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• The Roaring ’20s – 2020s or 1920s?! How crazy is it?

  What on Earth is going on? That’s the refrain that’s been building to a crescendo over the past weeks. Lack of accountability seems endemic to authorities in Western nations where countries like USA, UK, Germany, who once purported to be the good guys, have let down all pretence and are incautiously decimating systems that people …
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• I’m a Revolution, Are you?

  With thanks to Joy Oladukun and Maxo Kream and other contributors. [Verse 1]Why is it the darkest nights always make the stars so bright?Why’s it take a sacrifice to say someone deserves a life?Why is it the smallest voice has to make the loudest noise?How long you gonna make the choice to see the fire …
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• More equitable alternative

  (Extract from Sharon Ní Chonchúir‘s article We ditched our desk jobs to spend more time in nature — here’s why in the Irish Examiner 6 September. Tom Butler of Ballin Temple, Nurney, Co Carlow: ‘I’ve paid a financial price, but I’m a nature guy.’ Picture: Michael O’Rourke Tom Butler from Ballin Temple in Carlow describes …
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• How To Not Take Things Personally

  Breathe. Think. Flow. We teach this simple model for living well, and it has become our go-to framework for running our own businesses and lives. The 3-step process emerged over years of noticing what worked for us as we researched a huge range of body-mind-spirit and elevated consciousness models, sharing our perspectives through books and …
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• Cosmic Vibes, Pizza, and the Earth Charter

  “That’s them, the swifts,” said Bernadette, my fellow Co. Carlow Environmental Network (CCEN) committee member, at the sound of the high-pitched call. We were standing in the An Gardin Beo courtyard after a CCEN community gathering about the Earth Charter. It was a beautiful June evening and we watched the breathtaking dance of the swifts …
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• Mother

  Without mothers we are nothing. We come from our mothers and we know that. (Sometimes even our mothers don’t know who the father is.) For the gift of life we should be grateful to our mothers every day. We are drawn to our mothers, even though we might argue with them. We start our existence …
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• Celebrating 25 Years of Positive Change

  “The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence – it is to act with yesterday’s logic.” Peter Drucker’s comment captures the need for system change that defines Astraea. When we stepped out of our old lives and into the unknown in 1999, we had a clear goal: To find balance between people, …
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• Private property should be abolished…

  Following below is Helena Sheehan’s speech to the Trinity College Dublin Philosophical Society debate on whether private property should be abolished. It carried the day. It is helpful in framing an awkward, ignored yet important cultural issue on the nature of property ownership and it’s impact on equity and justice in our legal systems. Dr …
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• Goodbye Superpower

  Although it was expected, it was a shock to wake up to the impending results of the Presidential election in the USA which prove again the primitive values of our world. America is considered by a majority of people to be the world leader since the Second World War, during it which it supported Germany …
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• Feast Upon The Earth Engages Everyone in Choosing Our Future

  Summer Inspiration At DLR Lexicon, Dublin The inspirational timescape Feast Upon The Earth has moved from Tullow to Dun Laoghaire’s Lexicon Library for the rest of the summer. The launch talk in July was “very engaging,” said Susan Lynch, senior executive librarian at Lexicon, who welcomed the timescape. “I don’t usually see so much participation …
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