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Our "leaders" are going to keep making empty promises. It makes them feel good. It gets the activists to act like zombie kittens. If you want to have some self-respect and perhaps make a difference (actual facts may vary), then find a functioning group that cares about your skills and knowledge - what you have, what you want. One useful group might be www.climateemergencymanchester.net - you can email them on contact@climateemergencymanchester.net-
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Monthly Archives: December 2011
Youtube: Bluffer’s Guide to Oversight & Scrutiny Committees
Manchester City Council has six Oversight and Scrutiny Committees. They meet every six weeks or so. In our humble (cough cough) opinion, they deserve closer attention from everyone who cares about this city’s response to/preparations for climate change. Here is … Continue reading
The Steering Group: Our Final Word
You’re sick of reading axe-grinding snarkiness from us about the Stakeholder Steering Group? Think how sick we are of writing it!! So we are going to stop (1). Sort of. For now… Yes, there were no minutes – and, far … Continue reading
“Love Your Bike” is loved
A Manchester-based cycling campaign has won the “Greener Futures” category at an awards ceremony at Manchester Town Hall last night. “Love Your Bike,” the “Greater Manchester campaign which aims to promote cycling and to help make it an attractive, accessible … Continue reading
Caption Contest: Chris Huhne in Durban
The latest international talk-fest on climate change finishes today, and the exciting news is there may be a deal for discussions about a roadmap! (Just like the Bali roadmap that lead to the stunning success that was the Copenhagen conference … Continue reading
Bluffers Guide To…. The November 2011 Progress Report on Manchester’s Climate Change Targets
An 8 page report about the progress of Manchester City Council (MCC) is making with its climate change plans has been released. It will be discussed at the Communities and Neighbourhoods Overview and Scrutiny Committee on the 13th of December (2pm, Commitee Room … Continue reading
Newsflash: Council and campaigners to investigate steady state economy
Steady-state economics will get a closer examination, in a significant and brave move announced today by Manchester City Council’s “Employment, Economy and Skills” oversight and scrutiny committee. This follows a brief report on the topic to the committee last month. … Continue reading
Art Exhibition explores the price of aviation
You enter a blacked-out room, large projector screens around you. You feel you are in the grounds of a farm wedged between airport runways. A full day of events happens in 15 minutes and it is very very noisy. But … Continue reading
Posted in Event reports, Manchester Airport
Tagged air pressure, Dama Kudoja, Narita Airport, whitworth art gallery
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Stop Press: Climate Plan to come under scrutiny
On Tuesday 13 December the Manchester Climate Change Action Plan will be put under the spotlight by a committee made up of councillors from Manchester City Council At 2pm, in Manchester Town Hall’s Committee Room 11, the “Communities and Neighbourhoods … Continue reading
Never Mind The Ballots
Manchester’s Climate Change ‘Steering Group’ decides to by-pass its own democratic protocol of electing members Annual elections that would give much needed credibility to Manchester’s Climate Change Steering Group have been cancelled. The Steering Group’s chair, Steve Connor, told MCFly over the … Continue reading
The sun also… sets on solar panel scheme
Plans to install solar panels on 3,000 roofs across Greater Manchester have been cut to just 600 roofs. Move follows the government’s decision to slash the feed-in-tariffs on December 12th. Manchester City Council’s Director of Housing Paul Beardmore today told … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptation, Energy, Manchester City Council
Tagged Northwards Housing, Solar Panels
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