Monthly Archives: October 2017

Manchester City Council refuses to make database of carbon literacy training public

Back in 2009 Manchester City Council said that everyone who lived, worked or studied in Manchester would receive a day of carbon literacy training (an online and face-to-face thing) by the end of 2013. In late 2012 Council leader Richard … Continue reading

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New #Manchester Council CEO gets NO specific #climate plan report

Manchester City Council’s new Chief Executive, Joanne Roney, has not done her carbon literacy training (as reported yesterday).  Neither has she been given anything more than a verbal briefing on the status of the City Council’s climate change action plan … Continue reading

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Letters to the MEN: #climate #religion #Manchester

Following last Monday’s truly appalling debacle at Manchester Cathedral, I was inspired to write a letter to the MEN on the subject of manels, which got published on Thursday. On Saturday and again today, other attendees at that debacle have … Continue reading

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#Manchester Carbon Literacy debacle – no Senior Management Team take training

Manchester City Council has a ‘Senior Management Team’ made up of ten well-paid bureaucrats.  How many of them has done the ‘carbon literacy training’  that is supposed to help Manchester become a low carbon culture?  Well, in February the answer … Continue reading

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