Hi all,

This youtube is 54 seconds long and tells you about a really exciting project happening here in Manchester. Please watch it!

And this Thursday (19th) there’s a gathering at Madlab, on Edge St.
See here for more details.

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…
PS Here’s our post-mortem of the last print issue. Please add to it!

Arwa Aburawa and Marc Hudson

Coming up this week

Weds 18th Economy Scrutiny Committee meeting of Manchester City Council

Thurs 19th, 3pm to 5pm Social Media Surgery at Zion Arts Centre, Hulme Book here

“We are here to listen to what organisations like you, community organisations, want to achieve by using social media in your workplace.
• Are you ‘Facebooked out?!’ Need help with your account?
• Do you want to know what everyone is twittering on about?
• Have you already got a wordpress account and have specific questions for us?
• Do you want to use video or pictures on the web to raise the awareness of your group or cause?
“Your place is free! Come and bring any social media questions and our volunteers and social media experts will help you out!”

Thursday 19th, 6.30pm to 9.00pm Steady State Manchester gathering at MadLab, Edge St in the Northern Quarter.
steadystatemanchester.net for more information

Stories you may have missed on the MCFly website

• Sometimes it’s what #Manchester leaders DON’T say that matters: Silence and #climate change
• Fallowfield Secret Garden – week-long opening!!
• Something for the Weekend 13 July 2012 #Manchester #Climate
• Event Report: What’s cooking? The planet, soon enough
• Steady State Manchester: how, where, why etc
• Going Through the Motions? Manchester City Council and Climate Change
• Newsflash: Manchester City Council going through the fracking motions
• (Fracking Awful Event) Report: MCFly unco-operative? Bank on it.
• Volunteer Opportunity: Help make #Manchester carbon literate!!
• Setting Manchester City Council in ‘Green’ Motion?
• Job Alert: Volunteer Coordinator for EMERGE 3Rs (paid gig!!)
• “News”- Greater #Manchester Climate Strategy Implementation Plan delayed. Again

Volunteer opportunities
Work with Cooler Projects to make Manchester more carbon literate.

Lessons we like to pretend we have learnt
This week we are not pretending that we have learnt any lessons. Normal service (of pretence) will resume next week.

Reading the Manchester web

West Gorton to be “enthused”

Things worth reading

George Osborne versus the future – extraordinary piece in the Guardian…