Davie Philip
@sust-davie.bsky.social
Community coach/ facilitator based in rural Ireland. Interested in cooperative and community-led responses to the mess we are in.
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Treat Lough Derg like a bin, and it will show you what that looks like.
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
Ella McSweeney: Lough Derg is drifting towards the same fate as Lough Neagh
Lough Derg has been so reshaped by pollution that its original character is almost impossible to discern
www.irishtimes.com
October 26, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Treat Lough Derg like a bin, and it will show you what that looks like.
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
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What do health and poverty, colonialism and climate change, farming and medicine have in common?
Check out the film screening and then chat with myself and Rupa Marya after - Sunday 16th November in Cork (early start, 12.30)
corkfilmfest.org/events/farmi...
Check out the film screening and then chat with myself and Rupa Marya after - Sunday 16th November in Cork (early start, 12.30)
corkfilmfest.org/events/farmi...
October 22, 2025 at 3:38 PM
What do health and poverty, colonialism and climate change, farming and medicine have in common?
Check out the film screening and then chat with myself and Rupa Marya after - Sunday 16th November in Cork (early start, 12.30)
corkfilmfest.org/events/farmi...
Check out the film screening and then chat with myself and Rupa Marya after - Sunday 16th November in Cork (early start, 12.30)
corkfilmfest.org/events/farmi...
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Check out this brilliant new short film from the #IncredibleEdible team - What if we had the Right to Grow?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6R5...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6R5...
What if we had the Right to Grow?
Up and down the country public land is being left unloved, costing our local authorities money to care for and giving nothing back to the community in return. Community groups like Incredible Edible…
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October 11, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Check out this brilliant new short film from the #IncredibleEdible team - What if we had the Right to Grow?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6R5...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6R5...
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"The eyes of future generations are on [us], silently urging us to act bravely and quickly [...] to save them from a collapsed biosphere.
Will we rise to the moment and earn the right to be regarded as 'good ancestors'?"
Crucial question, crucial book.
*Read it.*
Will we rise to the moment and earn the right to be regarded as 'good ancestors'?"
Crucial question, crucial book.
*Read it.*
October 9, 2025 at 3:37 PM
"The eyes of future generations are on [us], silently urging us to act bravely and quickly [...] to save them from a collapsed biosphere.
Will we rise to the moment and earn the right to be regarded as 'good ancestors'?"
Crucial question, crucial book.
*Read it.*
Will we rise to the moment and earn the right to be regarded as 'good ancestors'?"
Crucial question, crucial book.
*Read it.*
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🔥The Amazon is burning. The world’s lungs are on the brink of collapse. The EU wants to pour fuel on the fire with the EU-Mercosur trade deal — but we can still put a STOP on it! Tell your Minister & MEPs to reject the EU-Mercosur deal www.environmentalpillar.ie/stopeumercos... #StopEUMercosur
Take action: Stop the climate-wrecking EU-Mercosur Trade Deal - The Environmental Pillar
The EU-Mercosur trade agreement will benefit a handful of big corporations while driving deforestation, the climate crisis and exposing small-scale farmers to unfair competition. Join our call and say...
www.environmentalpillar.ie
October 8, 2025 at 8:24 AM
🔥The Amazon is burning. The world’s lungs are on the brink of collapse. The EU wants to pour fuel on the fire with the EU-Mercosur trade deal — but we can still put a STOP on it! Tell your Minister & MEPs to reject the EU-Mercosur deal www.environmentalpillar.ie/stopeumercos... #StopEUMercosur
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Feeding Ourselves newsletter out now!
Local Food Symposium Trinity Oct 30th
School Food Coalition
Global Green at Electric Picnic
Talamh Beo at the Ploughing, the Picnic, Talamh Óg, methane matters & Palestine Solidarity
Féile na Úll (applefest) Cloughjordan 20th Sept.
mailchi.mp/83a5d40559e0...
