“Treating the world as if we intended to stay”, to quote Crispin Tickell, neatly summarises the growing recognition that we need to respond to the […] Read More
Category: Climate Change
On 12 September 1962, US President John F Kennedy famously announced “We choose to go the Moon in this decade…not because it is easy, but […] Read More
In simpler times we used have community dances. Boys would congregate along one wall of the dance hall, and the girls on the other. Those […] Read More
What do you think of when someone mentions nitrogen? Maybe it would prompt the thought that it is fundamental to feeding the world’s eight million […] Read More
Between 1766 and 1805, the Dublin Society made grants for planting a total of 55 million trees in Ireland. This was on the back of […] Read More
When a company with an iconic brand like Rolls Royce claims to have the ‘answer’ to the clean energy future, you are inclined to give […] Read More
The holy grail of 100% renewable electricity for Australia finally appears to be within reach after the premier of the Australian state of Queensland recently […] Read More
Western urban dwellers like me take for granted that we can buy whatever food takes our fancy by just popping down to our local shopping […] Read More
The final iconic scene in the 1960s film Planet of the Apes is one of the most memorable in cinema history. Astronaut Charlton Heston discovers […] Read More
Rome was sacked by Gaul invaders in 390 BC, and in the 210s BC the Carthaginian general Hannibal wreaked havoc on the Italian Peninsula. Yet […] Read More