall, contact:Rebecca Emery
at Oxfam Ireland Dublin 01 604 0703
Wednesday March 8 7.30
pm: Celebration of Wexford achieving Fairtrade Town status
at Irish National Heritage Park, Ferrycarrig. contact:Denis Collins
053 411 93
Thursday March 9 11.15
am: Schools Q+A, Tipperary Conference Centre. contact Una
Johnston una.johnston@mementomori.ie
Thursday March 9 7.00
pm: Public Talk, Cultivate Centre, Temple Bar, Dublin. contact:
Fairtrade Mark Ireland 01 475 3515
Friday March 10 3.30
pm: Coffee Party, Mallow youth Cafe. contact 022 535 26
Friday March 10 7.00
pm: Reception with Comhlamh and Oxfam at Oxfam Shop Cork.
contact Carol Doyle Comhlamh Cork 021 4275 881
Monday March 13 7.00
pm: Public Talk, Glenroyal Hotel, Maynooth. contact John
Sweeney, Dept. of Geography, NUI Maynooth 01 708 3684
Tuesday March 14 8.00
pm: Public Talk, I.T. Theatre U.C.G. contact Jameen Kaur,
Amnesty International, Galway. 091 533 637
Thursday March 16 11.00am:
Coffee Morning, Council Chambers, Civic Centre, Ballymun. contact:
Roger Warburton at Global Action Plan (GAP) 01 862 5846
By making Fairtrade your habit, you are
having a direct impact on the lives of farmers and workers in Third
World countries.
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Fair Trade €33.00
Free Trade €15.00
Global Corruption Report 2006, The €30.00
Global Governance €12.00
Corporate Responsibility Code Book, The €75.00
Banana Wars - The Price of Free Trade €22.45
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Spring House & Garden Show, March 16th - 19th
In their words:
'With more than 200 specialist exhibitors, and
a host of inspirational features the RDS Simmonscourt is the place
to be over the St. Patrick's Bank Holiday Weekend!
If you are planning a renovating, building or
landscaping project then you cannot afford to miss the 2006 MyHome.ie
Spring House & Garden Show. We have even divided it into 4 key
areas - Interiors, Gardens, Build It and D.I.Y. - strategically
divided to maximise your time & make your life easier!
The 2006 event really is a full house - filled
with fantastic features that are a real source of inspiration &
entertainment: there will be an all new Star Attraction, the Design
Doctors come to the rescue once again and the Show Gardens are even
more competitive than ever! Get top tips at the Garden Design Forum
or get to grips with nature in the Naturally Wild Kid Zone. Click
on the following links to find out more - exhibitor
section, visitor
section, press
section.' |
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Complete Book of Vegetables, Herbs and Fruit, The €45.00
Learn to Garden €28.50
No Work Garden, The €22.50
Bob Flowerdew`s Organic Bible €22.50
Mulch
It! €13.50
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Common
Cents 2006 conference, March 21, Dublin
Clann Credo - The Social Investment Fund - celebrates
it's 10th Anniversary. The President of Ireland, Mary McAleese
will officially open the Annual Conference.
The Conference 'Common Cents 2006' will be held
on Tuesday, 21st March 2006 in the Chief O'Neill's Hotel in Smithfield,
Dublin 7.
The future development of Social Finance will
be discussed as well as taking time to reflect on the achievements
of the past decade. Delegates will also have the opportunity to
consider the announcement in the recent Budget of the Government's
Social Finance Initiative.
The Conference Dinner will be held on the night
before (Monday, 20th March) in the Gresham Hotel, O'Connell Street,
Dublin 1. Brian Cowen T.D., Minister of Finance will speak at the
dinner.
Clann Credo - The Social
Investment Fund
Since foundation in 1996, over 11 million euro has been directly
invested in excess of 120 community projects
and enterprises. This support has generated inclusive prosperity,
enhanced social capital and enabled these organisations develop
sustainable social businesses.
To find out more email
Anne Marie or check their
webpages.
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Capitalism As If The World Matters €28.50
Megatrends 2010: The Rise of Conscious Capitalism €27.00
No More Throw-Away People €18.00
Global Profit AND Global Justice €20.25
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Wednesday
March 22nd, Cork Environment Forum
Environmental Education Workshop & Plenary Session
with David Smith, author of If The
World Were A Village
The purpose of this event is to provide information,
support and inspiration to those involved in providing environmental
education programmes. This is a unique opportunity to discuss innovative
ways of teaching environmental education with one of the most exciting
educators. With David Smith, writer of If
The World Were A Village, visiting from America, stands and
displays from GAP, ECOUNESCO, Kinsale Permaculture Group, Book STEPs
and more, followed by a plenary / open floor discussion session.
Venue: the Lifetime
Lab (Old Cork City Pumping Station) Lee Road, Cork
(almost facing County Hall)
Times: 5.00pm-9.30pm
5pm Doors Open – Exhibition
of various Environmental Education Programmes: Time to browse and
discuss different programmes including:
EcoUnesco An Taisce Green Schools CEF GAP Cork ENFO Common Purpose
Blue Planet (UCC) Kinsale FE course Recycletown - Cork Co. Co. Lifetime
lab Interactive educational displays
6.00 - 7.30pm Workshop:
David J. Smith "If the world were a village"
7.30pm. tea /
coffee break
8.00 - 9.15 Plenary
session with panel
Chair: Representative from EcoUnesco
The plenary session will ask 3 questions around environmental education.
What should our priorities be for environmental education?
Who are the gaps in environmental education?
How can we address the gaps?
9.30 close.
Who Should Attend?
(nb. there is no charge to attend this event)
- Teachers in Cork City &
County who wish to enlist in Green School prog
- Teachers from Green Schools
to give them some support
- Env. Education Officers from
Local Authorities etc.
- People who want to attend
environmental education courses for adults
- People involved in environmental
education who want to share & enrich their experiences
If
the World Were a Village by David J. Smith
David J. Smith is a classroom teacher with
over 25 years' experience teaching Middle and High School English,
geography, and social studies. He achieved national recognition
for his unique method of teaching seventh graders to draw maps of
the entire world from memory, now published as a highly successful
curriculum, Mapping The World By Heart. During his work with teachers,
Smith developed the idea that we could see and understand the world
more clearly if we viewed it as a village of 100 people instead
of 6.2 billion people. In 1992, Smith won the U.S. Department of
Education's "A+ For Breaking The Mold" Award for this
work. Since 1992, he has been a full-time consultant, providing
lectures and workshops on informational technologies, geography,
and global issues to teachers, parents, student groups, and others
in the United States, Europe, Africa, and Asia.
This event has been sponsored by West Cork LEADER
& K2 Arts Bantry
Email
Jacqi for more information. |
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If the World Were a Village €10.50
Teaching About Climate Change €13.50
Teaching Green - The Elementary Years €24.75
Weaving Connections €24.00
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Ain`t I A Woman €22.50
How Far We Have Travelled €12.99
Liberty for Women €22.35
Women`s Rights €10.50
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National Conference
on CEDAW, March 23, Galway
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms
of Discrimination Against Women
at the Westwood Hotel, Galway.
organised by the Women's Human Rights Alliance
Keynote speaker:
Shanthi Dairiam, Member of the UN CEDAW Committee and founder of
IWRAW-AP (International Women's Rights Action Watch - Asia Pacific,
an NGO that collaborates with national women's groups, governments,
inter-governmental bodies and academic institutions, to monitor
and facilitate the implementation of the UN CEDAW Convention).
The Conference is being organised in co-operation
with the Irish Centre for Human Rights, NUIG and the Irish Council
for Civil Liberties.
For more information contact Noirin
Clancy, Co-ordinator, or check the Women's
Human Rights Alliance site
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| Amnesty
International Student & Youth conference (March 25, Dublin)
When: 10am - 5pm,
Saturday March 25th
Where: Cultivate, 15-19 Essex Street
West, Old City, Temple Bar, Dublin 8.
Who can come? Young person aged 12-20,
youth leaders and teachers.
Every year, throughout the world, more than
half a million people are killed by armed violence that's
one person every minute Every government around the world is responsible.
Their lack of control on the arms trade is fuelling conflict, poverty
and human rights abuses worldwide.
You can help bring this crisis under control.
Amnesty International, Oxfam and IANSA (International
Action Network on Small Arms) are campagining for a global Arms
Trade Treaty to being the trade in weapons under control.
The time to act is now. We need you to join
us in demanding tougher controls on the arms trade. Come to the
Student and Youth conference and find out more about how to get
involved.