Local Food Symposium Trinity Oct 30th
School Food Coalition
Global Green at Electric Picnic
Talamh Beo at the Ploughing, the Picnic, Talamh Óg, methane matters & Palestine Solidarity
Féile na Úll (applefest) Cloughjordan 20th Sept.
mailchi.mp/83a5d40559e0...
September 15, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Feeding Ourselves newsletter out now!
Local Food Symposium Trinity Oct 30th
School Food Coalition
Global Green at Electric Picnic
Talamh Beo at the Ploughing, the Picnic, Talamh Óg, methane matters & Palestine Solidarity
Féile na Úll (applefest) Cloughjordan 20th Sept.
mailchi.mp/83a5d40559e0...
Local Food Symposium Trinity Oct 30th
School Food Coalition
Global Green at Electric Picnic
Talamh Beo at the Ploughing, the Picnic, Talamh Óg, methane matters & Palestine Solidarity
Féile na Úll (applefest) Cloughjordan 20th Sept.
mailchi.mp/83a5d40559e0...
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Almost 180,000 people have already stood up for the rights of nature & our collective right to a healthy environment in Europe.
Can we get to 200,000 by end of today? 🙌
Can we get to 200,000 by end of today? 🙌
Just 1 day left to speak up for nature! Across Europe, our forests are thinning, our rivers are drying, and our wildlife is vanishing. Now the European Commission wants to weaken the laws that protect them. Tell them to keep their #HandsOffNature. Speak up now: environmentalpillar.ie/hands-off-na...
September 10, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Almost 180,000 people have already stood up for the rights of nature & our collective right to a healthy environment in Europe.
Can we get to 200,000 by end of today? 🙌
Can we get to 200,000 by end of today? 🙌
Really enjoyed this conversation. We need more voices like John @thinkorswim.bsky.social highlighting honestly where we are at, where we can go and how we might get there. His book The Lie Of The Land has just arrived today so looking forward to reading 👏👏👏
www.newstalk.com/podcasts/hig...
www.newstalk.com/podcasts/hig...
John Gibbons on ‘The Lie of the Land’ | Newstalk
John Gibbons is an Environmental Journalist and Commentator who is releasing a book called ‘The...
www.newstalk.com
September 8, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Really enjoyed this conversation. We need more voices like John @thinkorswim.bsky.social highlighting honestly where we are at, where we can go and how we might get there. His book The Lie Of The Land has just arrived today so looking forward to reading 👏👏👏
www.newstalk.com/podcasts/hig...
www.newstalk.com/podcasts/hig...
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Pod of today's extended interview with @seanmoncrieff.bsky.social on NewsTalk to discuss THE LIE OF THE LAND is now online
www.newstalk.com/podcasts/hig...
www.newstalk.com/podcasts/hig...
John Gibbons on ‘The Lie of the Land’ | Newstalk
John Gibbons is an Environmental Journalist and Commentator who is releasing a book called ‘The...
www.newstalk.com
September 8, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Pod of today's extended interview with @seanmoncrieff.bsky.social on NewsTalk to discuss THE LIE OF THE LAND is now online
www.newstalk.com/podcasts/hig...
www.newstalk.com/podcasts/hig...
Important - and easy to add your voice!
Just a couple of days left to speak up for nature
The European Commission wants to roll back vital environmental protections – and they’re asking for your opinion.
Let them understand nature needs more help than ever #HandsOffNature
Please send your message:
swanireland.ie/take-action/...
The European Commission wants to roll back vital environmental protections – and they’re asking for your opinion.
Let them understand nature needs more help than ever #HandsOffNature
Please send your message:
swanireland.ie/take-action/...
September 8, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Important - and easy to add your voice!
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Just a couple of days left to speak up for nature
The European Commission wants to roll back vital environmental protections – and they’re asking for your opinion.
Let them understand nature needs more help than ever #HandsOffNature
Please send your message:
swanireland.ie/take-action/...
