Articles from Sustainability Journal #2

Bursting Point

Sustainability lecturer Graham Strouts outlines how the world's growing population may lead to greater unsustainability in the long term.

Sustaining Hate

Social historian John Mulloy reports on a worrying trend of using environmental crises as an argument for restricting the free movement of people.

The Future of Money

Economist Richard Douthwaite documents the difficulties facing world economioes as a consequence of rising oil prices

Sliding Over the Edge - the Demise of the Irish Housing Market

Sheltering From the Storm - the Search for Sustainable Housing

Andy Wilson looks at housing in Ireland

Living with Less Oil and Gas

Geologist Colin Campbell describes the reality of fossil fuel depletion

Running on Empty - the Biofuel Controversy

Andy Wilson exposes the lies, myths and environmental destruction behind the agro-fuel industry

Roads to Nowhere

Green activist Lenny Antonelli argues that roads still have a place in sustainable transport infrastructure

Down the Pan - Flushing Away Ireland's Water Resources

Environmental Consultant Jack O'Sullivan puts forward proposals aimed at better management of our water resources

Not for Smoking

Teacher and Hemp Enthusiast Ann Longwell describes how hemp could become Ireland's most sustainable building material.

Going Nuts

Jacinta French and Paul McCormick go nuts.. and in the process explain how to cultivate cobnuts - 'potentially Ireland's most productive and sustainable source of protein'.

Getting Disconnected

Building giant electricity interconnectors across the Irish sea will not provide any greater degree of energy security for Ireland.

Sunny Days: Demistfiying Solar Heating

A detailed look at how best to utliise the solar resource at northern latitudes