Come to the Student and Youth Conference and...
- Take action
- Find out more about Amnesty
International's campaigns
- Take part in workshops
- Demonstrate
- Listen to international speakers
- Meet other interested people
and activists
- Take part in our million
faces petition.
Price: euro 10
(includes lunch and light refreshments).
To find out more or book please contact the
Student and Youth Team
tel 01 677 6361, email youth@amnesty.ie
or return a completed booking form which you
can download in 'MS Word format' from the Youth and Student pages
of the Amnesty website www.amnesty.ie
Show your support for tougher international
arms controls.
Be one in a million: www.controlarms.org |
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Arms Trade, The - The No-Nonsense Guide to.. €10.50
Empire Has No Clothes €32.25
Superkids! €9.00
Atlas of War & Peace, The €19.50
War No More €16.50
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Permaculture Plants €25.45
Permaculture Garden, The €22.40
Permaculture Way, The €22.40
Permaculture Teachers` Guide €37.50
Permaculture in a Nutshell €7.40
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Permanent
Agriculture following Nature's Design Systems (March 25-26, Inishowen)
Permaculture Workshop:
Permanent Agriculture following Nature's Design Systems
March 25 & 26 (Saturday & Sunday, 10am to 4:30pm.)
Moville Community College, Inishowen, Co. Donegal.
Facilitated by Philip Allen.
Suitable for all interested in sustainable farming
& sustainable community development.
Learn the basics of organic farming. Make a
spiral herb garden. Make a mulch garden. Study patterns in nature
& plan a garden. Create your own Design Plan.
Reference library & information handouts.
Lunch provided.
Booking essential.
Cost: 30 euro
for the weekend, only 20 euro for members of Western Organic Network.
Contact: Kathleen
O'Hara (074) 93 74557 kathleen@biggreenart.com
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Learning
Spaces - Community Places (March 27, Dublin)
A conference on Monday 27th March 2006
at Croke Park Conference Centre, Jones Road, Dublin 3 The
learning space, be it physical or virtual, has enormous relevance
for how learning takes place. It has a relevance that is increasingly
recognised in the changing world of the 21st century.
This Conference is an exploration of what needs
to change across the wider educational system to support creative
learning environments into the future. It is an opportunity to open
up conversations, sparked off by a range of diverse approaches,
and network with like-minded stakeholders.
The afternoon breakout sessions will introduce
innovative, evolving models of experiential learning.
- Connecting Inter-generational
Learning;
- Connecting Learning Communities;
- Connecting Learning and the
Environment.
Speakers and Topics
Martin Heffernan, Manager, Professional and
Technical Services, Dept. of Education and Science, will open the
Conference.
Professor Stephen Heppell - World Education
Consultant:
Building Learning Futures
Sheila O'Donnell – O'Donnell + Tuomey
Architects:
An Approach to Primary School Design
Sean McDougall – Design Council Learning
Environment Campaign UK:
Learning For Life in the 21st Century
Who should attend?
All users and stakeholders in teaching and learning, educational
practitioners, policy makers, education officers, members of third
level education departments, area partnerships, education development
boards, education development planners, architects and designers
and management bodies.
For further information please contact Alison
O'Toole on 01 492 7097 or email
her or check their website.
The Conference Organisers, Presentation
Centre for Policy and Systemic Change was set up by the Presentation
Sisters to work for social justice through responding to unmet social
and educational needs. |
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Primary Options €15.95
Teaching Toward Freedom €16.50
Canines in the Classroom €19.50
Greening School Grounds €18.00
Everyone Wins! €9.00
Sustainable Education €7.50
Education and the Significance of Life €7.50
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Living with Books €19.50
Penland Book Of Handmade Books €37.45
Making
Books that Fly, Fold, Wrap, Hide, Pop Up, Twist & Turn €19.40
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World
Book Day 2006, Thursday 2nd March
World Book Day is the biggest annual event supporting
books and reading in the UK and Ireland and the emphasis for 2006
is celebration. Schools, libraries, bookshops and other venues will
be encouraged to hold even more book-related events, activities
and parties than in previous years! For specific information relating
to Ireland click
here.
World Book Day isn’t just for kids.
Adults can enjoy the day too. Why not get started on that book that
you’ve been meaning to read or maybe organise a Book Club
with friends and discuss what books you have read lately or perhaps
families could celebrate the day by reading extracts from their
favourite books to pass on the love of reading.
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If the World Were a Village €10.50
UN Millennium Development Library: Towards Universal Primary Education €37.50
Wake Up, World! €10.50
Weaving Connections €24.00
100 Ways of Seeing an Unequal World €26.95
Sustainability Curriculum, The €30.00
Sustainable
Education €7.50
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Dynamic Relations
with the Global South (February 22, Dublin)
A Development Education Conference
On Wednesday 22nd February 2006 (10.30am
- 4pm) at the Marino Institute of Education, Drumcondra, Dublin.
This dynamic all-Ireland event is being organised
by the Centre for Global Education and is aimed at development education
practitioners from all sectors.
The conference will include keynote speakers
and detailed breakout sessions covering a range of topics linked
to the main theme.
The aims of the conference are:
- To stimulate development education
practitioners to develop and improve their practice by working
more closely with Global South communities in the island of Ireland
- To facilitate in-depth discussion
on aspects of development education good practice in workshops
- To share experiences of development
education practice and to explore the links between the theme
and daily practice
- To encourage Irish and UK
development educators to establish new contacts and develop new
partnerships
- To strengthen links between
development NGOs in the north and south of Ireland.
To register for the conference please
contact Catherine Simmons on (048 from ROI and 028 from NI) 90 241
879 or email
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Feasta
course: Toolkit for Sustainability (February 21, Belfast)
Hosted at the Gibson Institute for Land, Food
and Environment,
School of Biological Sciences, Queen's University Belfast.
Every Tuesday 7.00-9.00 p.m., starting 21 February,
ending Tuesday 16 May, excluding 4, 11 and 18 April (semester break).
VENUE: The Gibson Institute for Land, Food and
Environment (part of the School of Biological Sciences at Queen's
University), 3 Lennoxvale, off Malone Road, just a five-minute walk
from the main University building.
TOOLKIT FOR SUSTAINABILITY
This is a course designed to explore the root
causes of unsustainability: how our society and economy fails to
think about and plan for its own long-term health and survival.
The course fosters joined-up thinking in considering how to tackle
the problems and frame potential solutions.
For instance, what is the link between global
climate change, genetically modified foods and rising fuel prices?
The 10 sessions will use Feasta's 'Community
Learning Toolkit', a CD ROM containing readings, videos and audio
recordings that enable a community of learners to explore the issues
further.
Nicola Creighton will facilitate the 10 evenings
of presentation and discussion, which will explore the issues of
Money, Growth, Climate Change, Energy, Food, Land-use and Democracy.
Some evenings will include presentations by
invited speakers. The course was originally hosted at the Cultivate
Centre in Dublin in 2005 with resounding interest from a diverse
set of participants. The discussion framework of the course will
meet the interests and needs of participants focusing on local issues
of sustainability.
REGISTRATION COST: £50 (includes a CD
ROM and FEASTA Book);
Concession A: price of £35 (available to Staff and volunteers
from Community groups, NGOs, Voluntary and Civil Society organisations).
Concession B: price of £20 (available to Students, OAPs and
Unwaged).
Advance Registration begins January 10. Register
early! Attendance is limited, and will be provided on a first come
first serve basis.
To register contact the Course Facilitator,
Nicola Creighton on 028 9097 1401 or email
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Natural Step, The €9.00
Creating Sustainable Cities €7.50
Ecology of Health, The €7.50
Ecology of Money, The €7.50
Contraction & Convergence €7.50
Sustainable Education €7.50
Roots of Health, The €7.50
Bioregional
Solutions €9.00
Gaian Democracies €12.00
Solar World, A €9.00
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6th
- 10th February 2006 Trinity Green Week
Promises to be the usual mix of environmentally
focussed events and topical debates along with old favourites such
as the Bird Walk and Tree Walk. See their
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Kids Under Pressure €13.50
Daughters of the Moon, Sisters of the Sun €22.50
From The Heart €14.99
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Eating Disorders
Awareness Week, 6th–12th February
Up to 200,000 people in Ireland have an eating
disorder
A report of the Expert Group on Mental Health
Policy, Vision for Change launched on January 24th, highlights that
up to 200,000 people in Ireland have an eating disorder. Bodywhys
- The Eating Disorders Association of Ireland welcomes this report
as it calls for much needed eating disorders services from community
based services to specialist hospital treatment. The report states
that the national allocation of three in-patient beds for eating
disorders is clearly “inadequate”.
