Roche’s Rants
Here you will find a selection of news article that I have chosen as a means of keeping the significance of the natural world relevant to my work as a furniture-maker. The content also stimulates some great conversation in the workshop.
International calls for sports clubs to reject Texaco funding
Just Forests Press Release. Monday 14 December 2020 Texaco trying to use Irish sports clubs to Greenwash company’s disastrous environmental record and to hide role in fueling the climate crisis Texaco knows that your sports club is cash-strapped. So...
COVID- 19: A Wake Up Call For A New Economic Order – Our Spring of Hope or winter of despair
After COVID-19: Business-as-usual and “normal” life is not an option. By Tom Roche 7 April 2020 Despite the life-changing coronavirus pandemic that has gripped Ireland, and the economic and social challenges we face in order to contain and minimise its deadly...
Get Big Oil Out Of Children’s Art
RE: Adjudication of 66th Texaco Children’s Art Competition Dear Adjudicators, In light of national and global concerns regarding the negative health and biodiversity impacts of the fossil fuel industry I am writing to ask you to please reconsider your scheduled...
Finucane Bench
The Aengus & Jack Finucane Memorial Bench. I am delighted to announce that myself and a very dear associate of mine Knut Klimmek have been awarded the contract to design, build and install the Aengus and Jack Finucane Memorial Bench by Concern Worldwide....
China leads illegal logging in Solomon Islands..new report shows
SYDNEY (Reuters) - The South Pacific nation of the Solomon Islands is felling its tropical forests at nearly 20 times a sustainable rate, according to research by an environmental group published on Thursday, driven by insatiable Chinese demand for its lumber. Export...
WWF report reveals staggering extent of human impact on planet
Gland/Geneva, 30 October 2018 - Humanity and the way we feed, fuel and finance our societies and economies is pushing nature and the services that power and sustain us to the brink, according to WWF’s Living Planet Report 2018. The report, released today, presents a...