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Youtube: Vandana Shiva on Rio +20, “Green Economy” GM food etc
Not ’bout Manchester, but the bigger picture… Indian eco-feminist and activist Vandana Shiva gets her points across well in this four minute video.
Event Report: “Going for Growth – stimulating sustainable local regeneration” #gfg12
In a day full of words and assertions, the single most important question was not asked until fifteen minutes after the scheduled end-time. Half the delegates had already left. They missed nothing, however, because neither of the panelists, nor indeed … Continue reading
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Tagged buzzword bingo, CLES, Cooperative Group, David Harvey, don't ask a goldfish about the water, ecological modernisation, meaningless buzzwords, New Economy (sic), Noma, Public Sector Events, Richard Leese, spatial fix, steady-state economics, test of endurance
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Event Report: Manchester Day Parade, or “The Sky Has Limits” #mcrday
MCFly co-editor Marc Hudson searches the Manchester Day Parade for mention of climate change, vainly. And tacks a little gratuitious pop anthropology on the end. Why? For the lulz. Who today speaks of climate change? Nobody, it seems. I’ve read … Continue reading
Newsflash: MMUving on up – ManMet up in Green League Table
Manchester Metropolitan University has moved up 7 places in a “Green Universities” League Table” released today. The Green League Table, run by People and Planet, “the largest student network in Britain campaigning to end world poverty, defend human rights and … Continue reading
Event Report: #Manchester #madf or a digital future. A green one? Not so much.
Attention Conservation Notice: This is an account of a two hour ‘debate’ about Manchester’s digital future. Nobody brought up climate change as an Issue. A panel consisting of Dave Carter (Manchester Digital Development Agency), Dave Mee (Madlab) Tim Roberts (I-Com) … Continue reading
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Tagged and the band played on, ecological modernisation, smc_mcr, technological sublime, twitterati
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Event Report: Ecology as the Opium of the People
MCFly co-editor Marc Hudson attends a meeting with muscle relaxants mentioned in the title, but comes away neither relaxed or impressed. Wrap your thinking gear around this quote from the eco-thriller “Zdt” Wrong. Nature in the Middle Ages was a … Continue reading
Posted in academia, Event reports
Tagged apocalypse, ecological modernisation, zizek
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Everything you wanted to know about Ecological Modernisation but were afraid to ask
1. What is Ecological Modernisation? According to wikipedia, font of all reliable information, Ecological Modernisation (EM) is “an optimistic, reform-oriented school of environmental social science that has gained increasing attention among scholars and policymakers in the last several decades in … Continue reading
“Let’s get to (EN)Works”
The environmental businesses support organisation Enworks talks to MCFly co-editor Arwa Aburawa about its success, its struggles, and why now is the (cheapest) time for businesses to take action on environmental issues. Now in its tenth year, Enworks has been … Continue reading
