Hi all,

Please “hold the date” – Sat April 27th from 1pm to 5pm.  You will want to be “there”.  Where there? What there?  All will be revealed, this week…

Next Monday sees the launch of MCFly 16 (2/3rds of the way through!) – full of the usual stories and gossip. It’s not too late to send your scurrilous and libellous rumours in…  Not saying we can print them, of course, but ya never know.

Arwa Aburawa and Marc Hudson

Coming up this week

Monday 25th, 1pm Transformative innovation policy for sustainable cities Fred Steward, Professor of Innovation and Sustainability, Policy Studies Institute,
University of Westminster, London
Manchester Institute of Innovation Research Seminar Series Room 10.05 Harold Hankins Building

Weds 27 March, 6.30pm to 9pm To mark the first year of St. John’s Sunshine, a member owned co-op generating energy from the sun from solar panels on the roof of St. John’s Church, we are inviting you to a Quiz Night where members will also be awarding 2 Sunshine Grants to local community groups. This is to celebrate our first year that has generated 3,000Kw of clean electricity, saved CO2 emissions and earned over £1,000 for St John’s Sunshine and the local community.

Come and see who wins the awards, join our co-op and join in the Quiz….with some great prizes! www.stjohnssunshine.org.uk
St. John’s Centre, St. John’s Road Old Trafford, M16 7GX

Friday March 29th Critical Mass bike ride. Starts at Manchester Central Library, 6pm

Stories you may have missed on the MCFly website

• Event Report: “New Nuclear Build Programme” #Manchester 12th March
• #Manchester Evening News loves #climate press release so much that they print it twice. #epicfail
• Awareness into action? Manchester BME groups talk climate change
• Event Report: “Green Economy, Green Jobs” March 15th #Manchester #climate #makingenemiesforfunandprofit
• Event Report: Carbon Coop AGM #manchester #climate “people powered not fossil fuelled”
• PMT #12: Hold the Date- Sat April 27th, 1pm to 5pm
• Steering Group Elections; Statement versus official minutes #Manchester #climate
• Event Report: The Politics and Promise of Urban Food #Manchester #climate
• Stop Kidding – Adopt (A Council Scrutiny Committee)

News

Local

Some news about a petition that reached its target, or pledges… um. No, it’s gone. Going senile…

National

In the Budget George Osborne kept a carbon capture and storage competition going, but deferred the final investment decision on the winning project until… 2015.  Nice sense of urgency.  Meanwhile, he pledged to introduce a “generous new tax regime” for shale gas, which is “part of the future.”

International

Thurs 21st March “Suntech Power Holdings, until recently the world’s largest solar panel producer, has said that its main subsidiary in China is bankrupt, in a further illustration of the declining fortunes of the global solar industry.”  (Financial Times)