Tag Archives: Irish Wildlife Trust

Step by step towards a lower carbon future

Posted on January 8, 2023 by John Gibbons

Here’s a piece that ran in the Irish Daily Star in the first week of January, my 10-point guide for those dipping a toe in the water of climate action in 2023. It’s not intended to be either definitive or … Continue reading →

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Green in name, but not in nature

Posted on October 12, 2020 by John Gibbons

Despite huge ongoing investment of both political capital and marketing euros in selling the message that Irish agriculture is green, climate-friendly and sustainable, it still keeps on running into the knotty problem that this simply isn’t the case. Recent comments … Continue reading →

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Rout of global biodiversity comes with a heavy price tag

Posted on June 20, 2019 by John Gibbons

Below, my article as it appeared in the summer edition of ‘Irish Wildlife’, the magazine of the  Irish Wildlife Trust, an organisation well worth supporting. I gave a one-hour presentation followed by a Q&A at an IWT ‘Green Drinks’ event … Continue reading →

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