EVENTS

Positive Energy 2: Building Bioregional Resilience
Date and Time: 3-9 October 2009
Venue: Findhorn Foundation, Scotland
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PAST EVENTS

Seizing the Mid-Collapse Moment - Dmitry Orlov
Date and Time: 7:30 pm, 9th June 2009
Venue: Davenport Hotel, Dublin
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Feasta Conference - The New Emergency: Managing Risk and Building Resilience in a Resource Constrained World
Date and Time: 10th - 12th June 2009
Venue: All Hallows College, Dublin
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Workshop - Local Currencies and Transition Richard Douthwaite
Date and Time: 11:00, 26th April 2009 (Part of the Transition Ireland Gathering)
Venue: 15 - 19 Essex St West, Temple Bar, Dublin 8
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Launch of the Anne Behan Community Sustainability Award for Transition Initiatives
Date and Time: 12:00, 26th April 2009 (Part of the Transition Ireland Gathering)
Venue: 15 - 19 Essex St West, Temple Bar, Dublin 8
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RECOVERY - can Ireland be first? with Fred Harrison, organised by Konrad Dechant
Date and Time: Thursday April 2, 7:30 pm
Venue: Walton Theatre, Trinity College, Dublin
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Feasta Climate Group Meeting
Date and Time: lunchtime, Friday February 27th to lunchtime, Sunday March 1st
Venue: Friday: Central Hotel, Exchequer Street, Dublin, Saturday and Sunday, Emmaus Centre, Swords, Dublin
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Two Climate Change Presentations Brian Davey and Professor Mark Maslin
Date and Time: 7.15 pm, Friday, February 27th '09
Venue: Friday: McClelland Room, Central Hotel, Exchequer St, Dublin 2
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Feasta Annual Planning Meeting
Date and Time: Sat 31st Jan 2009, 10:30-4:30
Venue: ENFO, 17 St Andrew's Street, Dublin 2
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Cap and Share: A Fair Way to Cut Greenhouse Emissions
Feasta's side event at the UN climate conference in Poznan.
Date and Time: Thurs 11th December 2008, 9:00 - 10:30 am
Venue: Hall 11, the Wind Power Works Pavilion, Poznan, Poland
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Community Food Initiative Stakeholder Workshop
Food Security through Community Food Initiatives by Bruce Darrell
Date and Time: Mon 1st December 2008, 11:00am-14:30pm
Venue: Comhar SDC, 17 St. Andrew Street, Dublin 2

From Financial Crisis to the End of Growth: Building the future in an uncertain present
Future Proof Your Business Seminar presentation by David Korowicz
Date and Time: Thurs 27th November 2008, 9:30am - 2:00pm
Venue: Butler House, Kilkenny
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Skilling Up for Powerdown - 10 week course by Cultivate
Deconstructing Dinner: Food Systems by Bruce Darrell on 7th November
Global Citizenship: Opportunities for Change by David Korowicz on 28th November
Venue: Enniscorthy Enterprise Centre, Co. Wexford
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Feasta Lecture 2008
Capital Partnerships - a Debt-Free Solution to the Property Crash
Lecture by Chris Cook, an international expert on Open Capital.
Date: November 5, 7:00 pm
Venue: McClelland Room, Central Hotel, Exchequer St, Dublin 2.
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Higher education for sustainability through action-learning
A discussion with Kathleen Battke and Prof. Declan Kennedy from Gaia University.
Date and Time: Thursday 23th October 2008, Introduction 5pm - 6pm, Workshop 7:30pm - 9:30pm.
Venue: Feasta Offices, 14 St. Stephen's Green, Dublin 2
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Comhar Stakeholder Workshop: Cap and Share
Presenting the findings of research commissioned by Comhar, the Irish national sustainable development council, into Cap and Share
Date and Time: Wednesday 27th August 2008, 11 am - 2pm including lunch.
Venue: The Morgan Hotel, 10 Fleet St, Temple Bar, Dublin 2, Ireland
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Irish Green Gathering 2008
Date and Time: 8th-10th August 2008
Venue: Woodbrook House, Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford, Ireland
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Converging Crises, Policy Responses - Feasta Seminar Series
Date: 12 noon, 1 Friday followed by 4 Thursdays in June and July
Venue: Irish Architectural Archive building, 45 Merrion Square, Dublin 2
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Cap and Share meeting
Date: Evening of Wednesday June 25th 2008
Venue: Please for venue details
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Climate Forum - Presentations by six Feasta members
Date: Saturday - Sunday June 14th-15th 2008
Venue: South Camden Community School, Charrington Street, London NW1 (Warren Street, Kings Cross or Euston tubes)
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Sustainable Economics and the Global Ecosystem
Presentations by Emer O'Siochru and David Korowicz
Date: 7.30-9.30 pm, 3rd June 2008
Venue: Cork Environmental Forum, Radisson SAS (Cork) Airport Hotel
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Capping Carbon! (Post Carbon Toronto Meetup) Public presentation by Bruce Darrell
Date and Time:7 pm, Wednesday 7th May
Venue: Metro Hall, 55 John Street, Room 310, Toronto, Canada
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Combating Climate Change As An Individual
NUI Maynooth Talk with Cap and Share
Date: Wednesday 30th April, 7 pm
Venue: Lecture Hall 3, the John Hume Building, NUI Maynooth, Ireland
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Linking urban agriculture and built form to carbon cycles, energy use and nutrient flows
presentation by Bruce Darrell (part of conference "The Role of Food and Agriculture in the Design and Planning of Buildings and Cities")
Date: 3rd May, 4:00 pm- 5:45 pm
Venue: Ryerson University Department of Architectural Science, 325 Church Street, Toronto, Canada
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Climate Change: First the bad news, then the good - the Will Howard Memorial Lecture
Date: 18th April, 7:30 pm
Venue: Emmett Lecture Theatre, Trinity College, Dublin 2
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Cap and Share Presentation - Cap and Share Ireland with the Trinity College Young Greens
Date: Monday 14th April, 18:00
Venue: Trinity College Arts Block 2041 b (Ui Chadhain Theatre), Dublin 2
Presentation followed by discussion.

