This is Al Gore’s speech exhorting Americans to change to a carbon-free economy in ten years.
The United States is a very large country. Ireland is a small one. If the United States can do it in ten years, we can do it in five.

We Can Solve It

As this ScienCentral News video explains, a Cornell chemist has started a company that’s now making plastics containing up to 50 percent CO2 - and it’s biodegradable.
Normal plastic will take decades or even centuries to degrade, so this could be excellent news in a world that relies so much on plastic. It’s only part [...]

In the Middle Ages, the Vikings and their descendants the Normans were the top dogs in Europe when it came to trade . Their modern counterparts are doing it again, with Denmark top dog and Sweden, Finland, the Netherlands, Iceland and Norway in the top ten in the world when it comes to the Networked [...]

We all know that the Republic’s corporation tax rate is the prime reason why multinationals remain in Ireland. Microsoft Ireland managing director Joe Joe Macri expanded on this point during an address to the Leinster Society of Chartered Accountants back in January. There’s only a 4% differential on the return between Ireland and eastern [...]