Last November a bunch of young sweet innocent Sciences Po students made a mistake. They allowed me to come and rant at them, and run a workshop on their skills and knowledge.

Here’s me trying to explain to them my view on why there is so much rhetoric about “green” in (Greater) Manchester, stealing the ideas of Aidan While et al.
(The Environment and the Entrepreneurial City: Searching for the Urban ‘Sustainability Fix’ in Manchester and Leeds* AIDAN WHILE, ANDREW E.G. JONAS and DAVID GIBBS)