Beating the Bust: Free Public Lecture and Discussion - A Green Week Event in DIT Bolton St
Date: Friday 10th April, 5:30 pm
Venue: Bolton Street DIT, Dublin 2
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Convergence 13: Post Carbon Cities, Transition Towns and Eco-Villages
Date: 3rd-7th April
Venue: Cultivate Centre for Sustainability, Essex St, Temple Bar, Dublin 2, and the Village, Cloughjordan, Co. Tipperary
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Ideas to Meet the Carbon Challenge - 'Bio Char' (part of the Convergence Symposium) - Bruce Darrell
Date: Saturday 5th April, 14:00-15:30
Venue: Cultivate Centre for Sustainability, Essex St, Temple Bar, Dublin 2
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National Frameworks to Underpin Carbon Reduction (part of the Convergence Symposium) - Oisín Coghlan, David Korowicz and Tim Helweg Larson
Date: Sunday 6th April, 11:15-12:45
Venue: Cultivate Centre for Sustainability, Essex St, Temple Bar, Dublin 2
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Skilling Up For Powerdown (part of the Convergence Symposium) - Davie Philip
Date: Sunday 6th April, 11:15-12:45
Venue: Cultivate Centre for Sustainability, Essex St, Temple Bar, Dublin 2
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Positive Energy - Creative Community Responses to Peak Oil and Climate Change - Findhorn Foundation Easter Conference
Date: Saturday 22nd March -Friday 28th March
Venue: Findhorn Foundation Ecovillage, Scotland.
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Is there a way out of Boom and Bust economics? - Fred Harrison
Date: Tuesday 11th March
Venue: Robert Emmet Theatre, Trinity College, Dublin.
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Public Meeting: How thinking about the climate crisis needs to change - chaired by Emer O'Siochru
Date: Evening, Friday 18th January 2008, 7.30-9.30 pm
Venue: St John's Church, Totnes, Devon.
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Feasta Energy and Climate Group - Strategy Meeting
Date: Evening, Friday 18th - afternoon, Sunday 20th January, 2008
Venue: Schumacher College, Totnes, Devon.
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climate(at)feasta.org

