Monthly Archives: April 2013

Campaigners At The Coalface – Lameez Hafeez from MADE

What is your campaign trying to achieve? I work with MADE in Europe, an environmentally aware Muslim organisation, as a volunteer regional campaign coordinator and am currently working on the Enough Food IF campaign. The aim of this UK charity … Continue reading

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#Manchester #climate nuggets April 15th 2013

Hi all, we hope you can make it along to “Exchange for Change” on Saturday 27th April from 1pm to 5pm.  It’s an opportunity to share your skills and knowledge, meet other people who want to make Manchester a greener … Continue reading

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Cartoon: Graphs and equations, equations and graphs

This cartoon puts the pending ecological debacle in context, doesn’t it?

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Polar Bear facepalm: North Sea Oil report in the Financial Times

First paragraph on the lead story on the front page of the weekend Pink’Un.  It’s almost as if the species isn’t even pretending to try any more…  

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Upcoming Event: “I love the Arctic” – #Manchester Sat 20th April

Manchester Greenpeace are hosting an event on Sat 20th April. This below is taken from their facebook. Saturday, 20 April 13:00 until 15:00 in UTC+01 Thanks to mishap after mishap, Oil companies intent on scouring the Arctic circle for resources … Continue reading

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Something for the Weekend 12 April 2013 #Manchester #Climate

Police are warning of a new drug epidemic in Yorkshire.  People are placing ecstasy tablets above their front teeth and sucking on them.  E-by-gum. And this weekend… Saturday 13th  10am – 6pm. Northern Vegan Festival will take place in Sachas … Continue reading

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MCFly co-editors in “Applying For Steering Group Chair role” shocker #Manchester #climate #acretinfuture

Sadly, the role of chair of the Stakeholder Steering Group has become vacant. We have decided to apply for it. There’s no money, it’s for the honour of the role (and the shoulder-rubbing-with-the-great-and-the-good). We have asked, repeatedly, who will be … Continue reading

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Southway Housing Trust “fun and feedback” days #Manchester (south!) #climate

The folks at Didsbury Dinners have sent us this text below, about work they are doing with Southway Housing Trust. Let’s get the community growing Southway Housing Trust has organised a number of tenants’ conference days, called ‘fun and feedback’, … Continue reading

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Northern Vegan Festival this Saturday (13th April) in #Manchester

One way of reducing your personal carbon footprint is to change your diet. Either by eating (a lot) less meat, or going from fish-and-chipocrite to actually vegetarian, or even going from vegetarian to vegan. Worried about having to live on … Continue reading

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Volunteer Opportunity: Help grow #organic food 4 #Manchester Weds 17 April

This via Kindling Trust, who are co-ordinating volunteers to help organic farms grow food for Manchester.  You get a warm inner glow, some good exercise and probably some new friends; the farms get your labour.   Seems radically sensible, frankly… … Continue reading

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