CEF Mail Archive: UCC Debate, Green Drinks & TED Video

UCC Debate Wed, Green Drinks, TED Videos etc.


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Dear Mr. Archive,
Please find following some notices including a debate on Wednesday at UCC, Green Drinks at the end of the month and a Seminar on Regional Government Reform. Links to the Cork TEDx talks which feature Michael Hobbs debating the merits of being a stakeholder versus the role of being a protestor. New horticulture course at Coláiste Stiofáin Naofa, EPA consultation on Fracking and see the You Tube on the development of a new gravity light.

Wed. 16^th January: Debate at UCC "Water, wave & wind power - a viable energy solution for Ireland?" 7.30pm at the Kane Building,                                      Room G01. Chaired by George Hook. Part of a series of debates are being organised by Future of Rural Energy in Europe
                                  (FREE) throughout colleges in Ireland including UL, NUIG, Queens University, Belfast and UCC.

Monday 21^st January: NEW REGIONAL GOVERNANCE: PERSPECTIVES AND CHALLENGES
                                   Renehan Hall, NUI Maynooth, 10.00-17.00

Wed. 30^th January: CEF Green Drinks at Tom Barry’s Pub, Barrack Street from 7pm.

Michael Hobbs TEDx Talk is just one of 7 videos created at part of the Cork TEDx event on 13^th October 2012 and is available at: http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/6607 or http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=qytxaESMh2g After perusing these new videos its worth having a look at the well chosen videos shown during the event:

Coláiste Stiofáin Naofa: Introduction to Horticulture Brochure

EPA Public Consultation on proposed Terms of Reference for a Programme of Research on Environmental Impacts of Unconventional Gas Exploration & Extraction.
A dedicated e-mail address, UGEEconsultation@epa.ie, has been set up to receive all submissions on the Terms of Reference document. Interested parties and individuals are invited to submit comments to the EPA using this e-mail address only. Deadline for submissions 8th March 2013

Gravity Light, You Tube Link – developed as an alternative to kerosene powered light in Africa, perhaps this can also have wider application here.

Best regards,

Bernie

Bernie Connolly
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Kilcolman
Enniskeane
Co. Cork

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