Community Powerdown Course: a ten week course
Date: Tuesdays from 9th Oct to 11th Dec , 7.30-9.30pm
Venue: Cultivate Centre, Dublin
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Feasta Annual General Meeting
Date: 24 November 2007, 11.30am - 1pm
Venue: ENFO offices, 17 St. Andrew's Street, Dublin 2.
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'Bringing about Change': Feasta seminar
Date: 13 November 2007, 11am-2pm
Venue: ENFO, 17 St. Andrew's Street, Dublin 2.
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Feasta Lecture 2007: Climate Solutions - Peter Barnes, author of Capitalism 3.0.
Date: November 13, 7:30 pm
Venue: Emmet Theatre, the Arts Block, Trinity College.
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Seeing Systems: a short course on applying systems thinking
Date: Thursdays 1st and 8th November, 7-9.30pm
Venue: Cultivate Centre, Dublin
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The Downside of Up: a short FEASTA course - David Korowicz
Date: Tuesdays 25th Sept & 2nd Oct, 7.30-9.30pm
Venue: Cultivate Centre, Dublin
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Peak Oil: The End of Economic Growth? - Professor Charles A. Hall
Date: 7.30pm, Wednesday, September 19th
Venue: Edmund Burke Theatre, Trinity College, Dublin
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Feasta Members' Weekend
Date: Date: Friday evening, 17th August to Sunday, 19th August
Venue: Venue: Woodbrook House, Bunclody, Co. Wexford, as part of the Irish Green Gathering.
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Creating a Virtuous Circle - Danny Day, founder and president of EPRIDA
Date: Friday, 27th July, 13:45 for 14:00.
Venue: Teagasc Ashdown Food Research Centre.
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Feasta Energy and Climate Group - Public meeting
Date: Friday, 27th July, 7.30 pm, sharp.
Venue: Central Hotel, Exchequer Street, Dublin 2.
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Feasta Energy and Climate Group - 2nd Annual Meeting
Date: Evening, Friday 27th - afternoon, Sunday 29th July, 2007
Venue: Glencree Reconciliation Centre, Co. Wicklow, Ireland
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"Clean Coal" - Carbon Capture and Storage - Prof. Colin E. Snape and Dr Sujatha Raman
Date: Wednesday 4th July - 7.30pm
Venue: G30 Lecture Theatre, Arts Centre, University of Nottingham, UK.
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Climate Change, Oil and Gas Depletion - Paul Mobbs, Brian Davey and Seamus Garvey (chair)
Date: Wednesday 6th June - 7.30pm
Venue: The Mechanics Institute, 3 North Sherwood Street (nr junction with Shakespeare Street), Nottingham, UK.
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Irish Doctors' Environmental Association AGM and Public Meeting 2007
Date: Fri 23 Feb
Venue: Tailors Hall, Back Lane, Dublin 8 (near Christ Church cathedral)
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"Peak Oil and Climate Change: What is to be Done?" - Richard Douthwaite
Date: Wednesday, February 7 at 7.30 p.m
Venue: O' Cadhain Theatre, Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin
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''The Future's not what it used to be'' - David Korowicz
Date: Wednesday 31st January from 10-4am (talk at 2.30pm)
Venue: National Environmental Groups Showcase, Buswells Hotel, Dublin 2
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Feasta's Annual Planning Day, 2007
Date: 10am -4 pm, January 20, 2007
Venue: 161, Lower Rathmines Road, Dublin 6
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Feasta Lecture 2006 "Making well-being, not growth, the prime political target" - Nic Marks, head of the Centre for Well-being at the New Economics Foundation, London.
Date: 7.30pm on December 6, 2006
Venue: Swift Theatre in the Arts Building, Trinity College, Dublin
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Workshop on Community Currencies - John Rogers.
Date: Friday, December 1st 2006.
Venue: 24, Northbrook Road, Dublin 6
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Life After Oil - Breaking the Habit - David Fleming, Ron Oxburgh, Michael Meacher and Richard Heinberg
Date: November 12-24, 2006
Venue: Schumacher College, The Old Postern, Dartington, Devon TQ9 6EA, UK
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Money, democracy and human rights - Caroline Whyte
This seminar was part of the Swedish Human Rights Forum (MR-Dagarna)
Date: November 23, 2006
Venue: Malmö Högskola, Malmö, Sweden
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Feasta Discussion Evening - Bruce Darrell
An informal monthly gathering open to all members.
Date: 7:30 to 10:00, Tuesday, November 7th, 2006
Venue: Cultivate Centre, Temple Bar, Dublin
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Joined Up Thinking and Sustainability - Davie Philip
6 evenings of presentation and discussion, which explored the issues of Money, Growth, Climate and Oil, Energy, Food, & Community
Date: Wednesday nights, September 13 - October 18th, 2006
Venue: Cultivate Centre, Temple Bar, Dublin
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Feasta Discussion Evening - Bruce Darrell
An informal monthly gathering open to all members.
Date: 7:30 to 10:00, Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006
Venue: Library Bar, Central Hotel, Exchequer St. Dublin 2
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Understanding the Economics of Sustainable Development
A six week course of individual lectures
1. The Economic Challenge of Sustainability - Richard Douthwaite
Date: 19.30 - 21.30, Tuesday, September 26th, 2006

