I’ve written 3 whistleblowing blogs in the past 30 hours. These areas need to be addressed to help us progress with participatory democracy enabling a national mobilisation to address climate and biodiversity collapse. I haven’t been very active blogging in 2019 but these stories have been brewing all year. Feel free to use the information … More Final Thoughts to Close 2019
Election cycles allow the permanent administration undo the dynamic work of visionary, change making elected representatives. Politicians can be closer to public opinion, undoubtedly communicate with the public and will probably bring new perspectives to their roles within government. In a representative democracy this can be a very muted form of public participation as the … More Public Participation – a 2020 Challenge
Just over 7 years ago I wrote 2 articles on preparing your home and community for a crisis. The thought process behind the articles was pretty grim and not one for social conversation at that time yet it was where my mind had been for the previous 5 years. I had been considering how climate … More My Journey with ATCC
Dopes What kind of dope ignores the science? afraid to upset the banks, the business, the foreign direct investors afraid of the almighty powers that rule the finances afraid of the hands that can strangle the economies afraid of their shadows as they pale into insignificance because at the end of the day politicians are … More Dopes
“What are they learning from all of this? Humans have a massive impact on the ecosystem that supports it. How we should care for it. That we need to stop using carbon to give our atmosphere a chance to get well. That the actions of the past century have caused this accelerated climate change. That … More What are we teaching our children?
Having attended the regional dialogue on climate action in Tralee today I thought to share this post from 2016. I’m still saying government needs to convene a meeting of all head office officials of bodies with branches in communities throughout Ireland – GAA, Scouts, ICA, IFA, Church, Tidy Towns, Foroige, FAI etc etc. Then compel … More Proposal to National Dialogue on Climate Action #climatedialogueIRL
Originally posted on Building Bridges between Policy and People:
How do we budget in the coming years so that we can pay fines for not taking action to reduce our green house gas emissions? Where will the money come from? Healthcare? Education? Welfare? Pensions? They are the burning questions I will take away from the…
Best match of my life 😉 via Up for the Game at Croke Park
Originally posted on Building Bridges between Policy and People:
As some of you will know I have spent the past number of years advocating for the People’s Energy Charter request for comprehensive public participation in Ireland’s National Energy Transition Plan. A brief synopsis of the outcome is here and more in-depth report on my work…
or doesn’t work as the case tends to be! A look at local government. Back in 2009 when I first sat on Laois CDB, County Development Board, I received a briefing by a member of another county development board. This was my big step from community activist to representative so I was eager to understand … More How The System Works