The report also recognises the need for greater
public awareness through publicity campaigns. As part of the Eating
Disorders Awareness week , Bodywhys is launching a National Awareness
Campaign, Two Regional Support Groups, in Galway and in Carlow an
Email Support Service and a Directory of Service Providers.
Bodywhys is the national voluntary organisation
providing support, information and understanding for people affected
by eating disorders. They run a national helpline 1890 200
444, regional support groups, email
support, weekly online support groups as well as a dedicated
website.
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Creating
a Safer Waterford: Community Safety Conference (February 8)
Community safety, crime or anti-social behaviour
prevention have become growing concerns for everyone. However, helping
people feel safe by reducing crime, disorder and nuisance is not solely
aconcern for An Garda Siochana or Local Authorities. Everyone
needs to be involved in order to create safer communities.
"Creating A Safer Waterford" is a
conference that seeks to facilitate such joined up thinking and
inform the development of a Citywide community safety strategy.
The day conference will enable discussion and
examination of international best practice, enforcement and preventative
work as well as a collective understanding of current community
safety legislation.
Venue: City Hall, The Mall, Waterford
For more details contact communitysafety@waterfordcity.ie
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Safe
In The Streets €15.00
State of the World`s Cities 2004/2005 €30.00
Community Planning Handbook, The €25.50
Community Building Companion, The €13.50
Planning for Cycling €142.50
Street
Reclaiming €21.00 |
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Enacting
Participatory Development €25.50
Outburst
of Frankness €20.00
Fabulous
Jewelry from Found Objects €25.45
Rags
and Remnants €13.50
Awesome
Things To Make With Recycled Stuff €15.00
Community
Quilts
€29.90
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More than
meets the eye... Arts practice and Social Inclusion
February 9th, Cork
Venue: Triskel,
Tobin Street, Cork
Date:
Thursday February 9th (10 - 4:30pm)
Cork Community Art Link presents a one day conference
that looks at the social impact of arts projects and practice with
disadvantaged or marginalised communities and groups and how such
projects can contribute to the social inclusion agenda.
This one day event brings together three different
European examples of arts in social contexts practice with project
presentations and discussion from
Wochenklausur,
Austria
Fablevision, Glasgow
and Truc Spherique, Slovakia
More than meets the eye... aims to highlight
the diversity of European arts practice that exists in relation
to issues of social exclusion and the social impact of arts projects.
Places are limited and early booking is advisable.
There is a charge of 10 euros for individuals attending on behalf
of an organisation.
For further information and bookings please
email Cork Community Art
Link, or phone them on 021 421 2914.
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| February
11th 06 – Concert: Rossport Five
8pm, Sat 11th February, The Russell Cultural
Centre, Doolin. The Rossport Five will be in Doolin for a concert
and a talk. All welcome. Admission Free, refreshments available.
Email them for more info.
Clare. |
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Activism!
€19.45
Brave
Hearts: Rebel Spirits €19.50
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Caring for Small Woods €37.45
Woodlands €26.50
Woodland Way, The €25.40
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February 11th, Sustainable
Woodland Management Course – CELT
6 consecutive weekends beginning Saturday
11th February 2006, 11am, at Bealkelly Wood, Tuamgraney, Co.Clare
(2 miles south of Tuamgraney on Killaloe road - down track towards
lake, through iron gates (leave closed) and straight ahead).
Late starters may be able to join on 2nd
or 3rd weekends. The course is subsidised by County Clare VEC and
gives a broad introduction to managing mixed woodland eco-systems
as continuous-cover forestry beneficial to wildlife and biodiversity.
Full details on CELT
website. Course fee is 200 euro and membership of CELT is required
(15 euro / 10 unwaged). To book a place, please send deposit of
50 euro plus membership fee (if applicable). Include name, address,
phone, email and brief details of experience, interests, etc.
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Muscular
Dystrophy Ireland National Awareness Day
February 14th
Muscular Dystrophy Ireland's fifth National
Awareness Day will take place on St. Valentine’s Day, Tuesday
14th February 2005.
The idea behind this Awareness Campaign is to
further raise and expand the profile of MDI and continue to create
essential public knowledge about the condition of muscular dystrophy
and the role MDI play. This initiative has proven to be a huge success
over the last four years, and once again we are hoping to expand
on the success of previous years and make our Awareness Campaign
for 2006 even more successful.
To help achieve this, MDI will once again will
be selling two handmade heart shaped Lily O’Brien’s
chocolates in attractive red and white boxes appropriate for Valentine’s
Day.
For more details, or to order chocolates etc
contact the office on Freephone 1800 245300 or email
them.
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Muscular
Dystrophy in Children €19.75
Muscular
Dystrophy: The Facts €21.00 |
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Unhealthy
State €20.00
Winning the Oil Endgame €74.95
Before The Wells Run Dry €15.00
No Global €19.95
Battling
Big Business €16.40 |
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Wednesday
15th February 8.30pm, West Cork Rossport 5 Support Group hosts a
public meeting
Standing up to Shell
at O'Donovan¹s Hotel, Clonakilty
- All Welcome
Speakers:
- Micheál Ó Seighin
(Rossport 5 jailed for 94 days)
- Caitlín Uí
Sheighin (Shell to Sea Campaign)
- Niall Hartnett (Shell to
Sea Campaign)
Meeting followed by trad music session. |
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Environmental
and Land Use Law €320.00
Environmental Law €42.00
Environmental Law - A Glossary and Handbook €196.00
Greening International Law €34.43
Guide to EC Environmental Law, A €34.45
Irish Laws €7.50
Just
Law €13.50
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Seminars series
on environmental law (Limerick), February to May 2006
The International Commercial and Economic
Law Research Group at the University of Limerick will run a series
of seminars on environmental law in the Spring 2006 semester.
Timetable of Events
Climate Change: The Irish Response
Date: Thursday 16 February 2006
Speaker: Rónán Kennedy,
School of Law, University of Limerick
Environmental Enforcement In Ireland
Date: Thursday 9 March 2006
Speaker: Dr. Matt Crowe, Environmental
Protection Agency
Fisheries In Ireland: Lessons From North America
Date: Thursday 27 April 2006
Speaker: Professor Katrina Wyman,
School of Law, New York University
Environmental Impact Assessments
Date: May 2006
Speaker: Garrett Simons, BL
All events are subject to change.
Further details of the Seminars are available
from the Project Leader:
Rónán Kennedy, ICELRG, School of Law, University of
Limerick. Email Rónán
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Earth
Heart Essence Series - PART I: A workshop
with Tom Grace and John Graham, February 17th – 19th
Dunderry Park, Navan, Co. Meath
Programme includes: meditations with Merlin
and Metatron; fieldwork on and around the Hill of Tara; integrate
masculine and feminine energies in yourself; bring forth the gifts
of your Inner Child; reconnect with her sense of wonder, spontaneity
and vision; discover the magic of the Fairy realm; deepen your relationship
with the spiritual landscape of the Boyne Valley; learn how Inner
Marriage brings healing and renewal to Sacred Earth.
The cost is 350 euro (including food and accommodation).
To book, please send a deposit of 70 euro to Tom at Coals Farm,
Burnchurch, Co Kilkenny.
For information, e-mail Tom
or John or telephone
Tom at 056 77 29221
Part II in the series ‘A Way with
Fairy’ will be offered April 21-23 2006, also at Dunderry
Park.
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Dance
of the Dragon, The €27.75
Practical
Meditation €16.45
Working With Natural Energy €11.95
Energy Sourcebook €22.50
Sacred
Celebrations €16.40
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Alternatives
to Neoliberalism Conference, Saturday
Feb 18th
Liberty Hall, Dublin 1
• Events in Europe, and
EU decisions, are having a dramatic effect on our lives. Irish Ferries
were able to recruit cheap labour and impose a wage cut because
of mass unemployment and poverty in Eastern Europe. This unemployment
is a result of the neoliberal policies imposed in Eastern Europe
by the EU.
• EU Directives,
like those for transport, energy and postal services, will open
the door to enforced privatisation, lead to price rises, reductions
in quality of service, job losses and wage cuts. McCreevey’s
Services Directive (Bolkenstein) would bring pressure to reduce
wages and standards to the lowest levels in the EU - a real race
to the bottom.
• Very poor African
and Asian countries lose out too – by the EU forcing secretive
antidemocratic trade deals on them through Economic Partnership
Agreements and the WTO.
