Access to justice must be “fair, equitable, timely and not prohibitively expensive” But new cost rules breach Constitution, Aarhus Convention & EU law by putting public & civil society organisations under financial constraints that don’t apply to State or others www.antaisce.org/news/an-tais...

An Taisce has launched a challenge in the court against the government's new legal cost rules

Together, An Taisce and Friends of the Irish Environment initiated a court challenge to new regulations that put a cap on the costs litigants in environmental legal cases can recover if they win their...

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Tomorrow, Ireland takes over as EU Council Presidency for six months, when the EU is renegotiating tech and tax rules. In The Guardian this morning I argue it must recuse itself from these discussions because it is so captured by big tech. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Ireland is big tech’s lapdog – and that compromises its EU presidency | Johnny Ryan

The country is dependent on the global giants that call Dublin home. Irish ministers can’t be trusted to chair vital European digital sovereignty talks, says Irish civil liberties campaigner Johnny Ry...

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He is incorrect: Ireland fined Meta €1.2B because it was forced to by EU peers. Ireland's DPC had actually proposed a fine of €0! See para 38 of EDPB Decision 1/2023.

With your help we ensured that the Nature Restoration Law was adopted. Now help us ensure we secure an ambitious plan to #RestoreNature. Be a voice for nature - make a submission to the public consultation on the Nature Restoration Plan www.environmentalpillar.ie/have-your-sa...

Sehr, sehr tolle arte-Doku zu niederländischen Blumen- & Insektenmalerinnen & Kulturförderinnen des 17. Jahrhunderts, auch zur aufkommenden Wissenschaft zu diesen Pflanzen & Tieren. Sicherlich was für @schreibersnaturarium.de 😍 www.arte.tv/de/videos/12...

Flower Power - Niederländische Malerinnen im 17. Jahrhundert - Die ganze Doku | ARTE

Im 17. Jahrhundert bewirkten die Naturwissenschaften, dass niederländische Malerinnen Reptilien und Insekten in ihre Kunst holten. Frauen wie Maria Sibylla Merian, Alida Withoos und Maria Moninckx hab...

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This is not an advertisement The participating tech companies push self-loathing and suicide into children’s feeds, the sponsoring law firm works for TikTok and Meta, and the expert is the person who sued all other EU enforcers to not act against Meta. legal-news.mhc.ie/14/1251/may-...

Ireland already knows how to deliver an ambitious plan, and it comes down to this: you fund it. A nature restoration plan without money is like a human without a heart. It will never work. www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

Ireland is trying to fund environmental protection on the cheap

Nature restoration isn’t a luxury. It’s one of the highest-return investments available to the State

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The fuel protests in Ireland are a Trojan Horse that aim to bring fascism to Ireland. We are witnessing the birth of an Irish version MAGA. The more you look, the more obvious it is that many of the key spokesmen (and they are all men) are dangerous anti-immigrant far right agitators.Wake up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jG6B0o1QfQ

The cost of spiritual healing in the Amazon

YouTube video by The Guardian

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Looks like we're still firmly in the grip of Rainbow season. County Clare, Ireland.

Have your say by January 15 deadline. In all our time in An Taisce, this is one of the biggest threats to environmental protection that we have ever faced. These proposed changes are clearly unlawful, undemocratic & unfair. For more: www.antaisce.org/news/all-han... #environmentaljustice

The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · 7mo ago

An Taisce urges public to object to ‘unlawful’ caps on judicial review fees

Financial barriers to environmental litigation are against the law, because protecting the environment is an important public interest. The government now wants to make it super expensive (>€100,000) for ordinary people to go to court to protect the environment Please read and take action 👇

I had to re-read this a few times because it is hard to believe. Demand from proposed new data centres might be as high as 5.8GW, equivalent to *peak electricity demand for the entire country*. www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

New data centres may need additional electricity supply close to Ireland’s peak demand

Expected new demand for data centres of 5.8GW would exceed Ireland’s 2030 offshore wind target of 5GW

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I’ve written something on John Collison’s Op-Ed and environmental democracy Next time you’re out in Dublin, check if you’re being “socially de-risked” by a friendly face from his think-tank elajucd.com/2025/11/21/o...

On Environmental Democracy and the Collisons’ “Abundance-Verse”

Andrew Jackson 21 November 2025 I. Introduction A clamour of praise greeted John Collison’s “how to get Ireland moving” Op-Ed following its publication in the Irish Times on 25th October: the Irish…

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It was a great pleasure to have Isabella Tree from Knepp Estate as a guest in our lecture series "Naturnahe Beweidung im Fokus". Her talk ist now on Youtube. Overly positive comments from the audience, e.g. "The best zoom event on conservation I ever experienced" www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaDT...

