The People Before Profit Alliance (PBPA) have begun a major campaign to halt plans by developer Noel Smyth to build an eight-storey apartment block on a car-park currently used by St Michael's public hospital.
I wish to congratulate Dublin Bus for the recent introduction of the new Volvo Environ 4.0 buses onto Routes 1, 2 and 3 out of Ringsend Garage and onto various Routes operating out of Clontarf Garage.
The more I think about it the more I believe that the latest proposal from Minister for Integration, Conor Lenihan (that of introducing an English-language requirement in the granting of work or residency permits and citizenship applications) are ill-considered.
Large wind power turbines located with well defined concern for the environment could perhaps provide a certain amount of Ireland's future energy requirement, along with other important renewable sources including wave and tidal energy generation. Large wind turbines of over 300 feet in height apparently need to be over surfaces that cause little obstruction to wind flow. The sea has the smoothest surface and the least obstructed wind flow.
Minister for Integration, Conor Lenihan wants to see proficiency in the English language become a prerequisite for residency, the issuing of work permits and ultimately Irish citizenship for people entering the country.
Richard Boyd Barrett of the People Before Profit Alliance in Dun Laoghaire has condemned as “ridiculous” the proposal by Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown Co Council to ban angling on the county's beaches.
ISME, the Independent Business Organisation, has welcomed the announcement by the Commission for Energy Regulation anticipating reductions in electricity prices of 5.9% for small businesses and 10% for medium businesses as and from the 1st November 2007.
A eco-friendly centre in Dublin's Temple Bar, Cultivate, is running a number of eco-events over the next few weeks.
George Monbiot is a journalist, author, academic and environmental and political activist in the UK and author of Heat: How to Stop the Planet Burning. He writes a weekly column for the Guardian newspaper. Here he advises Britain on how to reduce their carbon emissions, as well as issues such as climate change censorship, and climate change solutions.
We are nowhere near accepting the kind of radical policies required to halt the degradation of our planet. Almost certainly much further damage will be caused before there is a public realisation of what is required.