• In the midst of
all this, the EU is becoming increasingly militarised. The EU elite
and the Irish government continue to push neoliberal market-centred
policies - despite the rejection of such policies in the French
and Dutch EU Constitution referendums.
… But others in Ireland and Europe
are arguing for an alternative, where social needs and the environment
take priority.
Consider going along to the Conference
and joining in the discussion.
Admission: €10/ €3 • Find out more here
or call 087 230 8330
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Environmental Policy Integration €32.95
Environmental Policy in the European Union €34.45
Defending Peace €15.00
Leaders and Laggards €29.90
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30th
January 2006 - Patrick Holford Lecture on Allergies at Cultivate
Patrick Holford will be giving a lecture on allergies to coincide
with his new book 'Hidden Food Allergies - Is What You Eat Making
You Ill?' on the 30th of January at the Cultivate centre.
Patrick will explain how most food allergies
and intolerances can be overcome. One in two people, including up
to 70% if the chronically ill, suffers from a hidden food allergy.
Are you one of them?
For the time and cost of this lecture
e-mail Cultivate
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Hidden
Food Allergies €12.00
Patrick
Holford`s New Optimum Nutrition Bible €19.50
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| New
Beginnings €7.50
Stormy Weather €23.25
Teaching About Climate Change €13.50
Video For Change €22.50
Climate Change and Sustainable Development €30.00
Selfish Altruist €25.50
Another
Day in Paradise €28.50
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Christian
Aid Tsunami Exhibition opens in Dublin (January 20)
A year after the tsunami struck the countries
of the Indian Ocean on 26 December 2004, killing nearly 250,000
people, Puspavathi – like so many mothers who survived –
still dreams that her children are with her. When she wakes, she
remembers they are gone.
How do we comprehend the scale of this disaster?
Coming to Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin
for two weeks, from Friday 20 January to Friday 3 February 2006,
the Christian Aid Ireland exhibition
'Every time I see the sea... Life after the Tsunami' reveals how
people are emerging from catastrophe and rebuilding so they can
survive the next disaster. It weaves together moving tales of survival
as well as showing how money raised from the Irish public has been
spent.
Through the use of children's art, photography
and personal testimonies, the exhibition goes beyond journalism
to explore the experiences of the tsunami’s survivors –
their grief and their recovery.
One of the photographs featured in the exhibition
has been named by Time Magazine as one of the best photographs of
the year. The picture, taken by Tim Hetherington for Christian Aid
and called Venturing Back, shows Muslim schoolgirls playing in the
sea in Colombo, Sri Lanka, ten months after the tsunami killed 30,000
people in their country. The exhibition will also feature artwork
and masks made by children who watched the tsunami destroy their
homes. The children's art is an important part of their recovery.
'Rebuilding after the tsunami' - Christian Aid's
report one year on - has been published by Christian Aid Ireland
and is now available in their Dublin and Belfast offices.
The booklet, which thanks the public for their
generosity and shows how their money has been spent, will also be
displayed alongside the exhibition.
For further information call 086 354 1124 or
01 611 0801 or visit their
website
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Wednesdays
from Jan 18th to March 22nd 7-9pm Permaculture Course - Design for
Sustainability
10-week evening class at Áras na Laoi,
Room 9, UCC Centre for Adult continuing Education, University College
Cork
€200 for 10 weeks
This course provides
an introduction to permaculture , a design method that uses natural
systems as models for human settlements. Using a variety of creative
learning methods we will look at a range of sustainable solutions
for energy, buildings, food and the community.
- Introduction - what is permaculture?
The challenge of energy peak
- Ethics and principles
- Food - the home garden
- The forest garden - orchards
and other tree crops
- Trees - for shelter, fuel
and crafts
- Water - water in the landscape;
reedbeds and sewage solutions
- Natural building - strawbale,
cob and cordwood; passive solar design
- Money - sustainable economics;
local currencies
- Energy - living off the grid;
community power supplies
- Design process - putting
it all together; where to from here?
Tutor: Graham
Strouts holds the Diploma in Applied Permaculture Design and teaches
Permaculture at the Kinsale Further Education College.
For details please check
online or phone : 021 490 4717
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Basics
of Permaculture Design €22.40
Gaia`s Garden €29.90
Permaculture Plants €25.45
Earth Care Manual, The €52.40
Permaculture Garden, The €22.40
Permaculture Way, The €22.40
Designing
& Maintaining Your Edible Landscape Naturally €59.95
Permaculture
in a Nutshell €7.40
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Noam
Chomsky to deliver Annual Amnesty Lecture
January 18, Dublin
Described by The New Yorker as 'one of
the greatest minds of the 20th century', Noam Chomsky will give
the 2006 Amnesty Lecture in Trinity College Dublin on January 18th,
the theme of which will be 'The War on Terror'.
Noam Chomsky has been Professor
of Modern Languages & Linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology since 1976.
The lecture is open to the public, and tickets
will be free. However, we anticipate there will be huge demand,
and priority will be given to current members of Amnesty (Irish
Section).
Bookings can now be taken at the Amnesty office
by calling 01 677 6361 or by e-mailing them
If the demand for tickets exceeds the capacity
of the venue in TCD, there will be simultaneous live transmission
to several theatres on campus, allowing full participation by all
attendees in the Q&A session after the lecture which will be
chaired by broadcaster and journalist Olivia O'Leary.
NB: tickets will be allocated on the basis of
one per person or in the event of a household membership, two. |
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Arguments
Against G8, The €18.00
Free To Be Human €14.90
Profit Over People €19.50
Time for Choices, A €19.50
Understanding Power €16.50
Compassionate
Revolution, The €14.90
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| Facility
Siting €82.50
Fearing
Sellafield €12.99
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1st November –
16th December, Radioactivity in your environment, ENFO, Dublin
An exhibition by the Radiological Protection
Institute of Ireland explaining what radioactivity is, its presence
in the environment, how radiation affects us and its benefits and
hazards.
ENFO 17 St Andrew's Street Dublin www.enfo.ie
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| Thatch
and Thatching €7.50
Living
Under Thatch €15.00
Slate
Roof Bible, The €41.25
Thatching
€14.90
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CELT Eco-build Weekend
- 12th / 13th November 2005
Bealkelly Wood. Members with basic construction
skills needed to help with roofing work on various buildings. Camping
available. Communal meals (share cost). No charge. Please contact
CELT office.
CELT (Centre for Environmental Living
and Training)
East Clare Community Coop, Scariff, Co.Clare
Tel: 061 640 765 or 087 668 6477 www.celtnet.org
or email them
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North
South East West exhibition
The British Council Zero Carbon City Climate Change Exhibit
November 18th to 26th at the Cultivate Centre, Temple Bar, Dublin
North South East West is a stunning
new exhibition touring the world, which will act as a visual wake
up call to citizens, companies, and government leaders alike on
climate change.
Ten leading Magnum photographers have travelled
to twelve locations around the world, capturing not only the impacts
of global warming, but the solutions which are being implemented
north, south, east and west to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.
The aim of the exhibition is to highlight problems
associated with climate change, the major science campaign for the
British Council this year. The exhibition was developed by British
Council Science in association with the Climate Group (UK).
This exhibit will be free of charge.
See their
website for more info. |
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Business
of Climate Change, The €60.00
Climate
Change and Carbon Markets €112.50
Climate
Change and Power €37.40
Cases
in Climate Change Policy €34.45
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| Acupuncture
Handbook €19.50
Complete
Family Health Guide: New Medicine €37.50
Flu:
Alternative Treatments and Prevention €10.50
Healing Without Freud or Prozac €12.00
Nutrition
for Life €25.50
Selling
Sickness €12.00
Medicine
for the Whole Person €9.00
New Book of Herbs €19.50
Chinese
Herbal Medicine €75.00 |
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Herbal Medicine
& Complementary Medicine Health Fair
Organised by the Irish Institute of Medical Herbalists
On Saturday 19th & Sunday 20th of November
at Galway Bay Hotel, Salthill
Day 1: Saturday 19th
Nov 1pm-8pm. Practitioner seminars with international speakers
The objective of these seminars is to upgrade practitioner skills
and to inform on current complementary health care issues.
We have an exciting line-up of renowned international speakers.
Topics include:
- Drug-Herb interactions-Fact,
Fantasy and Fiction,
- The Scientific Evaluation
of Herbal Medicine in Europe: An overview of the work of the ESCOP
organisation,
- Phytoestrogens- their role
in health and well-being,
- Aromatic Waters - their application
in therapeutics,
- The Role of Herbal Medicine
in Cancer Care’.
