February 3, 2010

Support Fenor School

Fundraising at Fenor National School is prolific they raised lots of money (30K) at the annual sale of work at Christmas and are currently in negotiation to build a playground...so well done to our whole community. NEXT event is Ladies Fashion Swap Fri 5th Feb 7-9pm and Sat 10-3pm @ 'the Meeting Place' Tramore - old Quakers hall in between Vic pub & Banyan restaurant rules etc below

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January 20, 2010

Tuning in CBeebies in Ireland

Recently our CBeebies channel disappeared from our list of available channels on SKY, mainly we watch 'In the night garden' on it as its a soothing pre-bed time treat that can help to wind down the little ones. I left it for a few weeks and then remembered it needed to be fixed so thanks to boards.ie i found the fix pretty quickly and it was fool-proof just took 2 mins and we're back up and running thanks!

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January 4, 2010

current interests - now that spring is around the corner

Christmas is a good time to get going on reading for spring activities, a river cottage diary and website and online resource future forests have given me some inspriation and enthusiasm over the last few nights in our battle toward more self sufficiency..bring it on!

Roberts Solar DAB radio - not for use in Waterford

Unfortunately this Christmas my shopping was influenced by a review in the Irish Times on Roberts Solar DAB radio, thinking it would be a lovely environmentally friendly pressie. However there is no DAB coverage in my part of Ireland and as a colleague pointed out to me - many journalists or people in general feel that where they live i.e. Dublin in this case is the centre of the earth. Sure it might be rolled out in the future! suppose it might work well on holidays...lesson is take your time christmas shopping even online and don't forget to research newspaper recommendations yourself!

December 15, 2009

Future Internet day in Dublin, hosted by TSSG

On December 3rd the TSSG, WIT hosted the 2nd Annual Future Internet Forum Event in the Digital Hub.The focus of this year's event was Identity, Privacy, Security & Trust in the Future Internet. Given the magnitude of internet use, user needs and requirements and opportunity for crime, it proved to be a mixed event with much lively discussion.
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Minister Conor Lenihan T.D opened this years event, and the key note was given by Dr. Jacques Bus Head of Unit F5 DG-INFSO, European Commission, who provided findings on the recently published RISEPTIS report, titled 'Trust in the Information Society'. The panel session proved that research in Ireland is mature in many aspects, mainly technical, but the subsequent cluster session highlighted that often the weakest link in internet security is the 'user', education and awareness along with technical development will go a long way in ensuring that Irish citizens are not subjects of criminal activity.

December 14, 2009

Trust in the information society

RISEPTIS have published their report, the 'future scenarios' documented by Kieran here @ tssg make it particularly tangible to all walks of society from the tech-savvy to technophobes

Waterford Half marathon-done and dusted!

Myself and Una completed the Waterford Half marathon in 2hrs 6 mins which we were happy with, given our training schedule! well done to all it was great to have such a huge crowd and good weather, bring on those christmas bevvies and treats

December 7, 2009

Eggs, hens, children and Irish Future internet forum

Its been a long time since i've been blogging -from the title of this post you'll see i've been busy, we have 3 new hens, a 10 month old to add to our 4 and 2 yr old and i'm back to work. So all is good in the world whatever Brian Cowen does with the budget this week. I will give more details soon on hens and the joy of getting 2 eggs before leaving the house each morning.

July 18, 2008

Transition towns

A Transition Initiative is a community working together to look Peak Oil and Climate Change squarely in the eye and address this BIG question:

"for all those aspects of life that this community needs in order to sustain itself and thrive, how do we significantly increase resilience (to mitigate the effects of Peak Oil) and drastically reduce carbon emissions (to mitigate the effects of Climate Change)?"

The resulting coordinated range of projects across all these areas of life leads to a collectively designed energy descent pathway.

The community also recognises two crucial points:

* that we used immense amounts of creativity, ingenuity and adaptability on the way up the energy upslope, and that there's no reason for us not to do the same on the downslope
* if we collectively plan and act early enough there's every likelihood that we can create a way of living that's significantly more connected, more vibrant and more in touch with our environment than the oil-addicted treadmill that we find ourselves on today.

For more information please look at the Transition Towns WIKI.

There are a group of us in Tramore
that have started to start this intiative ...life evolves ..its time to become active

There are solutions emerging ..educate yourself about this - there are many resources out there including lots on youtube
If you would like to contact the Tramore Transition Initiative directly please email:
transition-town-tramore@googlegroups.com.

June 17, 2008

Bird tracking system available to public

The Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT) is a leading conservation organisation saving wetlands for wildlife and people across the world and its got a link for tracking geese, swans etc. iI found this link on the Friday Irish Times which we were still reading on Sunday eveing - value for money! and in particular interest was the Greenland Barnacle Goose where a school in Mayo was responsible for naming these birds - excellent use of technolgy, education and fun usage of the internet