It was well attended. I look forward to the next debate.

I believe the council say they have not yet found a (publicly owned) site suitable for placing the bottle banks.

I’m wondering what your party can really do to change conduct in benefit of the environment?

The load-down: Here at NUIG, with some kind of policy on recycling, has ignored numerous requests on recycling bins in the kitchens of the institute I’m working in. So we just throw away everything as landfill. Imagine the cost of this. I’m now wondering what happens in the rest of NUIG and NUI, the same?

Some questions:
What can be done?
How can this be exposed?
Is there some kind of law against this?
Who can be hold resolvable?
Can you do anything?
Do you want to do anything?

Lisbon, Lisbon, who cares, this is a real issue under your noses. 12 000+ students and staff can add SOME input to recycling.

Please treat this a confidential until there can be some plan of action.

Regards,

Regards
Emanuela Russo

Exibition:
Voices from the field – Views of the farmers at the frontline of the food crisis
An exhibition of voices and photos from Mozambique opens in Galway City Museum on Saturday 7th of February at 2:00 p.m.

This exhibition of photos and interviews focuses on the impact of the food crisis on small farmers in Mozambique and their responses to it. In the past year the food crisis has become extremely serious, particularly for peasants, who bear the brunt of drastic increases in the price of staple foods. The UN report on the Millennium Development Goals in 2008 estimated that instead of reducing hunger, the current global food system has pushed the number of hungry people in the world to over 1 billion, up from 840 million.
The exhibition illustrates the everyday lives of small farmers affected by the crisis and highlights the solutions they propose to improve their condition.
Many governments believe in another Green Revolution for Africa, attempting to solve the problem of hunger by industrialising agriculture, liberalising markets and granting trans-national agribusinesses unfettered access to food production. The peasants suggest an alternative approach – Food Sovereignty. This is the right of all peoples to define their own agricultural or food policy, and gives small farmers and consumers more of a choice in the way their food is produced and sold. The farmers we interviewed stress the importance of giving priority to local agricultural production in order to feed the people, and emphasize that access to local resources such as land, water and seeds is the key to overcoming this difficult phase and building a more sustainable future.
The photos and interviews were produced by Emanuela Russo and Fergal Anderson in November 2008, during a journey to Mozambique funded by the Simon Cumbers Media Challenge Fund. The exhibition will run for three weeks. For more information please contact: manu.russo@gmail.com or fergalanderson@gmail.com.

So please join the facebook group and invite your friends. We could really make a difference here.

You can also follow progress and catch up on the full story here: http://www.simonberry.net

Thanks

Simon