2. Stopping the Debt Driver - why reforming the way our money is created holds the key to halting unsustainable growth - Alistair McConnachie
Date: 19.30 - 21.30, Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006

3. The Economic Implications of Climate Change and Peak Oil - Oisin Coghlan and Gerard O'Neil
Date: 19.30 - 21.30, Tuesday, October 10th, 2006

4. An introduction to Environmental and Ecological Economic thinkers and theories - Tom Campbell and Patrick Marren
Date: 19.30 - 21.30, Tuesday, October 17th, 2006

5. Costless money, costly credit and the coming first world debt crisis - Anne Pettifor
Date: 19.30 - 21.30, Tuesday, October 24th, 2006

6. Global Commons: Your Inheritance - John Jopling
Date: 19.30 - 21.30, Tuesday, October 31st, 2006
Venue: Cultivate Centre, Temple Bar, Dublin
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The Ecology of Money - course given by Richard Douthwaite
Date: Friday 7 - Sunday 9 July 2006
Venue: Monkton Wyld Court, Charmouth, Bridport, Dorset, UK
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Peak Oil: Business Threats and Opportunities- conference held by ASPO
Date: Wednesday May 31st 2006 9.30am - 2.00pm (inclusive of lunch)
Venue: Maryborough Hotel and Spa, Douglas, Cork City
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Peak Opportunity - Food, Energy and Community - talk by Graham Strauts
Date: Thursday 25th May 2006, 8 pm
Venue: KDYS Killarney Youth Centre, next to the Franciscan Friary, in the centre of Killarney
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"What Lies Ahead - How will we heat our Homes and Businesses in an Uncertain Energy Future" - seminar organised by Rathcline Sustainable Projects Group
Date: Friday 28th April 2006, 9am - 5pm
Venue: The Longford Arms Hotel, Longford
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Convergence - 11th Sustainable Living Festival - "Learning to Live with Less Fossil Fuel"
Date: Wednesday, 19th -Sunday, 23rd April 2006
Venue: Cultivate, 15-19 Essex Street West, Old City Temple Bar, Dublin 8
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Roundtable Seminar on Climate Change and Development - organised by Kimmage Development Studies Centre and Friends of the Earth
Date: Thursday 20th April 2006, 9am - 12:30pm
Venue: Mount Clare Hotel, Merrion Square, Dublin 2
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Lean Energy: A Grand Strategy for the Future of Energy - talk by David Fleming
Date: Saturday 22nd April 2006, 2pm
Venue: KDYS Killarney Youth Centre, next to the Franciscan Friary, in the centre of Killarney
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The Global Energy Picture - Public Seminar
Date: Wednesday, 5th April 2006, 7.30 pm
Venue: The Mansion House, Dawson Street, Dublin 2
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Ireland in the Second Half of the Age of Oil - talk by Dr. Colin Campbell
Date: Friday 24th March 2006, 7.30 pm
Venue: KDYS Killarney Youth Centre, next to the Franciscan Friary, in the centre of Killarney
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UN climate conference - Annie Segrue (representing Feasta)
Date: November 28 to December 9 2005
Venue: Montreal
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Feasta Lecture 2005 "How To Live Well Without Carbon -Decouple Life Satisfaction from Economic Growth, as well as Economy from the Environment" - Roger Levett
Date: Monday November 21 2005 - 7.30 pm
Venue: Davenport Hotel,at Merrion Square,Dublin 2
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Feasta Workshop "Planning for the Future now - Building Sustainable Local Communities" - Roger Levett and Dr Kevin Leyden
Date: Tuesday November 22, 2005, 9.30 am - 2.30 pm
Venue: Mont Clare Hotel, Clare Street, Dublin 2
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Sustainable Energy in Irish Transport Seminar - Roger Levett and Dr Kevin Leyden
Date: 23 November 2005
Venue: Roganstown House & Country Club
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Conference - Energy Prices and Ireland's Future
Date: Wednesday 12 October 2005
Venue: Cultivate, Temple Bar, Dublin
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Feasta Members Weekend
Date: October 7-9 2005
Venue: Nano Nagle Centre, Nr Mallow, Co Cork

