Hi all,
a date for your diary; this Friday 15th June from 7.30pm – “Ending Activism” at the Lass O’Gowrie pub, Charles St. An opportunity to meet people, have fun, discuss past, present and future “activism.” It’ll be a fun and “no pressure” event – you get to mingle, chat and reflect and you will not be asked to take on work/campaigns etc.
Best wishes, and, as ever, if you want to volunteer some time and/or energy to MCFly, get in touch with us via mcmonthly@gmail.com…
By the way, the latest issue (number 6) is out now. You can view it here.
Arwa Aburawa and Marc Hudson
Coming up this week
Tues 12 June, 6 to 7.30pm Towards a Sustainable Manchester?
Panel: Charlie Baker (URBED Ltd) James Evans (University of Manchester), Todd Holden (GM Chamber of Commerce), Neil McInroy (Centre for Local Economic Strategies). Chaired by Andy Karvonen (University of Manchester)
VENUE: Anthony Burgess Foundation, Chorlton Mill, 3 Cambridge Street, M1 5BY
TICKETS: Free Registration at www.cities.manchester.ac.uk/events/urban_forums
Tues 12 June, 7pm to 9m Friends of the Earth full group meeting, Greenfish Resource Centre. Media Training!
Wed 13 June: George McKay ‘Radical gardening’, Working Class Movement Library, Salford. Radical gardening: politics, idealism & rebellion in the garden, aims to show how notions of utopia, of community, of peace and of activism are worked through in the garden. Working Class Movement Library, 51 The Crescent, Salford, U.K. M5 4WX Ring 0161 736 3601 to book a place
Wednesday 13th June Climate Survivors meeting call Pauline on 0777 992 3681 for the address – we often meet in someone’s house so we communicate this privately to those who are attending.
Thu 14 June 12.30pm – 5pm: Tackling Nature Deficit Disorder, Bridge 5 Mill, 22a Beswick Street, Manchester M4 7HR
This conference raises the debate about our how life-style choices and attitudes are changing our relationship to nature. Aimed at educators, the event will explore the impacts on young people, particularly in an urban environment, and focus on what we can do to help young people re-connect with nature. TO BOOK YOUR PLACE: Please register at http://www.eventbrite.com/event/3477809221 (£10 ticket: lunch/dinner/beverages). Spaces are limited.
Thursday, June 14 from 5:30pm – 8:30pm
North West Sustainable Business Quarterly ‘Realising the Green Economy – the social challenges’
Bruntwood, City Tower, Picadilly Plaza, Manchester, M1 4BT
Speakers Luke Wilde, Director, TwentyFifty
John Atherton, Director, The Stable Trading Company
Thurs 14 June from 7 to 9pm What if… Manchester was as Sustainable as Havana. Manchester Museum. More details and booking here.
Thu 14 June7pm – 8.30pm: MFOE climate subgroup meeting, Green Fish Monthly Friends of the Earth climate subgroup meeting at which we’ll be planning next steps on the Clean British Energy campaign and our local campaign to engage businesses with Manchester’s climate change plan, A Certain Future. If you’d like to join us, please call/text Ali on 07786 090520 so we know to expect you. Green Fish Resource Centre, 46-50 Oldham Street, Manchester M4 1LE
Fri 15, 6 to 7pm Free performance at Royal Exchange Theatre by “Geddes Loom“
Geddes Loom fuse spoken word, songwriting, beatbox, story-telling and electronic and acoustic music to create unique and intriguing musical and theatrical performances.
The group currently consists of poet and beatboxer Ben Mellor, singer, writer and cellist Léonie Higgins, and guitarist and all round purveyor of Technology, Dan Steele.
Fri 15, 7.30pm Ending Activism launch event. Lass O’Gowrie Pub, Charles St.
www.endingactivism.org
Stories you may have missed on the MCFly website
-
- Event Report: Manchester Day Parade, or “The Sky Has Limits” #mcrday
- Danger-ous amounts of cycling to be done!
- Book Review: Occupy World Street
- UniLife, Life on Earth and the priorities of homo sapiens “sapiens”
- Book Review: Climate Change and Political Strategy
Lessons we like to pretend we have learnt
1) Everyone over-estimates their availability. 2) The incompetence is outstanding.
Things worth reading
SchNews on Fossil Fools and Rio +20Climate change stunner: USA leads world in CO2 cuts since 2006
Seven cities to study urban adaptation to climate change
Scary Science
World heading for 6C temperature rise
The International Energy Agency says current energy trends indicate a long-term temperature increase of 6C. A new report Tracking Clean Energy Progress says there is no stabilisation of greenhouse gas emissions in sight, and that if this continues, energy use in 2050 will be twice that of 2009, leading to a long-term temperature rise of 6C. The International Energy Agency says current energy trends indicate a long-term temperature increase of 6C. A new report Tracking Clean Energy Progress says there is no stabilisation of greenhouse gas emissions in sight, and that if this continues, energy use in 2050 will be twice that of 2009, leading to a long-term temperature rise of 6C.Is Humanity Pushing Past a Tipping Point? (the question is not rhetorical. Yet)
And finally…
North Carolina legislator seeks to outlaw sea rise!! (hat-tip to Pete Abel of Friends of the Earth)
manchester climate monthly 