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‘There is little point in climate research if it continues to be ignored’
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Paul R Price, a climate research fellow at Dublin City University, is concerned that society continues to be trapped in inaction rather than climate action.
Paul R Price’s first degree was in geology, which he was awarded from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. But it was another 27 years before he returned to education for a master’s in sustainable development, graduating from Dublin Institute of Technology with first-class honours in 2013.
In the interim, Price had spent more than two decades working as a professional carpenter. He even started a quarterly journal of traditional carpentry.
Interior design parners Becky Russell and Róisín Lafferty
In the world of interior design, creative pairings can be more than the sum of their parts. “Sometimes it’s as simple as having someone throw fresh eyes on a project,” says Becky Russell, interior designer and creative partner to Róisín Lafferty of Kingston Lafferty Design. “We come at things from a different perspective but we’re usually quite aligned about what the end result should be.”
Russell and Lafferty met in 2004. Both were interior design students at the Dublin Institute of Technology. “Within the first week of our degree, we knew we were going to be friends,” Lafferty says. After college, they stayed in touch. Lafferty set up KLD in 2010. Three years later, Russell came on board.
In a house on Dame Street, 18 people are living under one roof in 21st-century Dublin. Some of them are frontline workers and since the coronavirus pandemic started it was inevitable that if one person in the house got infected, everyone else would.
In a house on Dame Street, 18 people are living under one roof in 21st-century Dublin. Some of them are frontline workers and since the coronavirus pandemic started it was inevitable that if one person in the house got infected, everyone else would.