Those who thought the failed Copenhagen climate talks last December were a diplomatic nadir, from which only recovery was possible, are in for a shock. Since then, efforts to refloat the talks have seen a lot of ballast thrown overboard — including most of the scientific underpinnings of a deal to protect the world from dangerous warming.

Jeff Rubin was the chief economist at CIBC World Markets for almost twenty years.

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Starving people in drought-stricken
west Africa are being forced to eat leaves and collect grain from ant
hills, say aid agencies, warning that 10 million people face starvation
across the region.

BP's oil disaster is partly the result of approaches to risk which lead us to believe we know more than we do.

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Wouldn't it be great to get advice directly from Herman Daly? It's no surprise that his speech to graduating public policy students contains wisdom for all of us.

Table of Contents ---- Introduction 2 --- Contents 3 --- The Well Fed Cafe by Marianne 4
a lookback at a cooperative cafe in Dublin ---- Magical Girl by Siobhan 7 ---- Feminist
DIY gig organising ---- We the Living by Ciara 12 --- abortion in lreland --- Pro Choice
Campaigning by Shonagh 13 ---- Irish Women in London 14 ---- personal abortion stories
Women on Web by Shonagh 17 ---- medical