Tag: Robert Navan

Enviro – 30th January 2017

admin February 1, 2017
In the first half of the program, John O’Rourke talked about new discoveries about trees. John referred to Peter Wohlleben’s book ‘The Hidden Life of Trees’ and explained that Wohlleben, a forester and environmentalist, set out to prove that trees are sentient,…
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Enviro – 9th January 2017

admin January 11, 2017
In the first half hour, Gillian Bird of the DSPCA (the Dublin Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) talked about recent animal cruelty incidents (see Irish Independent article 5 th . January 2017- ‘Alarm over kid’s roles in animal abuse cases’). She…
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Enviro – 5th December 2016

admin December 7, 2016
Robert Navan talked about the send off which the Cuban people gave to the leader of the Cuban revolution Fidel Castro, who died on November 25 2016 aged 90. In the discussion which followed, it referred to last week’s explanation by Simon…
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Enviro – 28th November 2016

admin November 30, 2016
Simon McGuinness, National Coordinator of Cuba Support Group Ireland uses Cuba as a case study of sustainable development in his MSc module level course at the Dublin Institute of Technology. Simon’s contention that Cuba is the only currently successful model for sustainable…
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Enviro – 10th August 2016

admin October 12, 2016
  PART ONE: Environmentalist Brendan Kelly updated listeners on the right to water, the polluter pays principle and the implications of these. He spoke about the current consultation with regard to the Aarhus Convention. Ireland ratified the UNECE Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation…
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