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The Future is Rural Festival - October 4th & 5th
Posted on September 25, 2019 by Claudia Tormey
Celebrating sustainable food, farming and community energy
Come along to 'The Future is Rural', a sustainable rural futures fair on October 4 and 5, in Ballina, County Mayo.
Delivered by Foodture, the Irish Environmental Network and Friends of the Earth, this event includes film screenings, talks, stalls, demonstrations and children's workshops, all focussed on building sustainable rural futures through food, farming and community energy.
In Our Hands: Seeding Change
6 - 9pm, Friday, October 4, 2019
The first part of this event is a screening in the museum's AV Theatre of the award-winning and thought-provoking documentary In Our Hands: Seeding Change. This will be followed by a lively panel discussion with foodies, farmers, activists and experts.
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Strike!!
Posted on September 20, 2019 by Friends of the Earth
Today, September 20th, the Friends of the Earth office is closed. We are joining the Global Climate Strike to
demand climate action.
Find your local strike at the link below and
join us on the streets.
Everyone is invited. Everyone is needed.
https://www.stopclimatechaos.i
"I want you to act as you would in a crisis. I want you to act as if
our house is on fire. Because it is" - Greta Thunberg
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Dublin Friends of the Earth Beach Clean Sept 21st 10:30am
Posted on September 18, 2019 by Meaghan Carmody
Time to clean up! 🚨
Beach clean-up this Saturday 21st of September, 10:30am at Dollymount Strand.
If you want to help out on the day, please complete this form!
This is our first social event since our relaunch earlier in the Summer and DFoE would love to see as many people out helping as possible!
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It's time to support the peat workers. Dáil to debate 'Just Transition' Bill. Government must sit down with Trade Unions now.
Posted on September 18, 2019 by Kate Ruddock
We all know working in fossil fuels is not a job for the future. Extracting and burning peat and coal is not compatible with a planet that is safe for us to live on. This means the industry has to wind down. Fast.
In Ireland many of these jobs are in peat and coal, and the wind down is happening already. But the people and communities whose livelihoods depend on fossil fuel jobs in Bord na Móna and ESB, which are state-owned companies, are being let down badly.
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Can you help the School Strikers be seen and heard? Literally.
Posted on September 17, 2019 by Oisín Coghlan
One of Greta Thunberg's great lines is "When we start to act, hope is everywhere". For me, watching 11,000 young people throng Molesworth Street last March it was slightly different. Seeing such action all around, I started to hope.
The global School Strikes For Climate movement that Greta sparked [1] has given me hope that together we can build a movement powerful enough, fast enough, to tip the balance towards serious climate action.
It is of course totally unjust that today's teenagers have to give up part of their childhoods to clear up the mess adults caused, in order to rescue us and save their own future.
So when the young Strikers ask for help, I really want to say yes.
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Support the Climate Strike Movement!
Posted on September 11, 2019 by Claudia Tormey
It's a Climate Emergency.
And on September 20th, we're filling the streets.
On Friday the 15th of March 2019 1.6 million people took part in a global climate strike in more than 125 countries in more than 2,000 locations. In Ireland more than 15,000 students took part in protests for urgent climate action.
This September 20th, we're going to smash that number. But we need you to make that happen!
Find and join your nearest strike!
School-age students have self-organised marches around the country and they need you to attend.
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11 Sept 7pm - Talk with Dublin FoE Activist Group: Title: Earth in Crisis - Humanity at a Crossroads.
Posted on September 11, 2019 by Meaghan Carmody
Dublin Friends of the Earth is delighted to invite you to a talk next Wednesday 11th September at 7pm sharp.
Title: Earth in Crisis - Humanity at a Crossroads.
The main speaker will be Fergal Costello (DFoE), who will give an illustrated talk on climate change plus ecological degradation and what we can do about it. We will also have valuable contributions from a student climate activist as well as Aine O'Gorman from Stop Climate Chaos.
Venue: The Teachers' Club, 36 Parnell Square West, Dublin 1.
Don't miss it - a definite date for your diary in advance of the big climate protest in Dublin on 20th September!
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IPCC’s Special Report on Climate Change and Land Use
Posted on September 08, 2019 by Claudia Tormey
The last few months have seen new temperature records across Europe, and unprecedented forest fires from Brazil to the Arctic.
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Stop Climate Chaos at MacGill Summer School
Posted on August 15, 2019 by Claudia Tormey
Catherine Devitt, Head of Policy with Stop Climate Chaos, was invited to speak at the 39th MacGill Summer School in the small town of Glenties, co. Donegal.
The well-renowned summer school brings together people from all walks of life to engage in discussion on some of the most urgent social, economic and environmental issues of the day.
Catherine participated in a panel, discussing “With its natural habitat and environment, Ireland has a major resource which is at risk of being destroyed.” Catherine’s contribution is available in the video here at this link.
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Peat.
Posted on August 13, 2019 by Kate Ruddock
Friends of the Earth objected to ESB's proposal for a peat and biomass plant at Shannonbridge West Offaly. The idea that Ireland would import chopped up trees and woody materials from all over the world to burn alongside dried out peat in order to produce electricity was unconscionable. Our bogs are Ireland's equivalent of the Amazon rainforest. Our biodiversity hotspots. Fragile ecosystems bursting with plants and animals not found anywhere else AND they serve as natural carbon sinks, sucking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere helping us to combat climate breakdown.
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