Archive for the 'environment' Category
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A better view from above.
A good friend pointed me in the direction of an exciting cartography resource which is now online. OSI (Ordnance Survey Ireland) has just introduced a new service called Smart Maps where you can view detailed maps of the whole of Ireland. Zoom in and you get aerial photos. The great thing about this is we [...]
Published by itison on January 22nd, 2008 tagged environment, geography, links | Comment now »
Giant’s Ring – 08/01/08
Demonstration at The Giant’s Ring, Ballynahatty, Belfast on 8th January 2007. Newsclip via The Irish News (IN.TV) Note: I have re-uploaded this clip here as I could not properly embed the video from the www.in.tv site. I got under the bonnet and did some tinkering with the source code and it worked ok but I [...]
Published by itison on January 8th, 2008 tagged campaigns, environment, video | 3 Comments »
Eco Eye – Ireland’s Transport
Eco Eye : Series 5 / Episode 5 (February 2007) This episode of Eco Eye deals with issues surrounding Ireland’s transport problem. It deals with public transport and discusses solutions for the future and the question of sustainability of current plans. Also dealt with here are the environmental impacts of transport infrastructure, in particular Co2 [...]
Published by itison on February 1st, 2007 tagged environment, future, infrastructure, sustainability, transport, video | Comment now »
Primetime Special Report 25/11/04
This is the Primetime report from RTE in November 2004. There are twenty five minutes in this programme dealing with Tara and features some good interviews and background on the situation. There is also a head to head in the studio with Conor Newman, the respected archaeologist and Micheal Egan, of the NRA refereed by [...]