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Environmental Protection Agency - Ireland's statutory body for the balanced and sustainable protection and management of the environment. Organisation history, workings, educational and technical material, notes on licencing and interactive water quality maps.
Conservation Volunteers Ireland - An organisation of volunteers to work on conservation projects in Ireland, from part-days to weeks away. With information on membership and activities, schedules and contact details.
Friends of the Irish Environment - A network of environmentally-concerned groups and individuals, offering detailed news, campaign information and archives on its work.
Crann - An organisation which works in the area of trees, especially re. the replanting of Ireland with broadleaf trees. Describes basics of group and work, tree-sponsorship scheme and allows online joining; form for tree sponsorship available to print.
Wildwatch (The Irish Wildlife Trust) - Formerly the Irish Wildlife Federation, this is a leading non-governmental conservation and environmental education and campaigning group. Site offers information on their structure, positions, joining up and affiliated bodies.
Irish Peatland Conservation Council - One of Ireland's leading environmental campaigning groups, with information on bogs, press releases, fundraising, education and contacts.
GRIAN, Greenhouse Ireland Action Network - This climate change awareness and solutions-promoting network offer news, details of their work, how to help, press releases and a newsletter.
Irish Seedsavers Association - This conservation organisation dedicated to the preservation of Ireland's special and disappearing varieties of fruit, grains and vegetables, provides background information, details of projects, membership and sponsorship notes, and event and contact data.
Just Forests - This voluntary group, concerned with sustainable development and global deforestation outlines its mission, involvement with the Forest Stewardship Council, campaigns and exhbitions, and provides listings of timber suppliers and links.
Native Woodland Trust - This group, which aims to protect remaining native woodlands, provides details about itself, its various campaigns, news and articles.
The Tree Council of Ireland - The national umbrella group for organisations concerned with trees in Ireland, providing details of its work, members and publications, and contact information.
Appropriate Roads Group - Group dedicated to the overturning of a decision to build a dual carriageway between Cahir and Clonmel.
Zero Waste Alliance Ireland - Outline of purpose, FAQ, activity summary, press releases and news on current environmental issues from this campaigning group.
His ignorance is encyclopedic - Abba Eban Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up. -- Anon When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. -- Hunter S. Thompson Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. -- Ayn Rand The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life. -- Andrew Brown Environmental Groups Work expands to fill the time available. -- PARKINSON'S LAW I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different. -- Tony Bennett, 1995 "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Environmental Groups Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them. -- Richard Strauss, on conducting In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from. -- Peter F. Drucker To love another person is to help them love God. -- Søren Kierkegaard You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play. -- WARREN BEATTY Environmental Groups Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not even talking about the programs). -- Nicholas Negroponte For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me. -- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer. -- Charles Caleb Colton Environmental Groups Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday. -- Woody Allen After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations. -- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Environmental Groups Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. -- Soren Kierkegaard Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality. -- Theodor Reik All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. -- Edgar Allan Poe Environmental Groups 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. -- ee cummings "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot- proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. -- Abraham Lincoln Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die. -- Thomas Carlyle Environmental Groups Who the hell wants to hear actors talk? - H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street. -- Virginia Woolf "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Environmental Groups "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does. -- Groucho Marx Environmental Groups Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another. -- H. L. Mencken "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult. -- Anonymous Environmental Groups Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. -- Virginia Woolf All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost; -- J.R.R. Tolkein There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come. -- Victor Hugo The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have. -- William Hazlitt "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Environmental Groups All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. - Arthur Schopenhauer What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Environmental Groups "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this bre Maybe this world is another planet's hell. -- Aldous Huxley Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. -- T. S. Eliot Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of hers. -- Anonymous Environmental Groups We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us. -- Mme de Staël We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us. -- Mme de Staël It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion. - Albert Einstein Environmental Groups "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens. -- Benjamin Disraeli The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. -- Clarence Darrow Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist. -- Thomas Carlyle Environmental Groups Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. -- Albert Einstein Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich! -- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Environmental Groups Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue. -- Hermione Gingold Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but th blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. -- John Ciardi My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher. - Socrates Environmental Groups Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc jockey is not allowed to talk. -- Fran Lebowitz "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Environmental Groups Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) It's never too late to have a happy childhood. -- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come. -- Victor Hugo May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Environmental Groups "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available. -- Jim Beggs Does anal retentive have a hyphen? -- Seen on a t-shirt Environmental Groups When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite. - Sir Winston Churchill "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it. -- Colin Wilson "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Environmental Groups The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does not stop until you get into the office. -- Robert Frost Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are. -- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Environmental Groups
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