In this episode regular hosts Sinead Mercier, Lorna Bogue and John Barry are joined by special guests Orla Kelleher and Emer Slattery to discuss the connections between human rights and their abuses and issues of climate breakdown, a human rights approach to climate and ecological action and Climate Case Ireland.

G is for ... growing, land ownership and agrarian politics in Ireland, and farming ....amongst other things... This week regular pod hosts Saoirse McHugh, Sinead Mercier, Lorna Bogue and John Barry are joined by special guest Fergal Anderson from Talamh Beo to talk about growing food, awareness and alternative models and practices of land use and management, agriculture and how to support farmers and rural communities across the island of Ireland....

You can find out more about Talamh Beo here: http://www.talamhbeo.ie/ 

F is for film... and Fungi the Dolphin... listen in to hosts Saoirse McHugh, Sinead Mercier, Lorna Bogue and John Barry discuss Batman, the Jurassic Park series... and other films...and articles.....and ideas..... that come into their heads..that have something to do with the environment...... horse it inta ya!!

The exploitation of people and places for natural resources is the main topic of this episode.. looking at the ways global corporations seek out the extraction of 'cheap nature', especially in relation to fossil fuel resources from oil to fracked gas, and how communities have resisted this in Ireland and elsewhere..  we were joined by Dr Amanda Slevin, academic and activist, co-director of the Centre for Sustainability, Equality and Climate Action at Queen's University Belfast and Chair of Climate Coalition NI, and V'cenza Cirefice, PhD candidate at Galway University and anti-extractvist activist.... in conversation with regular ABCs podcast hosts Sinead Mercier, Saoirse McHugh and John Barry....enjoy.

In which we discuss the relationships between disability, climate breakdown, green politics and human rights... with regulars Sinead Mercier and Saoirse McHugh, joined by special guests Maria Ní Fhlatharta, Centre for Disability Law and Policy, NUI Galway, and Deirdre Ní Cheallachain, Policy officer for Irish Council for Civil Liberties

Join regulars Saoirse McHugh, Lorna Bogue, Sinead Mercier and John Barry, with special guest Dr. Patrick Bresnihan from Maynooth University for a discussion on the connections between capitalism and unsustainability, how green politics should be viewed as seeking to move societies beyond capitalism as well as carbon,...enjoy

Discussion of the recent Irish Climate Change Bill introduced by the coalition government in Dublin and the Climate Change Bill put before the Northern Ireland Assembly, with regulars Cllr Lorna Bogue, Sinéad Mercier and John Barry, and guests Seán McCabe and Dr. Andrew Jackson.

And we're off... this week's letter is A, where we discuss this new idea of the 'Anthropocene' or the age of the human  and how humanity is now a 'force of nature' on the planet (all humans??), and Agriculture - you can talk about a 'post-industrial' society but not a post-agricultural one .... enjoy