Some people are just ahead of their time. In State Papers released under the 30 year rule, this nugget from Seán McBride: Nobel Peace Prize winner Seán MacBride wrote to the Taoiseach in April 1978, expressing concern about the nuclear plant plans and urging an examination of alternative sources of energy such as solar, wind, tidal and wave power. He pointed to a plan that had been discussed decades earlier, …Read more
Energy
The Reinvention of Urban Dublin…? with possibly a little help from Jaime Lerner?
Re the dreary turf war between Luas and Irish Rail over Broadstone, which according to today’s Irish Times Luas and …Read more
Do our electricity meters suck?
We all know the one about how, if every bulb in the country was changed to economic cfls (or leds, …Read more
Peak Oil 2010. End of Story
The Irish Times has been running a Negotiations for Government section in their letters page, so I thought I’d send …Read more
No to Nuclear
Kudos where they are due: Ireland has joined with Norway, Iceland and Austria to campaign against the use of nuclear …Read more
Transported : Draft 1(b) of an argument for Free Public Transport
NB This is a very rough draft. I originally posted this on the alternative party forum, now defunct, and haven’t …Read more