How would this still be a university?

This is an abhorrent decision. Rooted in a total ignorance of the conditions faced in these old inner-city flat complexes. I'm just out of a meeting with Oliver Bond residents and there's a real sense of hopelessness. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dubl...

Public records about North Cork Creameries - a company that is a "leading supplier of butter to the internationally renowned Kerrygold brand" - paint a disquieting picture of how regulators are performing www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

“But if GDP is a partial & deeply distorted measure of economic activity, then policy built around it will also be distorted, & we will get very strange economic outcomes. In fact, we are.” #PostGrowth #Degrowth 10% of GDP is fiction www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/03...

Dublin currently has ZERO cycle lanes under construction. You'd think the climate crisis, collapsing AMOC, fossil fuel supply crisis, obesity epidemic, traffic jams or appalling road death increases didn't exist. No urgency. Just subsidies for ... yep... more fossil fuels 😞

Degrowth makes it to the @oireachtasnews.bsky.social thanks to Minister Jack Chambers!

Thanks very much for the hugely appreciated words of support Pádraic. We continue to stand united on our shared goal of ensuring clean, healthy waters for present and future generations. #waterqualitymatters @whittledaway.bsky.social

Our discussion about the possibility of global food system collapse, and what needs to happen to avert it. www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...

Is the YIMBY movement doomed? www.npr.org/sections/pla...

New episode of 'Becoming a post-growth planner' with @sofiagreaves.bsky.social . Looking back to what happened since our talk in 2023 (episode #16). And to what comes next in Oslo. "Spatial planning is in many ways generating problems for itself to solve, right?"📻 open.spotify.com/episode/6iRo...

The IEA’s “Sheltering from Oil Shocks” pamphlet reads like a Degrowth manual

"Any plausible agenda to drive down the cost of housing is going to require things like social housing, rent controls, and some mechanism to keep Blackstone and other private equity giants from buying up all the new housing and holding it empty until prices rise." www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

New data from EPA: 'Nitrogen concentrations in rivers increased by 10% in 2025 ... Nitrogen levels in south‑eastern half of country are too high to support good ecological health in water bodies ... Primary source of nitrogen in Irish rivers is agriculture' www.epa.ie/publications...

“This is the law of capitalism; the exponential bulldozing of one’s own limits. This is a world where exploitation passes for innovation, where daylight robbery passes for business.” #PostCapitalism #Degrowth #PostGrowth Welcome to Hell - @racheldonald.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/planetcr...

“Why is it that these apparently liberal democracies in the West are such incredibly violent warmongers?”

The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism by Clara E. Mattei #degrowth #socialism #decolonisation

The #UN is beginning to say it out loud: An economy designed to serve the ultra-rich is incompatible with planetary survival. Climate crisis and inequality are the same problem. #degrowth #inequality #socialjustice #tellthetruth #taxtherich

Can degrowth save the climate? – podcast

Today in Groningen: 'The Cost of Growth | Doc Screening + After-talk' 📆 www.rug.nl/let/onze-fac... #CriticalApproaches26 @postgrowthplan.bsky.social @muhalefetserhi.bsky.social

The EU is betting on deregulation - here's why that won’t work: neweconomics.org/2026/02/the-...

Small rejoinder to the cohort of people who confidently tell you Ireland should turn to nuclear power. After inventing solar and wind, it just doesn’t make economic sense, and it takes too long to implement.

Clara Mattei: capitalism is not natural - it’s enforced "Right now we are in a situation in which the violence of the economy has reached a very very obscene peak. We have 12 people in the world owning more than the bottom four billion people." #degrowth #socialism

And so it begins General Scheme for the Dublin Airport (Passenger Capacity) Bill 2026 #PassengerCap @thinkorswim.bsky.social @hannahdaly.ie @autofac.bsky.social

So, as expected, the government cannot unilaterally remove the @dublinairport.bsky.social passenger cap.

“Some are saying we’ll have a 10% GDP loss at between 3C and 4C degrees [of global heating], but the physical climate scientists are saying the economy and society will cease to function as we know it. That’s a big mismatch,” Abrams said www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Ignorance is power. www.science.org/content/arti...

The UK is a bizarre country where its seen as just fine & normal for people to sleep in tents in the freezing cold. Temperatures to hit -4 this week But the idea Billionaires could be less rich. Not poor, not struggling, just a bit less rich, this is seen as extreme and radical

"Landlords and real estate developers, for example, do not have an interest in an “abundance” of housing because it would collapse the price of the commodity they wish to sell for a profit" jacobin.com/2025/08/klei...

