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Category Archives: Adaptation
Awareness into action? Manchester BME groups talk climate change
A group of around 30, pretty diverse, people attended an event today hoping to raise awareness about the impact of climate change on BME communities in Manchester. The event kicked off with an introduction by the chair of the Manchester … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptation, Event reports, Interview
Tagged Atiha Chaudry, climate, environment, Manchester BME Network
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Tell your councillors! – Free workshop on “local health and well-being in a changing #climate.” #Manchester Mon 4th March
Free training, thanks to the Environment Agency and Climate UK. (All text below from here). You can find the members of Manchester City Council’s Health Scrutiny Committee here. If you are a Manchester resident and any of them is one … Continue reading
The Onion: “2012 Was Once Considered Hottest Year On Record, Man In 2024 Remembers Wistfully” #Manchester #acretinfuture
The American satirical newspaper “The Onion” is essential reading. Here’s a recent article (forgive them the ozone confusion, it’s still funny).
Manchester’s Climate Vulnerable – An Interview with Atiha Chaudry
Whilst it’s easy to think that all those people ‘really vulnerable’ to climate change live in far away places, the truth is they don’t. They live in cities great and small all over the world. And there are some living … Continue reading
Newsflash: @SirRichardLeese answers questions on #Manchester #climate #adaptation
Sir Richard Leese, Leader of Manchester City Council, has broken his silence on the question of climate adaptation. In an email to a MCFly reader, he has stated that the newly-created Local Nature Partnership will make the difference between earlier … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptation, AGMA
Tagged adaptation, carbon literacy, Cooler, Ecocities, Richard Leese
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Colour me amazed: Australian weather-mappers need new colours for new peak temperatures #deeppurple #toast
Oscar Wilde said that “A Map Of The World Without Utopia Is Not Worth Glancing At.” Perhaps a twenty-first century Wilde would say that “a map of the world without dystopia is not worth colouring in…” Record heat sees Australia … Continue reading
#Manchester City Council leader Richard Leese on #climate adaptation? Maybe…
Richard Leese, the leader of Manchester City Council, has a blog. The latest post on it makes mention of adaptation to climate change. We’ve posted the following question. Let’s see what happens… Welcome back, at the end of the blog … Continue reading
Event Report: “Women Governing Forests : A History of Absence, the Impact of Presence”
MCFly volunteer Judith Emanuel went along to the inaugural lecture of Professor Bina Agawarl at the University of Manchester and had this to report. Manchester’s environmental community has a wonderful new asset, Bina Agarwal Professor of Development Economics and Environment … Continue reading
Posted in academia, Adaptation, Democratic deficit, Event reports
Tagged Bina Agarwal
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Newsflash: “Real Food. Wythenshawe” gets £1m for 5 year project
Real Food Wythenshawe, “an ambitious five-year programme to engage and excite the people of Wythenshawe in growing and cooking fresh, sustainable food” has received funding of £1,000,000 from the BIG Lottery Fund. That money, which will be matched by sponsoring … Continue reading
Food to get more expensive thanks to climate change
Those people at the Sustainable Consumption Institute (see our interview with the head honcho here) have sent out the press release below to do with new research they’ve done entitled “What’s Cooking’ Adapation and Mitigation in the UK Food System,” … Continue reading
