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Training opportunities.
Media training day, run by the Mule Sat 19 November 11-5, £10pm

“Greening the Green Deal”, Sun Dec 4th, 12.30 to 4.30, at Manchester Town Hall. Free, but you need to book, which you can do via this page.

Changes on the website
– November 2011 calendar updated
An hour long lecture about “critical thinking and climate change” and skepticism/denial is now on our climate science videos page (not that we made it!)
There’s the beginnings of a glossary…
We’ve added a “Paid Gigs” page, where we will post relevant job adverts.

Local and Regional News
On 29th October, students evicted a Ryan Air stall from an employment fair. Indymedia account here.

According to NorthWest Business Insider, “a total of £227m funding has been dished out by the Regional Growth Fund to the North West as part of its second funding round. The government said the money is set to support 7,800 jobs with 39,500 indirect jobs supported. Successful bids include Pirelli Tyres in Carlisle for the development and manufacture of less carbon intensive car tyres.” Will this reduce overall carbon emissions? In principle, yes.

31 Oct Red Rose Forest is happy with its project involving tree planting in Trafford.

3 November United Utilities get £400m loan from European Investment Bank for climate mitigation and energy efficiency works

Reading
On the upcoming Durban climate talks.

Greenhouse Gas Emissions Rise by Record Amount (Guardian 4/11/2011)
Morocco to host first solar farm in €400bn renewables network
1 November The IPCC says the wild weather is gonna get wilder (Guardian)

Action urged on ships’ carbon emissions by Richard Black (BBC, 3 Nov 2011)

And Jim Hanna, sustainability director at everyone’s favourite chain, Starbucks, has told US Congress that climate change will make coffee more expensive (this caused prolonged whimpering at MCFly towers…

News flash – New research shows that carnivores don’t like vegetarians. They feel veggies judge them, so get their retaliation in first…

Campaigning tools
Tearfund have a new short video about the human impacts of climate change in the Majority World. “What does a man from rural Uganda called Emmanuel have in common with a world-renowned scientist called John from Wales? And how is a man called Bill from a terraced house in Leeds connected to Andrew, who lives in a small village in Malawi.”

Holly Hammond, at Plan to Win has written a brilliant post about facilitating large groups.

On the “Nerd Loop” and losing interest in communicating climate change