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“What would make a difference is developing mass transport and substantially reducing car ownership; closing coal mines and ending oil and gas exploration; promoting decentralised and community-managed renewable energy systems; doing away with industrial-scale monoculture farming; and supporting smallholder and Indigenous-led agroecological systems that have been shown to enhance nutrition, biodiversity and quality of life. […]

Eugene A. Cernan, the last man to walk on the moon and Commander for the Apollo 17 mission in 1974, has died.  He traveled into space three times: as Pilot of Gemini 9A in June 1966, as Lunar Module Pilot of Apollo 10 in May 1969, and as Commander of Apollo 17 in December 1972, […]

Sad to hear of the passing of George Michael on Christmas day. Another one gone too young. His album ‘Older’ is great, as is of course this poptastic gem which takes me back to college in Maynooth: George Michael (Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou), singer and songwriter, born 25 June 1963; died 25 December 2016

Well, it’s been just over a year, and Terry has yet to re-appear in a Windle Poons manner. I think I have to accept that Death actually collected him, empty lifetimer in one hand, scythe in the other, and brought him off to see the next chapter. His daughter, Rhianna, has a lovely remembrance piece […]

It’s been more than 100 years since the world began observing International Women’s Day, and yet no country has achieved full gender equality. “It’s very sobering to realize that it’s 2016 and we don’t have that yet,” said Daniela Ligiero, Vice President of Girls and Women Strategy at the United Nations Foundation. Source: Gender equality? […]

Perfect metaphor for the ‘War on Terror’: Man tries to put out garbage fire by driving over it in a van loaded with ammunition via @markmackinnon

*blinks*