Turning Earth

Are you fed up of greedy cunts wrecking the buzz? Me too. Have a listen to this first of two episodes on gold mining and the many problems wrapped up with it. Music provided by the not-gold-but-still-glittering Woven Skull, taken from their album The Lair of the Glowing Bantling: https://wovenskull.bandcamp.com/album/lair-of-the-glowing-bantling-3 Image drawn by Gareth Curtis.

Joined this time for the Joint Committee by Rachael from Not Here, Not Anywhere. NHNA are a campaign group organising against any and all new oil and gas infrastructure in Ireland and internationally. At the same time Fine Gael, the leaders of the minority government, are using technicalities to block bills that are passed by majority vote. Guess what bills they target? Workers rights, environment...

More moaning about things that are bad. Election ennui. Media nonsense-merchants. We've got the lot.

The first in our new, bare-bones series of current events and news analysis podcasts! Join Tommy and Eric having the chats about Extinction Rebellion, local elections, the notions of radicalism, the recent victory of the Waorani tribe in protecting their part of the Amazon from destruction aaaaaand loads more probably. BANTS NOT RANTS!

This time Eric and Tommy get deeper into the separation of humanity from the rest of nature. Tommy also talks to Lucy O'Hagan from Wild Awake about getting back in touch with our roots. As usual there's a decent amount of lefty belligerence. Bakin' n' snowflakin'. Music: Wild Rocket - Blowholes [ wildrocket.bandcamp.com/ ] Illustration: Gareth Curtis [ probablygareth@gmail.com ]

Food Sovereignty: The right of peoples to define their own food, agriculture, livestock and fisheries systems. This time Tommy and Eric have a good ramble about food, where we get it from, how it's produced, how we as a species have become separated from the life systems that sustain us. Tommy had a chat with Fergal Anderson from Talamh Beo and Food Sovereignty Ireland. Also includes some moaning...

Our second anniversary! Kind of. In this episode we give a run down of the the year 2018 with all it's highs and lows, we also got to catch up with some of the issues we missed out on covering throughout the year. Extinction, pollution, habitat loss, government corruption, corporate psychopathy, the death of the oceans. It can all be stopped, and it will be. The movement is growing. Music: Wild Ro...

For this episode on fossil fuels, Tommy had a chat with Richard Curtin and Aideen O'Dochartaigh from the campaign group Not Here Not Anywhere, who are resisting the construction of new oil and gas infrastructure here in Ireland. We discussed the danger of these proposed projects and what we can do to stop them. We brought up some scary problems in the last episode when we briefly discussed the UN...

"Question the authority of the authorities" - Fritz Schult In this episode we're discussing police, specifically the Irish police force An Garda Síochána. We're asking questions: Why do they exist? Who do they serve? How can we keep ourselves safe? This episode is dedicated to the memory of Fritz Schult, a resident of Erris, Co. Mayo and long time campaigner against the Shell Corrib gas project.

In this episode we're talking about water! And gently freaking out about how we're going to access it in the near future. We had nobody to interview this time so it's just Tommy and Eric ranting at each other for an hour. Contents: Ireland drought and water shortages, water charges, Bolivian water wars, neoliberalism, capitalism, the psychopathy of the super-rich, silly people doing silly things....

In our latest episode we focus on green space in Dublin City, as well as our usual rundown of the latest environmental news. Tommy met with Tony O'Rourke, a community activist from Bridgefoot St and Tony Lowth, a guerilla composter who set up the NCAD community garden to discuss parks, community gardens and their impact. Following this Eric and Tommy were joined by Michelle from Dublin Central Hou...

The month's episode focuses on greenwashing: greenwash noun The practice of promoting environmentally friendly programs to deflect attention from an organization's environmentally unfriendly or less savory activities: Interview with Pauric Fogarty of the Irish Wildlife Trust, discussing Bord Bia's Origin Green campaign. We also discuss the citizens assembly, NGO and public pushback against foolish...

This month we're yapping about climate change and flood resilience in the context of recent flooding in Donegal and Derry, we're wondering about the upcoming Citizen's Assembly on climate change and examining the events in Charlottesville, Virgina, and what the rise of white supremacy and organised racism means for us as environmentalists. We also have an interview with Sinead Mercier, a researche...

This episode covers: Shell Ireland, the continued oil and gas giveaway, fracking north of the border, Preston New Road anti-fracking protests, rural neglect, debunking the urban-rural divide, the Irish state and climate denial, and a new data centre in Anthenry. Including an interview with Niall Bakewell from Friends of the Earth NI. Featuring the track Rural Juror by Headless Kross, from the albu...

Fifth episode of environmental podcast Turning Earth. This episode focuses on Shell Petroleum and the egregious abuses they've been responsible for in Ireland, Nigeria and globally. Including an interview with Maura Harrington of Shell To Sea.

Two lads and a baby hanging out in the sitting room, talking about how scary and fucked up the world is. Recorded and edited in a rush of a January evening. CONTENTS:
 2016 carbon dioxide bonanza, 400 PPM, climate change denial and disinformation, Trump's cabinet, Fine Gael and climate inaction, government messing, Enda's platitudes, energy production, bogs and biomass, farms and forests, Ireland'...

We're talking about fracking, a dangerous method of unconventional gas extraction. Including interviews with Aisling Cowan from Friends of the Earth NI and No Fracking Northern Ireland and Terrence Conway of Shell To Sea.

In this episode we discuss the gold mining industry in Ireland, with a specific focus on Inishowen, where exploration licenses have been issued for. This leads to a broader consideration of the industry across the island and its environmental impact. Interviewees for this episode are: Toni Devine, an Inishowen resident and anti-mine campaigner; John Teeling, chair person of Connemara mining, who h...

This episode discusses the controversial Poolbeg Incinerator, a massive municipal waste incinerator being built next to Dublin port. Residents of the nearby suburbs of Ringsend, Sandymount and Irishtown have been campaigning for 18 years against the construction on the basis of potential health and ecological effects, coming up against the undemocratic arrangement of Dublin City Council in regards...