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Building a sustainable economy: Climate Conversations II | All the Rusted Signs

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All the Rusted Signs. Building a sustainable economy: Climate Conversations II. April 7, 2015. May 18, 2015. Sen James Inhofe and his hard evidence that global warming is a myth. 8220;Do you know what this is? 8221; Senator Jim Inhofe , standing in front of a picture of his snow-bound family, holds up a snowball and tosses it to the sitting president of the US Senate. 8220;It’s a snowball… It’s very, very cold out.”. Is astonishing. As world leaders blunder from one failed climate summit. Larry Elliot no...

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Earth Day on the Pale Blue Dot | All the Rusted Signs

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All the Rusted Signs. Earth Day on the Pale Blue Dot. April 22, 2015. May 12, 2015. Today is Earth Day. 8211; and no better day to revisit Carl Sagan. 8216;s mesmerising and humbling perspective on the famous “ pale blue dot. 8221; photograph of our planet. I find myself coming back to this time and time again – just to remind myself of what really matters. If you do one thing for Earth Day, take three minutes to watch it. Wherever on the pale blue dot you are, have a nice Earth Day. Posted in Eco Logic.

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What would Jesus vote? | All the Rusted Signs

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All the Rusted Signs. What would Jesus vote? May 20, 2015. May 21, 2015. As Ireland votes on marriage equality, is the religious objection really as clear-cut as it seems? Yesterday, someone very close to me said that, because of his religious beliefs he couldn’t bring himself to vote Yes. He had made his mind up to vote No because he believed it was what Jesus would do. I left the religious issue out of yesterday’s post because this is a referendum purely on the issue of. Jesus really vote No? We can&#8...

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Societal shift: When Ireland came out for equality | All the Rusted Signs

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All the Rusted Signs. Societal shift: When Ireland came out for equality. May 29, 2015. May 29, 2015. Even before the marriage equality referendum, the Yes campaign had already raised the status of LGBT people in Irish society for good. Photo credit: Brian Lawless/Newscom. I knew he was right. I’d seen that change. We’ve all see it. Over the last few months, Ireland’s LGBT community has come out. 8211; a distinction made brilliantly by American activist Ash Beckham. Coming out to the nation. Did, and no ...

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Faith, atheism and climate justice: Climate Conversations IV | All the Rusted Signs

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All the Rusted Signs. Faith, atheism and climate justice: Climate Conversations IV. May 8, 2015. May 16, 2015. Floods on the Ganges River, submerge a statue of the Hindu god Shiva. Rishikesh, India June 16-17, 2013. As an atheist (albeit with a recent curiosity for Buddhism), I approached the fourth in the series of Climate Conversations. Prophetic Voices with some trepidation. Though the main two NGOs involved Trócaire. Are overtly faith-based organisations, Climate Conversations has so far. I had two f...

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Living with enough is our task and duty: Climate Conversations III | All the Rusted Signs

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All the Rusted Signs. Living with enough is our task and duty: Climate Conversations III. April 20, 2015. May 12, 2015. As if there were no end to plenty. Peter Fallon, “Late Sentinels. This line from poet-farmer Peter Fallon. This session – The Sustainable Use of Our Land – highlighted the scale of the challenge for Ireland and the quandaries and dilemmas we will face in restructuring our own economy, in which agricultural food production plays such a huge role. As I had expected, the post-dairy-quota.

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Vote with your head as well as your heart | All the Rusted Signs

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All the Rusted Signs. Vote with your head as well as your heart. May 19, 2015. May 20, 2015. The freedoms of real people and real families are at stake. In Ireland’s marriage referendum. We must put the facts before the fears when we vote. My nephew Alejandro is nine. He doesn’t like to be left out of the loop. He could be watching TV, reading or playing video games but if he catches so much as a whisper in an adult conversation, he’ll drop everything and demand “What? Children deserve a mother and father.

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No Country for Old Men: Yeats, Joyce and Hugh Lane | All the Rusted Signs

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All the Rusted Signs. No Country for Old Men: Yeats, Joyce and Hugh Lane. June 13, 2015. January 28, 2016. As William Butler Yeats turns 150, an exhibition at the Hugh Lane is a little like having the poet as a tour guide. William Butler Yeats, 1933. You would hardly know it was three days to Bloomsday. The middle of June in Dublin is usually infused with Joycean events and readings and articles, but this year, the face in the arts pages, banners and posters is not James Joyce. But WB. Yeats. On a whim, ...