Met a truly remarkable landowner 3 wks ago. Farm tour of hedges surrounding his fields dedicated to wild bird cover crops. He was kind enough to let me return, collect seed and observe it more closely. Surrounded by conventional farming many traditional farm birds flock to feed in the winter 1/2

Roots of Solidarity | Eco-Arts Festival Loughrea, Co. Galway, 27/28 September 2025 Featuring dance, crafts, film, music, art, poetry, storytelling, walks, talks, nature trail activities and more. Keynote address: Dr. Peter Doran, 'The Rights of Nature are the Rights of Ireland...' #speirgorm

Roots of Solidarity, Eco-Arts Festival at Weekend in the Hills! | CELT

Eco Arts, Sustainable Living & Festival of Traditional Crafts ‘Weekend in the Hills’ & Palestinian Solidarity Event on Sept 27 & 28th

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Sustainable Living & Eco Arts Festival Kylebrack, Loughrea, Co. Galway 27 Sept 2025 & 28 Sept 2025, 10:30 - 16:30

Roots of Solidarity, Eco-Arts Festival at Weekend in the Hills at Slieve Aughty Centre - This is Galway

Celt are delighted to welcome you to a new family-friendly Sustainable Living & Eco Arts Festival event in the Slieve Aughty Centre

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Just a couple of days left to speak up for nature The European Commission wants to roll back vital environmental protections – and they’re asking for your opinion. Let them understand nature needs more help than ever #HandsOffNature Please send your message: swanireland.ie/take-action/...

Publishing this September . . . @newislandbooks.bsky.social @janeclarke.bsky.social

Two years on from the finding in the European Court against Ireland for not implementing the Habitats Directive, what has changed for Ireland's network of protected areas for nature? www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

Changing the conversation on Ireland’s Natura 2000 sites

‘If you live in a very special place, that should be a good thing and not a bad thing’

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"If you love a place, don't go there. There's more than one way to love." ~ Stephen Jenkinson www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgWp...

It's the 1 year anniversary of the Nature Restoration Law entering into force🎉💚 Citizens from across Europe demanded action to #RestoreNature & now it's up to our national governments to consult, draft, fund & implement ambitious Nature Restoration Plans 🫂✍️💰🌱 #RestoreNature

Talk & discussion with Starhawk on permaculture & social change Slieve Aughty Centre, Kylebrack, near Loughrea, Co. Galway 20 August 2025, 8pm - 9:30pm

“Just as we divorce ourselves from the natural world and destroy it, we do something extraordinary – we create staged-managed versions of the very thing that we’re losing. It offers us reassurance, a collective self-delusion, a mask to what we’re really doing”

National Parks in Glass Cases: Zed Nelson photographs the illusions at the heart of the Anthropocene - 1854 Photography

Shot over six years across four continents, ‘The Anthropocene Illusion’ is a disturbing insight into a world in which the natural world is replaced by spectacle

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THE HERDS

A public art and climate initiative from April–August 2025: life-size puppet animals travel 20,000km from the Congo Basin to the Arctic, fleeing climate disaster. Events and performances unite arts an...

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Resurgence@resurgencetrust.bsky.social · 12mo ago

The hugely ambitious public #artwork #TheHerds comes to an end with the release of a video showing the life-sized #puppet #animals as they finish their 20,000km journey. "we discovered not only how fragile our #environment is but also how resilient #nature can be..." Visit > www.theherds.org

Environmental Pillar endorses Talamh Beo statement on destruction of UAWC seed storage facilities at Hebron environmentalpillar.ie/environmenta...

10 of the best independent bookshops in Ireland www.rte.ie/culture/2025...

10 of the best independent bookshops in Ireland

With the rise of virtual stores, mobile-friendly subscriptions and Kindles, these stalwarts maintain that the proof is in the pages.

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Alfred Decker, together with Starhawk and Davie Philip, will be back teaching in Ireland (near Loughrea, Co. Galway) in August 2025. #permaculture #socialpermaculture

Earth Care and Social Permaculture with Starhawk and Alfred Decker | CELT

We live in a challenging time on the journey of humanity, but one which is also full of potential and possibility in joining together and through our everyday actions activate change and initiate a ne...

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Beyond Buckthorns@beyondbuckthorns.bsky.social · last yr.

PermaTalks Vol 5 sessions now free to watch. Alfred Decker's lecture about the social microclimate has been published - watch it at permapuheet.fi/alfred-decke... #permatalks #permaculture #education #community #network #sustainbility #socialpermaculture #eupn