"The Celtic Tiger did not fail because we dreamed too big. It failed because we stopped planning. Because we forgot that growth is a tool, not a trophy. Because when the music was loudest, we lost the discipline that got us there in the first place."

The EU Mercosur Trade Agreement will benefit a handful of big corporations while driving deforestation, the climate crisis & exposing small-scale farmers to unfair competition. Join our call & say no to this toxic trade deal. Email your ministers & MEPs now www.environmentalpillar.ie/stopeumercos...

If you or I put a private sewer discharging waste into one of our rivers or lakes, there'd be total *hell* to pay. But a whole industry doesn't just get away with constantly polluting, the government makes a priority of fighting for their right to continue. The result is our rivers are dying.

“Simplification” sounds harmless - until you realise its a Trojan horse to weaken critical environmental laws that protect our air, water and Nature itself. These laws protect you. Let’s protect them back. Tell EU leaders: #HandsOffNature @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu @jessikaroswall.ec.europa.eu

The government presents its demand for a new nitrates derogation (pollution permit) in Brussels as a demand of the Irish public. This counterpoint argues that it is actually being demanded by a subsection of the agriculture industry, and is in conflict with a genuine public interest: clean water

Excellent piece by Brian Caulfield. We keep falling further and further behind our European counterparts when it comes to sustainable transport solutions.

The Accelerating Infrastructure Taskforce Report mentions "Judicial Review" 112 times. "Public Participation" = 0. Its full on 'Judicial Review Derangement Syndrome'

@iandunt.bsky.social @dorianlynskey.bsky.social really enjoyed your pod on GDP/growth. FYI, Haberl et al. (2020) reviewed all studies on the ‘Green Growth’ (decoupling) and concluded there was no empirical evidence that it was effective iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Beyond the 1.5°C pre-industrial threshold for 12 months in a row www.euronews.com/green/2024/0... We need #degrowth, a #DonutEconomy & #SystemChange to #Conviviality in a #CaringEconomy of #Partnerism within #planetboundaries, please! 🙏 #TaxTheRich #MakePollutersPay #cooltheclimate #CapitalismKills

Here's the table of contents of The Story of Capital:

Germany: 104m2 (1,120 sqft) new build family apartment, daylight on 3 sides, cross ventilation, proper balcony 12.5m2 (135 sqft) for €2,500/month ..this is sustainable urban living that people need & want, at density to support public transport & facilities..not small dark rooms on long corridors

“Let me start with main headline that "everything is being judicially reviewed" by "objectors" who are "blocking" housing & infrastructure This is an outright lie Data shows that members of the public are on track to take 40% fewer JRs in 2025 compared to 2024” www.linkedin.com/pulse/money-...

When asking questions becomes the problem, something’s gone very wrong. @kfmradio.bsky.social www.kfmradio.com/news/localne...

How likely is an #AMOC shutdown? Here's our latest study based on 768 runs with 38 standard climate models (the CMIP6 models). Note these do not include any meltwater from Greenland mass loss, so might underestimate the risk a bit. 2/2 iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

This tallies with my data, and is why I publish it. The rise in litigation around 2020 was due to the defunct SHD process and to a lesser extent the Heather Hill High Court judgment in 2019 (notably the 2022 Supreme Court ruling was not followed by an increase)

If I had failed a responsibility to deliver housing and infrastructure for decades, I too might try to build a narrative blaming my failure on third parties (courts, lawyers, citizens, The Goblin Prince Under The Mountain). But I see no reason, bar abject power worship, for anyone to repeat it.

'the current heavy loading of agricultural nutrients will have to stop. Lakes and rivers need to be given the chance to breathe, to reoxygenate their habitats so that life can return.' www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ou...

“Min Patrick O’Donovan described those using judicial reviews against infrastructure projects as “nasty”..we need to get to a situation where the abuse of the courts and the abuse of objections & abuse of nimbyism has to be set aside” www.irishtimes.com/ireland/hous...

I'm excited to announce this new study, published in The Lancet Planetary Health, which explores public support for degrowth and ecosocialist transformation. The findings are quite surprising. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Has the Government transposed the ADR clause in RED III? ADR would avoid litigation by resolving disputes at an early stage - something that's quite topical at the moment. Make up your own mind based on this PQ response www.kildarestreet.com/wrans/?id=20...