Open to all health care practitioners, nurses,
GP’s. Students welcome.
Day 2: Sunday 20th Nov
11am-6pm. Public Health Fair.
The objective of the health fair is to highlight safety and quality
amongst complementary health care practitioners.
Speak to qualified practitioners, have a taster
treatment, listen to one of our many interesting speakers on topics
such as ‘Aromatic Waters’, ‘How to lower Cholesterol-the
role of herbs and diet’, ‘Healthy eating made easy for
the family’, ‘The role of herbs in the menopause’,
‘The therapeutic benefits of massage therapy, among many other
topics. Browse our stalls for unique Christmas presents. Find out
how to make real-life health changes, or just relax with a cup of
herbal tea…
All welcome
For further information call Joerg Muller:
091 586 443 or 087 056 5532
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Youth
Participation to Tackle Global Poverty, 19-27 November
One World Week is a week of awareness raising
and action on global justice issues held from 19 until 27 November.
This year's One World Week theme is
Youth Participation, how young people are participating locally
to tackle poverty globally.
Events to celebrate One World Week will be taking
place at a local level all over Ireland. Youth participants from
developing countries will be coming to Ireland to share their experiences
of participating to tackle poverty globally.
The national Youth Development Education Programme
has produced an activity pack for youth work practitioners to explore
the theme with young people.
This is available free of charge along with
training in the use of the resource.
For further information, a copy of the pack
and details of training in your area please contact Jean-Marie Cullen
in the NYCI,
Tel: 01 4784122, Email: jeanmarie.cullen@nyci.ie
Check their
website for more details |
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End
of Poverty €13.50
Make Poverty History €3.00
Plantations, Privatization, Poverty and Power €52.50
Poverty €10.50
Best
Practices in Poverty Reduction €25.45
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Climate Change and Carbon Markets €112.50
Climate Change and Power €37.40
Cases
in Climate Change Policy €34.45
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In the week before
the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Montreal, GRIAN,
Cultivate, FEASTA and Friends of the Earth will host the following
free events:
* Policy and Climate Change - Monday 21st November
(10.30 - 12.30)
* Business and Climate Change - Tuesday 22nd
November (10.30 - 12.30)
* An Interfaith Gathering on Climate Change
- Wednesday 23rd November
(20.00 - 22.00)
The Events take place in the CULTIVATE Centre
for Sustainable Living
and Learning, 15-19 Essex Street West, Old City, Temple Bar, Dublin
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| November
21st Monday, 7.30 pm, FEASTA LECTURE 2005 - ‘How To Live Well
Without Carbon - Decouple Life Satisfaction from Economic Growth,
as well as Economy from the Environment’
Speaker: Roger Levett Davenport
Hotel at Merrion Square Dublin 2
As a partner in Levett-Therivel Sustainabilty
Consultants, Roger advises UK government departments, public bodies
including regional and local authorities on sustainability policy
and tools including indicators, sustainability appraisal, strategic
environment assessment and quality of life assessment.
Admission: €10
(Students, OAP’s etc €5)
After the lecture, the hotel will open
the bar in the room. Attendees are invited to stay for a drink and
to meet the speaker. The Davenport is close to Pearse Street, Dart
Station.
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Energy
Beyond Oil €24.00
Half Gone €19.50
Island Planet €18.75
The
Long Emergency €19.50
Oil Crisis €30.00
Powerdown €16.45
Winning
the Oil Endgame €74.95 |
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Ecovillages
€30.00
Natural Step for Communities, The €24.75
Sekem €25.50
Toward Sustainable Communities €22.50
Superbia!
€23.25
Community
Building Companion, The €13.50
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Planning for the
Future now – Building Sustainable Local Communities, 22nd
November, 9.30 am - 2.30 pm Mont Clare Hotel, Clare St. Dublin 2
Hosted by Roger Levett and Dr Kevin Leyden:
- A workshop for a limited number of participants to share knowledge
in securing environmental and social sustainability in local communities.
The workshop will offer insights into Strategic Plan Development
and implementation by City and County Development Boards.
Participants are advised to attend the Feasta
Annual Lecture given the night before by Roger Levett, which will
set the broad context for the workshop
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| Atlas
of Women in the World, The €19.50
Feeling
Safe €12.00
Feminism
Is For Everybody €18.00
Healing
Heart, The: Families €23.25
Rape:
Your Survival Guide €13.50
Transforming
Abuse €18.00
Women`s
Rights €10.50
Children
Who See Too Much €22.50
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16 Days of Action
opposing Violence Against Women
The 16 Days Global Campaign will take place from 25th November to
10th December 2005
This year Women's Aid will hold a public action
outside Dáil Eireann to highlight the issue of domestic violence.
The public action will also raise awareness
about the level of domestic violence against women and children
in Irish society. The public action that will take place outside
Leinster House will highlight the State's responsibility to end
violence against women.
Women's Aid has released its 16 Days of Action
Opposing Violence Against Women Information Pack for 2005.
The Information Pack is designed as an exchange
of ideas on the types of events and actions groups can plan and
to provide information and statistics that may be helpful during
the 16 Days.
In it you will also get an idea of what groups
around the country are planning this year with contact details if
you are interested in supporting these actions. The pack has been
mailed to over 400 organisations around the country.
However, if you have not received your
information pack by post by Friday 29th October it can be downloaded
from www.womensaid.ie or alternatively
contact Women's Aid on 01 - 868 4721.
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Privatisation
in Health Conference on November 26, Dublin
The first ever Irish conference on privatisation
in health, aimed at the general public, is to be held in Dublin.
"Ireland's Healthcare Reforms: for people
or for profit?" announced by the Health Services Action Group
in Liberty Hall on Saturday 26 November
Chairman Dr John Barton said that the day would
offer a "platform" to all to debate the merits and demerits
of privatising Ireland's healthcare system.
Privatisation is now "unilateral"
Government policy, he observed: tax write-offs are offered to all
who invest in private healthcare facilities. "Yesterday we
saw the first of three private hospitals scheduled for Limerick
being given the all-clear by the planners", the consultant
physician continued. "Yet this hospital has the same number
of beds as those scheduled for downgrading - on size grounds - under
the Hanly Report."
Whether Ireland should replace its smaller public
hospitals across the country with private hospitals in urban centres
will be one of the main topics addressed at the conference.
As Dr Peadar O'Grady, a member of the conference
steering committee, points out: "The cherrypicking that private
hospitals engage in - selecting the most profitable procedures and
leaving the rest to the State - runs the risk of destabilising our
entire public health system".
Organised by the Health Services Action
Group (HSAG)
For more details phone 087 2250947 or
email healthconf2611@yahoo.com |
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Care
To Remember €20.00
Restructuring Health Services €26.95
Sustainable Economy for the 21st Century, A €6.00
Unhealthy State €20.00
Sociology of Health and Illness in Ireland, The €18.00
Health Wars €18.75
Ecology
of Health, The €7.50
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Friendship
Towards Peace €9.99
Killing
Finucane €14.99
On
the Border €22.50
Taking a Stand €12.75
Unarmed
Heroes €16.45 |
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The AGM of the Peace
& Neutrality Alliance will be held on Thursday 26th of November
at the Amicus Headquarters, 15 Merrion Square, Dublin from 2-5.30pm
The guest is Paul Callan SC who will speak on
" Ireland, Guantanamo Bay, Shannon and International law".
The AGM is open to the public, but voting will
be restricted to paid up members of PANA. Membership can be paid
on the day.
For more details see their
website.
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Art
and Anti-Racism: from Education to Action
November 26, Cork
Artists, educators, community - workers,
campaigners, activists and all those who are interested in the role
of art in challenging racism and promoting interculturalism are
invited to take part in a seminar and skills exchange in Cork on
November 26th.
The
day will include a number of skills exchange workshops in a wide
range of methods, techniques and artistic strategies covering everything
from the documentary arts to clowning.
The day will also hold a number of discussions
designed to encourage practical and innovative ideas on key issues
such as building inclusion in projects, creative use of public space,
and institutional change.
This event is being co-ordinated by Comhlámh,
The Le Cheile 'Artists against Racism' Project and the Campaigning
Artists Group.
If you or your organization are interested in
taking part please contact Alice-Mary Higgins on 01 478 3490 or
email
her for more details |
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Cultivating
Pluralism €25.00
Culture Counts €26.95
Dealing with Racism €19.50
Global Uprising €22.50
Refugees
and Asylum-Seekers in Ireland €15.00
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Storytelling
As The Vehicle? Conference, November 29, Dunadry, Co. Antrim: Healing
Through Remembering (HTR)
An extensive cross-community project made
up of a range of individuals holding different political perspectives.