The European Commission wants to roll back vital environmental protections – and they’re asking for your opinion.
Let them understand nature needs more help than ever #HandsOffNature
Please send your message:
swanireland.ie/take-action/...
September 8, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Just a couple of days left to speak up for nature
The European Commission wants to roll back vital environmental protections – and they’re asking for your opinion.
Let them understand nature needs more help than ever #HandsOffNature
Please send your message:
swanireland.ie/take-action/...
The European Commission wants to roll back vital environmental protections – and they’re asking for your opinion.
Let them understand nature needs more help than ever #HandsOffNature
Please send your message:
swanireland.ie/take-action/...
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New Banksy is fucking nail on the head 🔨 👏
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
September 8, 2025 at 2:46 PM
New Banksy is fucking nail on the head 🔨 👏
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
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Great article from @hannahdaly.ie on the shameful proposal to lower Ireland's climate ambition
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
Why ‘no additional warming’ is a dangerous climate loophole
Carbon budgets should be sent back to the climate council with clear instructions to reassess them against Paris commitments
www.irishtimes.com
September 4, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Great article from @hannahdaly.ie on the shameful proposal to lower Ireland's climate ambition
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
“Far from being a distraction from decarbonisation, strategic adaptation can act as a catalyst for it, transforming climate breakdown from an abstract threat to a lived and shared reality.”
"The biggest problem with communicating climate breakdown is that it’s so difficult to make tangible."
A strategy beginning in #climate adaptation promises exactly that. It can fix the intangibility of climate breakdown. Read more 👇
www.resilience.org/stories/2025...
A strategy beginning in #climate adaptation promises exactly that. It can fix the intangibility of climate breakdown. Read more 👇
www.resilience.org/stories/2025...
Adapting to climate decline
We must adapt to the reality of climate breakdown so that we are ready for disasters. Because if we are not ready, they will be much worse.
www.resilience.org
August 2, 2025 at 1:56 PM
“Far from being a distraction from decarbonisation, strategic adaptation can act as a catalyst for it, transforming climate breakdown from an abstract threat to a lived and shared reality.”
🔴 URGENT message from UAWC
| Israeli Forces Attack UAWC’s Seed Bank Multiplication Unit in Hebron
Just moments ago, Israeli occupation forces launched a military assault on the Multiplication Unit of UAWC Seed Bank in the Hebron area, using bulldozers!
| Israeli Forces Attack UAWC’s Seed Bank Multiplication Unit in Hebron
Just moments ago, Israeli occupation forces launched a military assault on the Multiplication Unit of UAWC Seed Bank in the Hebron area, using bulldozers!
July 31, 2025 at 10:13 AM
🔴 URGENT message from UAWC
| Israeli Forces Attack UAWC’s Seed Bank Multiplication Unit in Hebron
Just moments ago, Israeli occupation forces launched a military assault on the Multiplication Unit of UAWC Seed Bank in the Hebron area, using bulldozers!
| Israeli Forces Attack UAWC’s Seed Bank Multiplication Unit in Hebron
Just moments ago, Israeli occupation forces launched a military assault on the Multiplication Unit of UAWC Seed Bank in the Hebron area, using bulldozers!
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Useful info on the illegal settlements and Ireland's investments
www.thejournal.ie/ireland-weal...
www.thejournal.ie/ireland-weal...
Irish sovereign wealth fund stops investing in two more companies linked to Israeli settlements
However, it continued to invest in another four.
www.thejournal.ie
July 19, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Useful info on the illegal settlements and Ireland's investments
www.thejournal.ie/ireland-weal...
www.thejournal.ie/ireland-weal...
