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Dublin city council and a state agency are planning to pump water from the River Shannon in the midlands of Ireland, up to the catchment area of Dublin, a distance closing on 80 miles. They are proposing to pump 350million litres of water per day to the city to help serve as drinking water for the next 70 years. Obviously this is stirring up huge controversy. I am not going to get involved in

A body in Ireland tasked with coming up with "creative" ideas to try and ease the pressure on struggling mortgage holders, reckon the best solution for these people is to hand back the keys to their homes, and to then go and join the social housing lists. No consideration of the stress involved, the social impact of this, the fear and desperation of the people involved. They are treated like numbers,

In 2010 it seems everyone has a "sustainable" product and a lot of businesses use the term to describe their operations. Government and institutional officials throw the term around like confetti. Everyone seems to think that just using the term makes them fit in with the new zeitgeist and new world order. After all the people want everything to be sustainable, right?Unfortunately nearly every single

Current Madness re: financing of countries.Bondholders = faceless "beings" who loan money to our governments to keep the show on the road; daily, weekly, monthly, annually. Our governments never realistically plan to pay off the principal borrowed, but only to service the loans yearly with interest repayments. The bond holders get fairly attractive returns on their investments (plus huge individual

Exciting News: March 14th 2010. My book also entitled "Building cities of Gold" will be published by ATTM press later in 2010. ATTM press are an exciting press that promote and publish work that has a positive message at its core.My book will be for sale on both ATTM press website or on Amazon.com when it is published.

Copenhagen 2009:2 weeks to save the world. That is what they are telling us, the leaders of this conference on climate change. According to them if we do not get agreements at the end of this conference then we will have wasted our last chance to save the world. The world, this amazing world that has supported life forms for 4 billion years. The mother earth who seems to have a benevolent predisposition

Teenagers/Young Adults: So often they get forgotten and misunderstood. They are yesterday's children and tomorrow's adults, yet as a demographic they are often left to fend for themselves.How does the isolation of this phase set in? After all they are only a few years removed from being cute little children who were adored by their parents and by people in society in general. In a few more short years

This should be a required mantra for people to say everyday. *We WILL NOT run out of resources. We have EVERYTHING we need here on Planet Earth*. Repeat three times. etc.. etc.Of course in our world of today this statement is not true. We are consuming more than our fair share of resources and we also have a strict tiered hierarchy where the very few get most of the spoils, i.e. 1% of people own

There are nearly seven billion of us on the planet. In percentage terms, nearly all of those people are housed. People often think that to have a sustainable community means going "off-grid", i.e. buying up land in splendid isolation and building houses of straw bales, cob and having compost toilets.But we can't all leave our current housing solutions and head off to the mountains to do this. First