They have come together over the last five years to focus on the
issue of how to deal with the past relating to the conflict in and
about Northern Ireland.
Following
the launch of HTR's audit of storytelling initiatives relating to
the conflict in and about Northern Ireland in mid October, HTR are
hosting a one-day conference on Storytelling.
The conference will take place on Tuesday 29th
November at the Dunadry Hotel, Dunadry, Co. Antrim. It is a full
day event.
Two keynote speakers will address key topics,
"Storytelling and Encounter" and "Memory, History
and Testimony" with the aim of encouraging debate and discussion.
The main objective of the conference is discussion and dialogue
amongst those present in trying to answer some of the questions
raised by the issue of storytelling, especially the concept of a
collective storytelling process to deal with the legacy of the conflict
in and about Northern Ireland.
There is no registration fee for the conference
and lunch and refreshments will be provided. However, spaces are
strictly limited and will be allocated on a first come basis.
Registration forms can be requested from the
HTR offices which can be contacted on 048 9023 8844 if calling from
the south or 028 9023 8844 is calling from the north.
Alternatively email
them or check out their
website.
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Anything
Can Happen €12.99
Friendship Towards Peace €9.99
Healing The Hurts Of Nations €14.90
Killing Finucane €14.99
Nation-Building €27.00
Peace Is the Way €19.50
Taking a Stand €12.75
Unarmed Heroes €16.45
Atlas of War & Peace, The €19.50
Spinning Tales, Weaving Hope €28.50
Creating
True Peace €15.00
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| Creating
Wealth from Waste €17.90
Rubbish! €12.00
Waste Management Legislation €115.00
Work
from Waste €60.40
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Reuse and
Eco-Design of IT, December 2, Dublin
One Day Seminar on Reuse and Eco-Design
of IT,
Friday December 2nd 9:30AM to 4PM
at Enterprise Ireland, Glanevin, Dublin 9
Following the introduction of WEEE recycling,
this Seminar will look at the advantages and practical possibilities
of Reuse and EcoDesign of IT equipment, and how these initiatives
can help create training and employment opportunities and resist
globalisation.
The Seminar is organised by Project HEATSUN,
a Dublin-based Partnership of Local Authorities, companies and social
economy enterprises, part-funded by the European Commission's LIFE-Environment
Programme.
For information and to register see www.projectheatsun.com,
or contact José Ospina, Project Manager, on 086 8224429.
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3rd
and 4th December, Christmas Craft Fair in Sonairte Ecology Visitor
Centre, Laytown (off the M1), Co Meath
10.30 - 5pm
Bouncy Castle, Santa Claus, Face painting, International
Music, Lots of lovely crafts, Nature Trail, Playgrounds, Coffee
shop, Eco shop.
Come and have a lovely day and get your presents
from an Environmentally friendly source.
For more info call 041 9827572 or email
them
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Cut
& Carve Candles €10.45
Green
Woodworking
Pattern Book €27.00
Sticks and Stones €13.50
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| Art
of Papermaking with Plants, The €25.45
Hippie
Crafts €13.45
No-nonsense Guide to Fair Trade, The €10.50
World Textiles €24.45
Beauty Of Craft, The €30.00
Maggie`s
Ireland €42.00
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December Sunday
4th 11.00-18.00
Cultivate, as part of the tenth Convergence
festival, will be teaming up with NCAD to bring you a selection
of art and green gift ideas and that are locally produced or fairly
traded.
If you produce eco or fairly traded products,
art or locally produced crafts and would like a space to sell them
this festive season please contact Davie at Cultivate, mailto:davie@sustainable.ie.
Harkening back to an earlier generation's icon
of a friendlier and greener spirit, the "Green Santa"
will be visiting the Cultivate Centre this festive season offering
green and ethical gifts.
See their
website for more details.
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Feeling Safe €12.00
Feminism Is For Everybody €18.00
Healing Heart, The: Families €23.25
Rape: Your Survival Guide €13.50
Transforming Abuse €18.00
UN Millennium Development Library: Taking Action €37.50
Women`s Rights €10.50
Children
Who See Too Much €22.50
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The Vagina Monologues
- a community performance
December 6, Dublin
This year, as part of our participation
in the "UN 16 Days of Action Against Violence Against Women",
Ringsend Action Project is facilitating the Ringsend & Irishtown
Domestic Violence Working Group to stage a community performance
of
"The Vagina Monologues"
at the Mansion House, Dawson Street, Dublin 2.
on Tuesday the 6th of December.
Performance Commences 8pm Doors Open 7.15pm
A group of 13 women who live or work in Ringsend
& Irishtown, and range in age from 35 to 75, will perform the
play FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY .
"The Vagina Monologues" is a play
by Eve Ensler that was developed through discussions with women
in North America, Europe, Africa and Asia about their views and
feelings about their own bodies and their experiences of violence.
It is a powerful tool for raising awareness of issues pertaining
to violence against women and it is intended that its performance
will encourage participants and audience to take action against
domestic violence (against women and men) in all its forms.
Admission By Ticket Only:
euro 15.
Tickets available from Ringsend Action Project
Regal House, 28 Fitzwilliam Street, Ringsend, Dublin 4
Phone: 01 6607558 / 087 280 6450
e-mail: raponforan@eircom.net
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International
Conference on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, December 9, Dublin
A major international conference will be
hosted by the Irish Human Rights Commission on the 9th and 10th December
2005, in Croke Park, Dublin.
The conference will be addressed by leading scholars and advocates
in the field of economic, social and cultural rights. Speakers
will include:
- Martin Scheinin, Professor
of Law, Åbo Akademi University of Finland, author of many
leading texts on economic, social and cultural rights, and former
member of the UN Human Rights Committee
- Catarina de Albuquerque,
chair-rapporteur of Working Group to draft the Optional Protocol
to the International Convention on Economic, Social and Cultural
Rights
- Bruce Porter, Director, Social
Rights Advocacy Centre (Canada)
- Miloon Kathari, Special Rapporteur
on the Right to Adequate Housing, United Nations
- Regis Brillat, Executive
Secretary, Social Charter Committee, Council of Europe
- Mara Bustelo, Co-ordinator
Human Rights and Economic and Social Issues in UN OHCHR
- Gerard Quinn, member of Irish
Human Rights Commission and Deputy First President of the Social
Charter Committee, Council of Europe
- Colm O'Cinneide, Faculty
of Laws, University College London
- Padraic Kenna, Law Faculty
NUI Galway and author of Housing Rights and Human Rights
- Gerry Whyte, Law School,
Trinity College Dublin.
Target Audience
The target audience will be politicians, civil and public servants
and agencies, NGOs, members of the judiciary, academics, human rights
advocates and others active in the promotion of economic, social
and cultural rights.
For more information please contact the Human
Rights Commission,
4th Floor, Jervis House,
Jervis Street, Dublin 1.
Tel. +353 (0) 1 8589 601
E-mail: info@ihrc.ie
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Free
Trade €15.00
Hope in the Dark €12.00
Human
Rights and the Environment €30.00
World Guide 2005/2006, The €44.95
Global Corruption Report 2004 €24.00
In Our Own Best Interest €19.50
Property for People, Not for Profit €26.95
Refugees and Asylum-Seekers in Ireland €15.00
Towards a Culture of Human Rights in Ireland €15.00
Business
and Human Rights €29.90
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| SWAN
(Sustainable Water Action Network) meeting, Monday 7th November 2005
SWAN has invited CEF to co-host a meeting in
Cork to facilitate the nomination of NGO representatives to the
Advisory Council in the South West River basin area. This meeting
is part of SWAN¹s on-going work towards the implementation
of the EU Water Framework Directive.
Please note this meeting is intended for representatives
of environmental NGOs only.
The Meeting will take place as follows:
Venue: Imperial
Hotel (Hillcrest Suite) Cork City (021-427 4040)
Times: 6.00-9.30pm
For further information please contact
Sinead O¹Brien, Coordinator SWAN (9, Upper
Mount St., Dublin 2) tel
01-6425583, email her
or check out the SWAN website
or Jacqi Hodgson, Development Officer
CEF, 028-37884, email her or
check the CEF on-line calendar
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Atlas
of Water, The €19.50
Balancing Water for Humans and Nature €34.45
Fluoride
Deception, The €27.00
Tapped
Out €18.00
World`s
Water, The €69.75
Blue Gold €22.50
World Water Actions €37.50
Rivers for Life €28.40
Thirsty Planet €28.45
Troubled Water €15.00
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Allihies
Weekend, 29 - 31 October, 2005, October Bank Holiday
‘What Has Worked – and What We Want’
- The Art of The Possible
Workshops, Master Classes,
and Discussions
Every year Friends of the Irish Environment
hosts a weekend of talks and workshops on the Irish environment.
