The green economy can make a significant contribution to Irelands economy by creating employment and export opportunities in areas such as renewable energy, energy efficiency and

The green economy can make a significant contribution to Irelands economy by creating employment and export opportunities in areas such as renewable energy, energy efficiency and consultancy, waste management, recovery and recycling, and water and wastewater treatment. The High-Level Group on Green Enterprise was mandated to identify areas where Ireland could succeed in the green economy and was charged with identifying key road blockages for the green economy and ways to overcome these. Jonathan Healy will set out a strategy for Ireland to capture the oppertunities identified in the report.

About the speaker: Jonathan Healy is an environmental economist educated at University College Dublin (UCD) where he received BA, MSc and PhD degrees in economics. He is currently a Senior Policy Analyst in the National Competitiveness, Sustainability and Infrastructure Department in Forfás with responsibility for environmental and infrastructural policy and a Research Associate of the Policy Institute, Trinity College Dublin (TCD).

A conversation from June 2021 with award-winning economist and scholar Tim Jackson and Garrison Institute co-founder Jonathan F. P. Rose in conversation. The discussion focused on imagining a

A conversation from June 2021 with award-winning economist and scholar Tim Jackson and Garrison Institute co-founder Jonathan F. P. Rose in conversation. The discussion focused on imagining a world where the shifts in worldviews and systems changes we need for a viable future, redress the underlying cause of climate change, social inequity and financial instability: capitalism itself. Jackson explores that post-capitalist future in his forthcoming book, Post Growth: Life After Capitalism.

The Other Inconvenient Truth: How Agriculture is Changing the Face of Our Planet by Jonathan Foley, director of the Institute on the

The Other Inconvenient Truth: How Agriculture is Changing the Face of Our Planet by Jonathan Foley, director of the Institute on the Environment (IonE) at the University of the Minnesota and leader of  the IonE’s Global Landscapes Initiative. Foley’s work focuses on complex global environmental systems and their interactions with human societies.

We typically think of climate change as the biggest environmental issue we face today. But maybe it's not? In this presentation, Jonathan Foley shows how agriculture and land use are maybe a bigger culprit in the global environment, and could grow even larger as we look to feed over 9 billion people in the future.