Date for Your Diary: Weds 22nd May
Professor Kevin Anderson of the Tyndall Centre will be talking to the Economy Scrutiny Committee of Manchester City Council about climate change, steady state economics and so on. This is a crucial opportunity for you to see (and help!) democracy in action. Ish. The meeting is at 10am, at Manchester Town Hall. You do NOT need to book a ticket, be a Manchester rate payer or anything like that! More details to follow...Latest Manchester Climate Monthly!
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Green deal or no green deal: domestic retrofit questions answered
From the print edition of Manchester Climate Monthly (available here) Michael O’Doherty, Head of Climate Change: Buildings and Energy at Manchester City Council and, in his copious spare time, also Greater Manchester Housing Retrofit Programme Lead has kindly answered a … Continue reading
Good news – “Get Me Toasty” is not toast
Before we begin – you can book your free ticket for the Tuesday 17th April “Is Manchester City Council taking the right action on climate change?” question time event (with real live councillors from Labour and Lib Dems, and a … Continue reading
Posted in AGMA, Energy, GM Climate Strategy, Manchester City Council
Tagged Get Me Toasty, insulation, retrofit
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Greater Manchester makes its decision on the Green Deal (sort of)
In a bid to keep our readers awake and me sane, this report is only of the key decisions and interesting debates that took place at the Environment Commission’s 21 March meeting (1). It is not an official record of … Continue reading
BREAKING NEWS: Manchester’s Energy Advice Centre To Shut
A couple of weeks ago, we reported on rumours that funding cuts would see Manchester’s Energy Saving Trust (EST) advice centre closed at the end of March.We can now confirm this. Councillor Nigel Murphy, Manchester City Council’s executive member for the environment, has told us … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptation, AGMA, Energy, Manchester City Council
Tagged energy savings trust, Nigel Murphy
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Delays vs. Delivery: Greater Manchester’s Climate Change Strategy
Delivery of Greater Manchester’s Climate Change plans still on schedule despite three month delay for its approval, insist officials In July 2011 the Association of Greater Manchester Authorities agreed a Climate Change strategy with ambitious 2020 carbon reduction targets. Officers … Continue reading
Environment Commission Feb 2012 – for policy wonks only!!
Attention Conservation Notice: This detailed account of the Environment Commission’s meeting will be of interest to policy wonks fixated on Greater Manchester investment and transformation, weirdos who use their annual leave sitting in long meetings, and insomniacs. Don’t say you … Continue reading
You’re retro-fit (but my gosh, don’t you know it)
Retrofit Conference @ Salford Quays, 24-26 January Last week, I attended the UK’s first conference on how to sustainably retrofit the existing house stock. It was a three day affair held at the Lowry in Salford although I only made … Continue reading
Posted in academia, AGMA, Energy, Event reports, GM Climate Strategy
Tagged Brenda Boardman, Michael O'Doherty, University of Salford
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Event Report: Waste is a beautiful thing to mind
The chair of the Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority today launched a shameless (and successful) bid to grab headlines. Cllr Neil Swannick (Labour, Bradford ward), a former Executive Member for the Environment for Manchester City Council, was giving a report … Continue reading
Posted in AGMA, Manchester City Council, recycling
Tagged GMCA, GMWDA, John Merry, Neil Swannick
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Environment Commission Update – apologies, delays & the year ahead
Due to the high number of apologies, the Greater Manchester Environment Commission has cancelled its December meeting and rescheduled it for…. February 2012. As we head towards the end of 2011, there will be swathes of people looking back over … Continue reading
Book Review: Shaping Urban Infrastructures
How do you teach an elephant to tapdance? How do you get big slow lumbering beasts like states and city governments to make rapid and broad changes to the way they do things? These are questions posed by a bunch … Continue reading
