Hi all,
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thanks!
Marc Hudson and Arwa Aburawa
MCFly stories you may have missed
Council carbon reduction progress scrutinised.
Steering Group v2.0 membership
Solar Salsa!
Grab the money and run
Film competition – make a film about the upsides of low carbon living, between 30 seconds and 5 minutes and you might win five grand (Aussie).
Training Opportunities
Community Renewables Training
Local and Regional News
Dec 12 “Carbon Co-op have successfully design and installed a 12kw solar panel array for Unicorn Grocery, a wholefood co-operative in Chorlton, South Manchester. The installation made it in time to qualify for the higher rate of Feed in Tariff (FIT) and will ensure that these panels benefit both the environment and the co-operative.”
Dec 13 The Communities and Neighbourhoods Overview and Scrutiny Committe met and discussed the council’s climate change plans
Dec 13 “The North of England has the opportunity to become one of the world’s leading nuclear manufacturing hubs, creating many thousands of new jobs and generating substantial economic growth for the UK, according to a University of Manchester report. Commissioned by the Dalton Nuclear Institute, the country’s leading academic nuclear research capability, the report highlights the opportunity for the Government to invest in the vast potential of the region to meet the demands of the UK’s nuclear new build and use this as a springboard for providing goods and services to the £300bn global nuclear sector.”
Dec 13 Siemens submits plans for Hull to be home to a whopping big wind-turbine factory
Dec 15th The Committee on Climate Change published “its first comprehensive analysis of the impact of meeting carbon budgets on household energy bills, looking at impacts over the last 5 years as well as predicting what the price impacts of carbon budgets will be out to 2020. The CCC also commented on the scope there is to reduce consumer bills through improving energy efficiency in homes.
Global News
Durban Climate Talks “succumb to climate apartheid”
The ever-reliable IISD newsletter’s coverage of Durban is complete…
Dec 13 Canada pulls out of Kyoto Protocol
Reading
A network as complex as the three Rs
Airport City article
Volunteer
British Waterways are looking for chairs and members of regional partnerships.
Lessons we hope we learnt this week
Always read the document attached to the pdfs when the council sends you the results of a FOIA. You are less likely to write like, and look like, a muppet…
Always be prepared to speak at an O and S that you go to report; “It Could Be You.”
Ponder
Call for Abstracts – PhD Conference “Knowledge Gaps in Climate Change Research – How are you tackling it?”The Tyndall Centre for Climate Change is hosting the second annual PhD Conference at the University of East Anglia (Norwich, UK) from the 11-13th April 2012. The theme is “Knowledge Gaps in Climate Change Research – How are you tackling it?”, reflecting the innovative and interdisciplinary research being carried out by PhD researchers across the UK and wider world.
Registration is now open for this event via the website http://www.tyndall.ac.uk/knowledge-gaps-conference and will remain so until 1st March, although places will be allocated on a first come, first serve basis. Abstracts must be received by the 23rd January 2012 via the same registration form. knowledge_gaps@uea.ac.uk.
Manchester job
Position: Researcher – Toxic Remnants of War
Organisation: International Coalition to Ban Uranium Weapons
Salary: £24,500 pa
Location: Manchester
Hours: Full time – 35 hours
Contract: 12 months initially
Closing date: Thursday 29th December 2011
Website: http://www.bandepleteduranium.org
Here’s the link on their website.
Scary Science
“Dramatic and unprecedented plumes of methane – a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide – have been seen bubbling to the surface of the Arctic Ocean by scientists undertaking an extensive survey of the region.
“The scale and volume of the methane release has astonished the head of the Russian research team who has been surveying the seabed of the East Siberian Arctic Shelf off northern Russia for nearly 20 years.” From the Independent…
Humour
from http://www.explosm.net/comics/2640/
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