Toolkit for Sustainability Course: Exploring the root causes of unsustainability and potential solutions- Davie Philip/font>
Date: 10 weeks from October 18 2005
Venue: Cultivate Centre, Temple Bar, Dublin
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Conference: Food security in an energy-scarce world
Date: June 23-25 2005
Venue: University College Dublin
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Sustainable Community Workshops
Date: May 25 2005
Venue: Airfield Trust
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Community Learning Toolkit: Exploring the root causes of unsustainability and potential solutions- Davie Philip
Date: 10 weeks from February 22 2005
Venue: Cultivate Centre, Temple Bar, Dublin
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Community Learning Toolkit: Exploring the root causes of unsustainability and potential solutions- Davie Philip
Date: 10 weeks from 26 November 2004
Venue: Central Hotel, 15 Exchequer Street, Dublin 2, Ireland
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2004 Feasta Lecture "Resource Wars - or a Fair Future?" - Wolfgang Sachs
Date: 18 November 2004
Venue: Swift Theatre, Arts Building, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
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Feasta Members Weekend 2004
Date: 24-26 September 2004
Venue: Dingle Harbour Lodge, Dingle, Co.Kerry, Ireland

The Irish Renewable Energy Summit 2004
Date: Tuesday 28th September 2004
Venue: 2004, Royal Hospital, Kilmainham, Dublin
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Conference: Debt, Climate and Global Justice
Date: Wednesday 29 April 2004
Venue: Sustainable Living Centre, SS Michael and John’s,15 – 19 Essex Street West, Old City Temple Bar, Dublin 8
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The Little Earth Show
Date: Tuesday, January 27th, and the 3rd, 10th and 17th of February 2004
Venue: Donegal's Highland Radio (broadcast)
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FEASTA Presentation - Before The Wells Run Dry- Richard Douthwaite and Michael Layden
Date: December 12 2003
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Feasta Lecture 2003 "Designing a Truly Democratic Economy " - Marjorie Kelly
Date: 3-4 November 2003
Venue: Dublin and Belfast
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Lecture: "Building a Sustainable Economy with Renewable Energy" - Dr Hermann Scheer
Date: October 23 2003
Venue: Dublin Institute of Technology, Bolton Street, Dublin 1
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Conference: "Land: The Claim of the Community" - Stan Thekaekara
Date: October 9-10 2003
Venue: Tara Towers Hotel, Booterstown, Dublin
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Feasta Lecture 2002 "PEOPLE FIRST - Justice in a Global Economy" - Stan Thekaekara
Date: October 8-10 2002
Venue: Dublin, Galway and Cork
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Conference: 'Ireland's Transition to Renewable Energy'
Date: October 30 to November 2 2002
Venue: Tipperary Institute, Thurles, Co Tipperary
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Conference: 'So that was Johannesburg, Now what?'
Date: 21 September 2002
Venue: Dublin
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Seminar: 'Strengthening the role of the Irish Higher Education community in support of sustainable development''
Date: 28 November 2001
Venue: The Development Studies Centre, Kimmage Manor, Dublin
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Feasta Lecture 2001 "The Lean Economy: a Vision of Civility for a World in Trouble" - David Fleming
Date: 30-31 October 2001
Venue: WWT, Castle Espie
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Feasta Lecture 2000 "The Civilising of Global Society" - David Korten
Date: July 4 2000
Venue: Trinity College Dublin
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'The Last Debate on Earth : Turning Problems into Solutions'
Date: June 25 2000
Venue: Castle Espie
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Workshop: 'Bringing together sustainable agriculture with sustainable economic development.' - Liam Egerton
Date: March 6 2000
Venue: Dublin Food Co-op
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Convergence 00
Date: April 22-May 1 2000
Venue: Temple Bar, Dublin
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Conference: 'Energy, Money and Growth'
Date: February 19-20 2000
Venue: Goldsmith Hall, Pearse Street, Dublin
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The Barataria Project
Date: May 1999
Venue: Soesterberg, The Netherlands
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Feasta Lecture 1999 "Uneconomic Growth in Theory and in Fact" - Herman Daly
Date: April 26 1999
Venue: Mother Redcaps, Christ Church, Back Lane, Dublin
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Financing Sustainable Communities - Feasta and IEVIN (the Irish Eco-Village Information Network)
Meetings with Triodas, the Credo Fund and the Irish League of Credit Unions, on financing sustainable communities
Date: January 8 and April 1 1999
Venue: Enfo, Dublin

The launch of FEASTA, the Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability
Date: October 28 1998
Venue: Mother Redcaps, Christ Church, Back Lane, Dublin
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