Previous year’s themes included “Environmental Rights
And Social Justice” and ‘Dealing with the Backlash.’
This year’s weekend is entitled ‘What Has Worked –
and What We Want’.
Guest Speakers this year include:
Dr. Aine Ryall of University College Cork on
European Law
Patricia McKenna, Green Party, ex-MEP, on Politics
Kathy Sinnott, Independent MEP on The EPA
Wine Reception Saturday 29 October at 7.00 PM
Bookings to Friends
of the Irish Environment or 027-73131
Price: €95 euro. OAPs, students and non-staffed
NGOs €50 euro. Price includes
workshops and vegetarian meals.
For more information check
out their website.
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Activism!
€19.45
Environmental Law €42.00
Environmental Policy Integration €32.95
Greening International Law €34.43
Guide to EC Environmental Law, A €34.45
How to Win Campaigns €25.50
Evolution of Green Politics, The €30.00
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| 22nd
- 23rd October: THE OVER 50s SHOW, Main Hall, RDS, Dublin
The Over 50’s Show is Ireland’s
only lifestyle event for older people and directly addresses their
interests and concerns through an entertaining and informative mix
of displays, free presentations, demonstrations, health testing/monitoring,
sampling, and competitions.
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Experiment
In Living, An €11.25
Life
in Your Years, The €11.50
Elderwoman
€14.90
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| Compost
€9.00
Composting
For All €3.00
How
To Make Soil And Save Earth €7.50
Backyard
Composting €7.40
Worms
Eat My Garbage €13.45
Liquid
Gold €7.45
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Hands-on composting
workshop, Sunday 16th October, Skibbereen
Hot compost, cold compost, worm composting.
Know your greens from your browns, try out different containers
and systems and learn what's hot and what's not in your pile!
Tips and tricks for making the best thing to
give to your soil – lovely compost! And help the environment
by not sending your organic waste to the landfill.
Location: Madeline
McKeever's, Ardagh, Church Cross, Skibbereen and also at Bob Allen's
nearby.
Cost €25.
Bring a packed lunch.
Starts 10.45am
finishes 4.30pm.
Contact: Tom or
Ruth on 028 23889 or email
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Sunday
October 16th 2005 - Bury Me Green Conference, CULTIVATE, Essex Street
West, Temple Bar, Dublin
The purpose of the event is to promote the establishment
of Natural Burial Grounds in Ireland. In broad terms, these are
cemeteries where the entire project is run on ecological lines;
there are no large, permanent memorials, rather trees are planted
and wildflowers sown to create rich, natural habitats; people of
all beliefs and of none at all would be welcome to be buried in
such Grounds.
Enquiries and bookings can be made by telephoning
0749 736 406, or through the Bury
Me Green website
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Graceful Exits €15.00
Last
Rights €15.00
Dead Good Funerals Book, The €18.75
Natural
Death Handbook, The New €16.50
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| Earth
Care Manual, The €52.40
Earthwise €13.50
Principles of Sustainability, The €25.50
Greening School Grounds €19.50
Sustainable
Education €7.50
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12-16th October
Convergence Sustainable Living Festival
The festival will focus on the need to better
communicate the principles of sustainability.
Events will include the Education for Sustainable
Development conference which will progress the goals of the UN Decade
of Education for Sustainable Development, a lecture and workshops
on communicating sustainability, a FEASTA conference on peak oil,
a Green Burial conference (see below), and the Culture Symposium
which will bring together leading thinkers and doers from the spheres
of education, science, business, the arts and entertainment to address
the pressing cultural issues faced today.
October 12th - Youth Forum – Tipping
the Balance
October 12th - FEASTA Conference - Energy prices and Ireland's
Future
October 12th - Vital Viewing – ‘Peak Oil – Imposed
By Nature’
October 12th - 'Oil, Climate and Food' - A lecture by Michael
Meacher
October 13th - Education for Sustainable Development Seminar and
Workshops
October 13th - Buckminster Fuller Presentation
October 14th - Vital Viewing - 'The End of Suburbia'
October 14th - Low Carbon Community - A Village Presentation
October 15th - Communicating Sustainability Seminar and Workshops
October 15th - Being Human – A Journey with Yoga, Meditation,
Dance and Visuals
October 16th - Bury Me Green Conference
October 16th - The Art of Living
October 12th to 16th - Climate Change Art Exhibit
Find out more here.
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| Sunday
October 9th 2005, Installation Techniques for Solar Water Heaters
Ivan Lucas of Navitron Ltd. is giving a workshop
for DIY enthusiasts
Time: 2.00pm to
5.00pm
At: Ardnashee,
Coomanore North, Bantry, Co. Cork. (see directions below)
Fee: €20.
(€10 concessions) All Proceeds go to the Irish National Forestry
Foundation
Please book early as numbers are limited
The workshop will look at methods of ensuring
safe and effective use of solar water heaters covering;
- Various installation options
(thermosyphoning / roof-mounted & pumped)
- Considerations for panel and
water tank sizes.
- Roof-mounting options and
flashing
- Ancilliary equipment (differential
thermostats, pumps etc.)
- Safety and protection from
overheating, freezing and excess pressures
- Different Navitron™
solar panel systems and their advantages / disadvantages
Our own flatplate collector which heats water
for our family will also be on display, and Ivan will be happy to
answer questions on Navitron micro hydro and wind turbine systems.
This course is intended for competent DIY enthusiasts.
A separate workshop for qualified plumbers will be held on Saturday
8th. Click here for more information on plumbers workshop
Navitron specialises in importing low cost quality
alternative energy systems from China thereby ensuring affordable
prices. Sample prices (delivered West Cork)
- Solar water heater 2M2 €640
- 500watt wind turbine with
controller/inverter €780
- 200 watt micro-hydro €550
Check out Navitron's site here
For further information:
If you need more information, please email
Quentin and Clare or call them on 027 52773 between 7.00pm and
10.00pm
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Designing
with Solar Power €75.00
Planning
and Installing Solar Thermal Systems €97.50
Real
Goods Solar Living Sourcebook — 12th Edition €37.50
Solar
Economy, The €28.50
Solar
Energy Houses €82.50
Solar
Heating Systems for Houses €97.50
Solar
Manifesto, A €25.50
Understanding
Renewable Energy Systems €37.45
Solar
House, The €37.50
Solar
Installations €52.50
Solar Energy - the State of the Art €127.50
Solar
Heating in Cold Regions €23.90
Tapping
The Sun €5.25
Solar
Water Heating: A DIY guide €9.00
Pupil`s
Guides To Solar Power €4.50
Solar
Electricity Projects - Teachers` Guide €6.00
Solar
Heating - Teachers` Guide €6.00
Solar
World, A €9.00
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2nd-6th
October, 3rd World Environmental Education Congress (WEEC), Torino,
Italy
The summoning of an international meeting on
environmental education has been anticipated for a good many years.
The idea first got underway at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro
in 1992, becoming a concrete reality in 2003 with the First World
Environmental Education Congress (1st WEEC) held in Espinho, Portugal.
The NGOs that drafted an “Alternative Treaty on Environmental
Education” in Rio in 1992 had pledged to hold a “Planetary
Meeting of Environmental Education for Sustainable Societies”
within 3 years, but nothing more was ever done.
The 3rd Congress in Torino 2005 (3rd WEEC) brings
the phase of consolidating the Congresses to an end and paves the
way for the series of biennial Congresses to follow. Significantly,
the 3rd WEEC in Torino in 2005 occurs during the inaugural year
of the Worldwide Decade of Education for Sustainable Development
(DESD), proclaimed by the United Nations for the ten-year period
of 2005-2014. With the Congresses in Espinho (2003) and Torino (2005),
the great international assemblies on environmental education return
to Europe after having been absent since 1997 (Thessaloniki Conference
"Environment and Society: Education and Public Awareness for
Sustainability").
For more information see their
website.
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All
The Colours of The Earth €10.50
Awesome
Things To Make With Recycled Stuff €15.00
Teaching
Green €13.50
Teaching
Green – The Elementary Years €24.75
Teaching
Toward Freedom €24.00
Everyone
Wins! €9.00
Eco-School,
An €16.50
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Weekend
in the Woods - C.E.L.T. - 1st/2nd October 2005 at Bealkelly Wood,
Tuamgraney, Co Clare
Another big weekend of traditional and ecological
skills at all levels for adults (age 14+).
