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2 unusual facts about Richard Douthwaite


Richard Douthwaite

He built concrete boats at a cooperative in Port Antonio, Jamaica in the early 1970s and was then government statistician in the British Caribbean colony of Montserrat for two years before moving to Ireland (near Westport) to write and campaign about climate and energy issues and local economic development.

He had also been a council member of Comhar, the Irish government's national sustainability council and a Fellow of the Post Carbon Institute.



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