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Adopted Leitrim woman Liz (as in she has adopted Leitrim!) on her blog has been encouraging people to buy Christmas gifts in their local towns which is a great idea. I would also encourage people to buy locally made or hand-made products as much as possible. Little gifts can also have a large impact and…
Safe Water For All
ByMiriam
Safe and clean drinking water and sanitation is a human right essential to the full enjoyment of life and all other human rights, the United Nations General Assembly declared in July this year, voicing deep concern that almost 900 million people worldwide do not have access to clean water. Reading through this report blew my…
Blog Action Day 09: Climate Action
ByMiriam
Today is Blog Action Day and this year – yip, apparently it’s a yearly event where bloggers are asked to all write about a particular social issue in order to help raise awareness, I must have missed it last year – I digress, this year it’s to highlight climate change and encourage people to increase…
Lá Fhéile Bhríde, St Bridget’s Day
ByMiriam
Unfortunately the photos from this old post have been lost Happy Bridget’s Day I have been happily hibernating since Solstice, very much enjoying the “cut wood, carry water” lifestyle of the old days, although it is more like carry turf-briquettes, collect water in my neck of the woods. The really severe weather which started before…
Size does matter!
ByMiriam
I suscribe to the “small living journal” which is an American online magazine devoted to the idea of living in small economical spaces – the complete opposite of the Celtic Tiger sort of dwellings which have turned our Irish countryside into disturbia! I particularly liked this article on Guerrilla Housing. It appeals to my ideas…
Post to Twitter?
ByMiriam
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