Choice of 15 courses in traditional skills
and ecology - Courses on offer:
DRY STONE & MORTAR
WALLING
WOODCARVING
BASKETRY
HERBLORE
COPPERSMITHING
SILVERSMITHING
BLACKSMITHING
INTRO TO POTTERY
INTRO TO PERMACULTURE
INTRO TO SUSTAINABLE WOODLAND MANAGEMENT
GREENWOOD FURNITURE MAKING
LONGBOW MAKING
POLE-LATHE MAKING
TIPI-MAKING
NATURAL BUILDING
WATTLE & DAUB
Course fees: 120 euro waged and 100 unwaged/
students per weekend. There
is a small materials charge on some courses (were applicable) payable
directly to the tutor.
Please note that places are limited,
so do book soonest if you are interested.
Course times 10.30 am to 5pm
Hot wholesome meals available on site...
also a teahouse. You may camp on site in the designated area
(leave only your footprints). Advisable to bring Wellies / strong
workboots, penknife, torch, raingear and personal tools were applicable
to your course. Accomodation list on the website.
See their site
for details and on-line booking or phone Bob or Karen on 061
640 765 or email them for
more info.
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Champion
Trees of Britain and Ireland €37.50
Irish
Trees €20.00
Strangely
Like War €14.90
Woodland
Way, The €25.40
Woodland
And Wildlife €22.50
Chainsaw
Carving €29.90
Living
Willow Sculpture €11.95
Identifying
Wood €44.90
Tree
Wisdom €19.50
Man
Who Planted Trees, The €10.45
Woodland
House, The €22.45 |
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27th
September, Amnesty International’s Inaugural National Conference
on Human Rights Based Approaches (HRBA) at the Guinness StoreHouse,
St. James’s Gate, Dublin 8
The Conference will address the nature
and scope of Human Rights Based Approaches, experiences with them
to date in Ireland, and the possibilities for their increased application
into the future.
Speakers
will include:
Michael O’Flaherty (Member of the UN Human
Rights Committee)
Fergus Finlay (Chief Executive of Barnardos)
Melanie Verwoerd (Former South African Ambassador
to Ireland)
David Petrasek (Policy Director at the Centre
for Humanitarian Dialogue)
Bill Schabas (Director of the Irish Centre for
Human Rights)
Karen Kenny (Director of the International Human
Rights Network)
There is no fee for attending the conference
but places are limited and we expect that they will fill quickly.
Contact Ciarán Lawlor Tel: 01 6776361 ext: 247 Fax: 01 6776392
or email him. |
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Freedom
of Movement €9.00
Human
Rights and the Environment €30.00
Rights
in the Home €16.50
Workers
Rights €10.50
Towards
a Culture of Human Rights in Ireland €15.00
Business
and Human Rights €29.90 |
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Friday
23rd September to Sunday 25th September, Graiguenamanagh ‘Town
of Books ’ Festival
The first two years of the festival have been a roaring success.
Book STEPs attended last year and we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves.
We're too busy with the shop this year but highly recommend it to
one and all.
For one weekend in September Graiguenamanagh will be transformed
into a ‘Town of Books’ with booksellers from all over
Ireland and this year, for the first time, they are expecting their
first overseas bookseller to attend. Details of the Scottish visitor
are being finalised and will be available soon.
Whether you are looking for a special book, out of date and out
of print, first edition or author signed, or whether you are looking
for bargain books at great prices, then Graiguenamanagh ‘Town
of books’ is a must for you. And this is only the beginning.
The establishment of this festival has resulted in a permanent antiquarian
bookmarket being established in Graiguenamanagh and more bookshops
are being planned for later this Summer. Soon every weekend will
be a book weekend in Graiguenamanagh.
Find out more at their website. |
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Book
Covering Self-Adhesive Clear Film €2.99
Book
Tokens €0.00
Handmade
Book, The €12.00
Penland
Book Of Handmade Books €37.45
Wooden
Book Stand €8.80
Making
Books that Fly, Fold, Wrap, Hide, Pop Up, Twist & .. €19.40
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Community
Manifesto, A €25.50
Methods
for Community Participation €26.90
Community Planning Handbook, The €25.50
Network
Logic €15.00 |
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Global Networks
Conference
organised by the INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL
INTEGRATION STUDIES (IIIS)
in TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN on 23-24 SEPTEMBER
2005
The conference, emanating from the Global
Networks research project,
will showcase research and scholarship relating to the
interdisciplinary interests of researchers involved with this team
in
the fields of:
- Democracy and civil society
networks
- Transitional and post-conflict
societies
- Globalisation and performance
- Migration and performance
- Intercultural performance
- Historical networks
- Gendered migration networks
To register email Fabrizio
Trifiro or Karen Fricker
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22
- 24 September, 2005, Irish Sustainable Building Show
The Irish Sustainable Building show is the construction industry's
first exhibition dedicated to the sustainable market. The Show will
run alongside the Building Exhibition, the construction industry’s
biggest Event in Ireland. The Building Exhibition brings every serious
buyer, specifier and decision maker from the construction industry
under one roof.
at Simmonscourt, RDS, Dublin, find out more here.
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Disappearing
Irish Cottage, The €17.50
Whole House Book, The €52.50
Eco-Renovation
€14.90
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Action
Week on Disability - Enabled & Equal 2005
Take Action on Disability! 19th - 25th September
2005
Do you like to take part in sports like Swimming
- Football - Athletics - Racing - Golf? So do people with disabilities!
In the Campaigns Office, we've been gearing up for our annual Action
Week on Disability since early 2004. The theme for this year's campaign
is Sport & Recreation.
Your support will make a difference.
To find out how you can get involved, contact
your local Enable Ireland fundraiser.
Cork: 021 429 0001
Dublin & Wicklow: 01 261 5921
Galway: 091 526 321
Kildare: 045 846 108
Kerry: 066 712 8220
Limerick, Clare and North Tipperary: 061 301 830
Alternately, contact:
1800 204 304 • email
them • www.enableireland.ie |
Education
for
Special Needs €20.90
Clay
for People with
Special Needs €19.50
Disability
and Social
Policy in Ireland €18.00
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| Energy
Saving House, The €18.00
Powerdown €16.45
Real
Goods Solar Living Sourcebook €37.50
Before The Wells Run Dry €14.90
Final Energy Crisis, The €24.00
Natural
Home Heating €33.75
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September 18-24th
Energy Awareness Week
Energy Awareness Week is co-ordinated nationally
by SEI and this year takes place from 19th to 25th September. The
week gives us all an opportunity to think about how we use energy
and learn about the ways we can become more energy efficient. Using
energy efficiently saves you money and benefits the environment
so you can't lose!
Theme for Energy Awareness Week
The theme of this year’s Energy Awareness
Week is heat and how we can be more sustainable in heating our homes.
Did you know that by turning down your heating thermostat by 1 degree
celsius, you could save 10% on your heating bill? This is one of
the simple ways you can be more efficient in how you heat your home.
Find out more here. |
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Green
Festival Northwest September 16th-25th, 2005
The Green Festival takes place each year
in September in the northwest of Ireland, primarily in county Leitrim.
The Green Festival celebrates the regions natural
beauty, understated culture, important archeological sites, and
local food.
The emphasize of the festival is on the environment
and everyone is encouraged to dip in at whatever shade of “green”
they like. We believe the large number and diverse nature of the
events make it unique anywhere in the world.
See more details at
their site. |
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| The
Ballymun Eco Book €8.00 |
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17th
& 18th September 2005, Green Living Fair, Castle Espie, 10.30am–5.30pm
WWT in Castle Espie are holding the annual Green
Living Fair this September which features rustic crafts, talks,
workshops, organic vegetables, food and much more.
WWT Castle Espie Located on Strangford Lough,
3 miles south of Comber and 13 miles south-east of Belfast. Signposted
from the A22 Comber-Killyleagh-Downpatrick road.
Set on the banks of the stunning Strangford
Lough in Northern Ireland where almost the entire population of
Light-bellied Brent Geese reside during the winter months. For this
reason the Castle Espie foreshore is part of the Strangford Lough
Ramsar site. Throughout the year this tranquil and friendly centre
is a real delight and a must for the whole family.
Find out more here.
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State
of the World 2005 €22.50
The
Way €24.75
Saving
the Planet Without Costing the Earth €15.00
Earthfuture
€15.00 |
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