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Climate Media Summary from 9 February 2011

This week's summary includes articles on the melting Arctic permafrost, the rapid global increase in the use of solar panels and the importance of controlling emissions of greenhouse gases other than carbon dioxide.

New thinking needed for farm investment rather than subsidisation

According to Teagasc, direct payments accounted for 143 per cent of farm incomes. This means that the average farm in Ireland is run at an operating loss. Yet there is a huge opportunity there. Unfortunately, agriculture is dominated by subsidies,…

Ending our Love Affair with More

Panel discussion including Richard Douthwaite at Ecobuild
Date and Time: Wednesday March 2, 11 am
Venue: ExCel, London Docklands, UK [...]

The Economics of Happiness – film screening followed by discussion

Cultivate, in association with FEASTA, Grow It Yourself, Transition Towns Ireland and Northern Ireland, Slow Food Ireland, Happenings, Green Works and the International Society for Ecology and Culture are presenting a special Dublin screening of The Economics of Happiness. [...]

Ellen Brown on the benefits of State Banks

Ellen Brown writes here about the indebted US states but her prescription also works for indebted eurozone member states. Just substitute ECB for the FED and you have it. …..So Who Will Save the States? Highlighting the immediacy of the local government budget crisis, The Wall Street Journal quoted Meredith Whitney, a banking analyst who [...]

George Monbiot on Housing Under-Occupancy

George Monbiot has an article in the Guardian about housing under-occupancy, drawing attention to two contradictory housing crises: under-supply of housing stock and under-occupancy of existing houses. The issue is surplus housing – the remarkable growth of space that people don’t need. Between 2003 and 2008 (the latest available figures), there was a 45% increase [...]

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