Really enjoyed this conversation with Manda and Diarmuid
We’re on the edge of a cliff and the way out is THROUGH the obfuscations & extractive values of predatory #capitalism TO authenticity, integrity and finding language for what our #souls yearn to be
accidentalgods.life/dancing-the-
#AccidentalGods #Podcast
#InnerWarrior
#SpiritualWarrior
#Warrior
accidentalgods.life/dancing-the-
#AccidentalGods #Podcast
#InnerWarrior
#SpiritualWarrior
#Warrior
Dancing the Path of the Inner Warrior with Diarmuid Lyng of Wild Irish Retreats
How can we find a way through the obfuscations and extractive values and downright lies of predatory capitalism. Through to authenticity, and integrity and finding language for how we can be who we r...
accidentalgods.life
July 16, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Really enjoyed this conversation with Manda and Diarmuid
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Incoming! An amazing crew for the Aida refugee camp Bethlehem - 37 folks - dancers, musicians, speakers and footballers - bringing a show around Ireland and ending in #cloughjordan. A special night! Book here - www.eventbrite.ie/e/palestinia... @ipsc.bsky.social
July 1, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Incoming! An amazing crew for the Aida refugee camp Bethlehem - 37 folks - dancers, musicians, speakers and footballers - bringing a show around Ireland and ending in #cloughjordan. A special night! Book here - www.eventbrite.ie/e/palestinia... @ipsc.bsky.social
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1/ Today, the Environmental Pillar, Solar Ireland & Wind Energy Ireland joined forces to call for urgent Govt action to align Ireland’s renewables roll-out with nature protection
@envpillar.bsky.social @solarireland.bsky.social @windenergyireland.bsky.social
www.friendsoftheearth.ie/news/renewab...
@envpillar.bsky.social @solarireland.bsky.social @windenergyireland.bsky.social
www.friendsoftheearth.ie/news/renewab...
Renewable industry and environmental NGOs join forces to call for urgent Government action to align critical renewables roll-out with nature protection | Friends of the Earth
Wind Energy Ireland and Solar Ireland, Ireland’s main renewable energy industry associations, have joined forces with Ireland’s leading environmental network, the Environmental Pillar, to call …
www.friendsoftheearth.ie
June 26, 2025 at 3:17 PM
1/ Today, the Environmental Pillar, Solar Ireland & Wind Energy Ireland joined forces to call for urgent Govt action to align Ireland’s renewables roll-out with nature protection
@envpillar.bsky.social @solarireland.bsky.social @windenergyireland.bsky.social
www.friendsoftheearth.ie/news/renewab...
@envpillar.bsky.social @solarireland.bsky.social @windenergyireland.bsky.social
www.friendsoftheearth.ie/news/renewab...
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“Hard to escape the feeling that the world is rapidly descending into a new dark Age of Idiocracy – one dominated by deranged politicians, predatory corporations & billionaire narcissists who have disengaged from reality”
My take in today’s Business Post.
www.businesspost.ie/analysis-opi...
My take in today’s Business Post.
www.businesspost.ie/analysis-opi...
June 22, 2025 at 10:40 AM
“Hard to escape the feeling that the world is rapidly descending into a new dark Age of Idiocracy – one dominated by deranged politicians, predatory corporations & billionaire narcissists who have disengaged from reality”
My take in today’s Business Post.
www.businesspost.ie/analysis-opi...
My take in today’s Business Post.
www.businesspost.ie/analysis-opi...
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So on the menu today we have BAU, a little more BAU or lots more BAU...
What will this do for our water quality, particularly nitrates pollution in the S and SE, caused primarily by dairy? How is this fair for all farmers? How is this in any way aligned with the environmental reality we face?
What will this do for our water quality, particularly nitrates pollution in the S and SE, caused primarily by dairy? How is this fair for all farmers? How is this in any way aligned with the environmental reality we face?
June 9, 2025 at 8:08 AM
So on the menu today we have BAU, a little more BAU or lots more BAU...
What will this do for our water quality, particularly nitrates pollution in the S and SE, caused primarily by dairy? How is this fair for all farmers? How is this in any way aligned with the environmental reality we face?
What will this do for our water quality, particularly nitrates pollution in the S and SE, caused primarily by dairy? How is this fair for all farmers? How is this in any way aligned with the environmental reality we face?
