Michael McGovern
@micmcg.bsky.social
Paint, pencil, charcoal, camera, mandolin, button accordion, trad, Bach, the sea, the mountains, the woods, féileacáin, home grown food, #commongroundbray, climate science, biodiversity
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... and wasting time when you could be creating pictures with your new water colours.
August 16, 2025 at 6:30 PM
... and wasting time when you could be creating pictures with your new water colours.
Life ascending / Nick Lane:
brilliant but challenging book on the origins and development of life.
Other Minds / Peter Godfrey-Smith:
the (sometimes weird) minds of animals
Feral / George Monbiot:
highly readable book - a mixture of personal diary, ecology theory and rewilding
brilliant but challenging book on the origins and development of life.
Other Minds / Peter Godfrey-Smith:
the (sometimes weird) minds of animals
Feral / George Monbiot:
highly readable book - a mixture of personal diary, ecology theory and rewilding
March 30, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Life ascending / Nick Lane:
brilliant but challenging book on the origins and development of life.
Other Minds / Peter Godfrey-Smith:
the (sometimes weird) minds of animals
Feral / George Monbiot:
highly readable book - a mixture of personal diary, ecology theory and rewilding
brilliant but challenging book on the origins and development of life.
Other Minds / Peter Godfrey-Smith:
the (sometimes weird) minds of animals
Feral / George Monbiot:
highly readable book - a mixture of personal diary, ecology theory and rewilding
January 23, 2025 at 4:28 PM
We have our defences ready on the East coast
January 22, 2025 at 9:44 PM
We have our defences ready on the East coast
Maybe Carl is just an opportunist
January 14, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Maybe Carl is just an opportunist
Yes I agree we need climate justice, but unfortunately the Irish electorate don't agree and rejected the Greens and there's not much we can do about that in a democracy.
December 19, 2024 at 9:53 AM
Yes I agree we need climate justice, but unfortunately the Irish electorate don't agree and rejected the Greens and there's not much we can do about that in a democracy.
Agreed - Ireland is dragging her feet - but the 1.5 target is surely a global goal, whereas the climate neutrality goal is a national one. The electorate doesn't seem interested in applying the brakes before we reach the precipice but climate neutrality might be acceptable.
December 19, 2024 at 9:00 AM
Agreed - Ireland is dragging her feet - but the 1.5 target is surely a global goal, whereas the climate neutrality goal is a national one. The electorate doesn't seem interested in applying the brakes before we reach the precipice but climate neutrality might be acceptable.
Pity they closed the Harcourt Street line. It was well out of reach of the waves.
December 4, 2024 at 9:18 AM
Pity they closed the Harcourt Street line. It was well out of reach of the waves.