Hi all,

don’t forget to sign up for the right to maybe be considered a suitable attendee at the “Stakeholder” “conference” (three and a half hours is just a long meeting, really), on Monday 4th March.    And if you want to get involved in Manchester Climate Monthly, you know where to find us…

Arwa Aburawa and Marc Hudson

Coming up this week

Mon 21st, 6.30 to 9pm Climate Survivors monthly meeting Phil and Katherine’s home, Levenshulme (contact them via website)

Tuesday January 22nd, 10.30-13.00 Manchester City Council Environmental Strategy Programme Board meeting. Room 2.02 One First Street.  Open to the public? I’m sorry, you must have mistaken this Local Authority for one that is genuinely interested in transparency and democratic engagement!

Thu 24, 7pm to 8.30pm Manchester Friends of the Earth climate campaign meeting
An extra 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 text Ali on 07786 090520 so we know to expect you. Green Fish Resource Centre, 46-50 Oldham St, Manchester M4 1LE

Friday 25^th 11-6.30pm  Friends Meeting House OPEN DAY
“You probably know that we’ve in the midst of some major changes here at the Friends Meeting House in Central Manchester.  The end of the building work is now in sight… and it’s looking great! In a few weeks’ time we’ll have some fantastic new meeting rooms, a much more accessible building, and a much more sustainable and eco-friendly one too. We’d love to show you what we’ve done, and our fabulous new facilities …  so we’re holding an open day.  Friday 25^th January 2013 …pop in any time between 11am and 6.30pm.  We’ll ply you with tea and cake, and our team will be available to chat and show you round.”

Stories you may have missed on the MCFly website

• Grow #food! – “Do you want to be a commercial organic grower for Greater #Manchester?”
• The year ahead: Kindling Trust (Lessons learned and future goals for #Manchester #climate groups)
• Upcoming Event: #organic food in #Salford – Biospheric Foundation, Thurs Feb 14th
• The year ahead: Tyndall Manchester (Lessons learned and future goals for #Manchester #climate groups)
• Grants for Greater #Manchester projects to increase #recycling and reduce waste
• Newsflash: Leaked #Manchester #Climate Steering Group recruitment questionnaire!!
• Newsflash: At last!! #Manchester: A Certain Future Conference 2013 details #climate #debacle
• Event Report: “What will a Low Carbon #Manchester look like?”
• Upcoming Event: “Creativity, energy and climate change shared learning workshop” 8-9 Feb, #Manchester
• Job Alert: Permanent job with Glebelands City Growers, Sale, Greater #Manchester
• PMT #3: Ask @SirRichardLeese to answer straightforward questions about #climate #adaptation in #Manchester
• “Little Green Feats” – AfSL’s Interactive #Sustainability Workshop for Kids in #Manchester

Local news

Manchester City Council flogs some of its stake in Manchester Airports Group so MAG can… buy Stansted Airport.  Fortunately, that has nothing to do whatsoever with the city’s moral culpability for carbon emissions, nosiree.

Fracking in Salford?  Perfectly safe…

National news
The UK is trying to water down (ho ho) proposed regulations on Arctic drilling. I defy you to make this stuff up.

International news
“Adios Two Degrees” says a former Met Office boss, at (yet) another international conference…

Things to read while the algae grows on your fur

Five Reasons Why Urban Farming is the most important movement of our time

http://sharpedgetrip.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/norwich-58-manchester-er.html

“A bright future for Kindling Trust”

http://savealexandraparkstrees.wordpress.com/2013/01/15/biodiversity-masterplan-now-complete/

Denialist #epicfail – Koch brothers’ funded study finds global warming is happening after all. Who knew?

Richard Leese now on Twitter – @SirRichardLeese

Where there’s muck there’s brass!
From insider news north west “A Cumbrian business set up by father and son farmers and a renewable energy developer has received investment from CO2Sense to develop an onsite anaerobic digestion (AD) plant. Farmers Phillip and James Stanley identified AD technology as a means to diversify their farm business and generate an additional income stream.
The new company, called Stanley Renewable Energy, has been set up in partnership with North Yorkshire AD specialist JFS & Associates to build, own and operate the plant.”