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BREAKING 🇵🇸 Israeli occupation forces have illegally boarded the Madleen, the Freedom Flotilla humanitarian mission to Gaza, and kidnapped its crew, including Greta Thunberg, Rima Has and Thiago Avila.
June 9, 2025 at 7:12 AM
BREAKING 🇵🇸 Israeli occupation forces have illegally boarded the Madleen, the Freedom Flotilla humanitarian mission to Gaza, and kidnapped its crew, including Greta Thunberg, Rima Has and Thiago Avila.
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Friends of the Earth International, alongside allies such as La Via Campesina, has signed this important unified call to confront famine in Gaza
Please add on your organisation’s signature and amplify
#DiplomaticConvoyNow
bit.ly/4kfZQkA
Please add on your organisation’s signature and amplify
#DiplomaticConvoyNow
bit.ly/4kfZQkA
Open for signature | UNIFIED CALL TO CONFRONT FAMINE IN GAZA: LAUNCH THE DIPLOMATIC HUMANITARIAN CONVOY NOW
UNIFIED CALL TO CONFRONT FAMINE IN GAZA: LAUNCH THE DIPLOMATIC HUMANITARIAN CONVOY NOW
12th May 2025
Palestinian civil society, joined by humanitarian and human rights organisations worldwide, issues...
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May 16, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Friends of the Earth International, alongside allies such as La Via Campesina, has signed this important unified call to confront famine in Gaza
Please add on your organisation’s signature and amplify
#DiplomaticConvoyNow
bit.ly/4kfZQkA
Please add on your organisation’s signature and amplify
#DiplomaticConvoyNow
bit.ly/4kfZQkA
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🌱 Has the EU's farming policy lost its green edge?
✂️ As the #CAP gets pruned, are environmental goals being trimmed too?
@natashafoote.bsky.social digs into the details: What’s left of the #GreenDeal in the new CAP revisions?
🔗 www.arc2020.eu/pruning-the-...
#CAPStrategicPlans #CAPreform
✂️ As the #CAP gets pruned, are environmental goals being trimmed too?
@natashafoote.bsky.social digs into the details: What’s left of the #GreenDeal in the new CAP revisions?
🔗 www.arc2020.eu/pruning-the-...
#CAPStrategicPlans #CAPreform
Pruning the EU’s Farming Policy: Have CAP's Green Shoots Survived the Shears? | Agricultural and Rural Convention
The EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is once again being trimmed down to size, with the Commission reaching for the shears in an attempt to cut back what it sees as an overgrown subsidy programme...
www.arc2020.eu
May 21, 2025 at 2:38 PM
🌱 Has the EU's farming policy lost its green edge?
✂️ As the #CAP gets pruned, are environmental goals being trimmed too?
@natashafoote.bsky.social digs into the details: What’s left of the #GreenDeal in the new CAP revisions?
🔗 www.arc2020.eu/pruning-the-...
#CAPStrategicPlans #CAPreform
✂️ As the #CAP gets pruned, are environmental goals being trimmed too?
@natashafoote.bsky.social digs into the details: What’s left of the #GreenDeal in the new CAP revisions?
🔗 www.arc2020.eu/pruning-the-...
#CAPStrategicPlans #CAPreform
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"Nine member states — Belgium, Finland, France, Ireland, Luxembourg, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden — had publicly backed the Netherlands' proposal ahead of Tuesday's gathering of foreign ministers."
www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
EU to review its trade and cooperation with Israel over Gaza offensive
A majority of the European Union's foreign ministers backed a Dutch proposal to review the bloc's ties with Israel over its actions in Gaza. #EuropeNews
www.euronews.com
May 20, 2025 at 11:23 PM
"Nine member states — Belgium, Finland, France, Ireland, Luxembourg, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden — had publicly backed the Netherlands' proposal ahead of Tuesday's gathering of foreign ministers."
www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...