Hi all,
the latest MCFly (vol 2, no 1) came out last week. It’s full of news, views and reviews. Let us know what you like, don’t like, would like to see in it in future…
Hope you’re all well and your resolutions involve resourcefulness, social justice and volunteering with Manchester Climate Monthly. You know where to find us…
Final thing – next Saturday (19th) there’s an interesting workshop on “In Place of Growth” (disclaimer – we are both involved in the group that is putting it on). Follow the link for more information, and to book your place…
Arwa Aburawa and Marc Hudson
Coming up this week
Upcoming Event: How will Low Carbon #Manchester look? Tues 15 Jan, 6pm…
Stories you may have missed on the MCFly website
- Save £250 on your electricity and gas bills (but please, #Manchester folks, don’t put that dosh towards a cheap flight!)
- From the coalface – Catrina Pickering from AfSL
- #Manchester Tyndall articles about shipping, #aviation and #climate by Prof Kevin Anderson and Dr Alice Bows
- Another one bites the dust: Envirolink NW into liquidation
- Press Release: “BREATHE CLEAN AIR GROUP STILL FIGHTING” in #Manchester and #Trafford
- Colour me amazed: Australian weather-mappers need new colours for new peak temperatures #deeppurple #toast
- #Manchester City Council leader Richard Leese on #climate adaptation? Maybe…
- Upcoming Event: How will Low Carbon #Manchester look? Tues 15 Jan, 6pm…
- Nominate someone for Woman and the Environment award
- Stakeholder Conference will happen on Mon 4th March.
- #Manchester Evening News: “Win flights to… London” – “Going green as top priority”? #epicfail
- Newsflash: Steering Group blog post to appear!!!
- Letter on climate change the #Manchester Evening News didn’t publish
Local news
Good news for (but not about) Manchester Airport
Stakeholder Conference will happen on Mon 4th March.
Manchester Green Party has a new committee –
- Chair: Deyika Nzeribe
- Secretary: David Mottram
- Membership Secretary: George Czernuszka
- Treasurer: Sam Darby
- Additional committee member: Wendy Lynas
National news
Kate Butler (Stockport Councillor) muses on the first #CllrCamp
International news
Weds 9 Obama considering climate summit (Guardian)
Barack Obama may intervene directly on climate change by hosting a summit at the White House early in his second term, environmental groups say.
They say the White House has given encouraging signals to a proposal for Obama to use the broad-based and bipartisan summit to launch a national climate action strategy.”
Fri 11 Report says Climate Change is already changing US daily life
“WASHINGTON (AP) – Global warming is already changing America from sea to rising sea and is affecting how Americans live, a massive new federally commissioned report says. A special panel of scientists convened by the government issued Friday a 1,146-page draft report that details in dozens of ways how climate change is already disrupting the health, homes and other facets of daily American life. It warns that those disruptions will increase in the future.”
Things to read while the algae grows on your fur
