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- Question: What’s the Connection Between Climate Change and Brexit? February 2, 2021
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- Democracy is not a fragile flower still it needs cultivating. January 20, 2021
- We Need to Talk About (Irish) Agriculture January 16, 2021
- Spotlight on Climate Bill (Ireland) January 9, 2021
- Renault Zoe 2020 – Report on EV In General Use January 4, 2021
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Why listen to Bill Gates on How to Avoid a Climate Disaster!
Bill Gates is not a climate scientist. He’s not a politician. He has a “lot” of money and investments that could be seen as conflicts of interest. Why on earth should we listen to him? We have been talking about … Continue reading
Posted in Carbon Footprint, Climate Change, COP26, Electric Vehicles, EV
Tagged Bill GAtes, How to avoid a climate disaster
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Have We lost the Covid19 Plot? A Case Study.
My conclusion is that unless we do something different now, we may lose this battle and be battling the pandemic for at least another year! I summarize a report on South Korea’s experiences and how we might learn from them. Continue reading
Posted in Coronavirus, Covid19, lockdown, Pandemic
Tagged Covid19 Variants, ECDC Risk Analysis, South Korea Covid19 Case Study
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My Personal Experience Highlights How Brexit has thrown a Spanner into Smooth Running 21C Businesses
I would never knowingly have placed an order for a relatively high value item knowing it was sourced from the UK post Brexit. And my experience is clearly one of at least hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of disrupted transactions. Every one of them is someone’s nightmare. However, I doubt very much that it will cost Messrs Gove and Johnson any lost sleep. And down the line it probably won’t lose them any votes either. Continue reading
Question: What’s the Connection Between Climate Change and Brexit?
Easy, both are man-made problems, they are both slow burners and have been looming for years and they will both cause unpredictable problems that will run and run. Of course, climate change will be many orders of magnitude greater impact, … Continue reading
Are We Using Technology to Get us out out of the Covid19 Mess?
Here in Ireland we are recovering from Lockdown 3, case load is reducing but the hospitals and entire health service is incredibly overloaded. There is real concern that new variants may be more serious, transmissible etc, and not covered by … Continue reading
Posted in Coronavirus, Covid19, Digital Transformation, lockdown, Pandemic, Personal Technology, Travel
Tagged Mandatory quarantine, tracking by phone
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Democracy is not a fragile flower still it needs cultivating.
Well it’s been one hell of a ride! I remember talking to a good friend and colleague almost exactly four years ago. He lives in the greater DC area and does a lot of government business, so I listened hard. … Continue reading
We Need to Talk About (Irish) Agriculture
This morning I listened to a radio clip about the Irish peat industry. Peat harvested from local bogs has been used for centuries for cooking and heating in Ireland. Throughout the 20th century, peat was prized as a source of … Continue reading
Spotlight on Climate Bill (Ireland)
The Irish government published it’s first climate change bill in 2015. This was superseded by the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2020. This post records my initial review of the combined bills. I couldn’t find a … Continue reading
Renault Zoe 2020 – Report on EV In General Use
I ordered a new Zoe Iconic R110 50Kw last December. We were extremely lucky to be able to test drive the only new-model car in the country at that time, so we had hands on experience pre ordering. I decided … Continue reading
Posted in Carbon Footprint, Electric Vehicles, EV, Renault Zoe
Tagged Electric Vehicle, EV, Renault Zoe, Renault Zoe Review
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Remember we still need to save the world. Let’s re-energize and refocus Climate Actions in 2021.
We need to energise climate actions in a highly effective way, engaging ordinary people that causes and enables governments to make more courageous longer term decisions. Continue reading
Posted in Carbon Footprint, Climate Change, COP26
Tagged Carbon Footprint, Climate Change Actions
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