Members from Britain and Ireland meet to discuss current thinking on the climate crisis and draw up the group’s programme of work for the next year. This year’s meeting is in Cloughjordan, County Tipperary, Ireland. Attendance is limited to 20 and only two or three places are still available.
Date and Time: Saturday Sept 18th 2010.
11-1: Official business of the AGM, open to full Feasta members.
2-4: Informal session, open to anyone interested in Feasta. This was a round-table discussion: ”In many aspects of life there is great uncertainty – not only about the long-term but also the near-term future. What does this mean for Feasta as an organisation?”
Venue: The Greenhouse, 17 St. Andrews St., Dublin 2.
Agenda for Annual Planning Day 2009
Sat January 31st 2009 11am – 4.30pm
Chaired by Emer O’Siochru
11 – 11.45: Review of Feasta’s activities in the past year arising from 2008 Annual Planning Day minutes
11.45 – 3.15 (including lunch) Feasta Project Presentations and discussion
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Date: 24 November 2007, 11.30am – 1pm
Venue: ENFO offices, 17 St. Andrew’s Street, Dublin 2.
Notice of Annual General Meeting
Feasta Ltd
10A Lwr Camden St
Dublin 2
Ireland
Company Registration No. 319430
The Feasta AGM 2007 will be held on
Saturday November 24th, 11.30am – 1pm
ENFO offices
17 St Andrews’ St
Dublin 2
Agenda :
1. Minutes of 2006 AGM
2. Adoption of 2006 Accounts
3. Financial update
4. Appointment of Auditor
5. Adoption of Budget 2007
6. Appointment of Directors
7.…
In a departure from previous years, Feasta’s 2007 Members’ Weekend was held as part of a larger event, the first ever “Irish Green Gathering”, at Woodbrook House outside Bunclody, Co. Wexford in August. The aim was to allow members to meet, have fun and get excited by new ideas. To launch the weekend Feasta hosted a social gathering on the Friday night. As with the other Feasta events that weekend it was held in the beautiful ‘Old Chapel’, for which we were very grateful as it rained for most of the weekend!
Feasta staged two major talks on Saturday…
Date: Evening, Friday 27th – afternoon, Sunday 29th July, 2007
Venue: Glencree Reconciliation Centre, Co. Wicklow, Ireland
The weekend, which was held jointly with Cap and Share, was intended to discuss and develop the group’s ideas in the climate and energy area and relate these to Cap and Share’s campaign.
Date: Friday, 27th July, 7.30 pm, sharp.
Venue: Central Hotel, Exchequer Street, Dublin 2.
An evening of presentations and discussions on the theme:
climate change, peak oil and global equity
by members of the group.
Members of the group, including those visiting from Britain for the annual meeting at Glencree, presented the latest information on the timing of the peaks in oil, gas and coal production and how this relates to the climate crisis. Other topics included a discussion on whether the EU’s target of limiting the rise in global temperatures to 2 degrees…
Date: 10am -4 pm, January 20, 2007
Venue: 161, Lower Rathmines Road, Dublin 6
All paid-up members of Feasta were invited to participate in its annual planning meeting which was at from 10am on Saturday, January 20th until around 4pm at 161, Lower Rathmines Road, Dublin 6. There was also a Skype connection for those unable to attend.
The meeting discussed and developed the programme for the year and also explored what type of organisation we would like Feasta to be in, say, three years’ time.
Date: October 7-9 2005
Venue: Nano Nagle Centre, Nr Mallow, Co Cork
Richard Douthwaite, co-founder of Feasta and much-loved colleague and friend, died on November 14th 2011 after a long illness. We will miss his unique and far-ranging intellect, the clarity of his thought and writing, his warmth and his laughter. Tributes to him have come in from around the world and you can read them here.
In line with his wishes, we are continuing with our scheduled events and publishing of articles.
Professor Mary Mellor –
Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Northumbria
Chair of the Sustainable Cities Research Institute
Date: Saturday 11th February, 6pm
Venue: Boole 2, UCC, Cork
Date: 17th, 18th & 19th of February, Cloughjordan, Tipperary.
The aim of this weekend conference is to introduce the CSA concept to communities and growers on the island of Ireland. The event will bring together food producers and emerging Irish CSA’s while creating networking and learning opportunities with experienced initiatives from across Europe.
Feasta’s Autumn conference examined measures that this country could adopt to secure its economic future which would not leave it reliant on external factors largely outside of its control. Scenarios explored included the potential collapse of the eurozone. The conference featured prominent international and Irish economists and was aimed at economists, politicians, policy-makers, business people, social partners, and other key decision-makers.
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