Ir you give a damn, find a functional group
Our "leaders" are going to keep making empty promises. It makes them feel good. It gets the activists to act like zombie kittens. If you want to have some self-respect and perhaps make a difference (actual facts may vary), then find a functioning group that cares about your skills and knowledge - what you have, what you want. One useful group might be www.climateemergencymanchester.net - you can email them on contact@climateemergencymanchester.net-
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Job Alert – Environmental Action Manager at #Manchester Museum
You want this job. Deadline to apply is Sunday 28 November. Partial blurb here- Manchester Museum, at The University of Manchester, is in the midst of its most ambitious capital development in a generation – hello future. Driven by an … Continue reading
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Will the Council try to learn anything?
Don’t read this letter to the City Solicitor of Manchester City Council below until you read THIS. Dear Ms Ledden, Re: Internal Review of Freedom of Information Act request 5790. thank you for your prompt and thorough internal review, dated … Continue reading
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Manchester City Council caught lying about “carbon literacy” status of comms team.
Manchester City Council has been forced to do admit that it released “inaccurate” information about the carbon literacy status of its communications staff. The shocking admission comes after Manchester Climate Monthly requested an internal review of an earlier response to … Continue reading
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Job Alert: Press Officer for New Economy Organisers Network (maternity cover)
Location: Manchester (preferred) or London. Home (if Manchester based) or hybrid working: our flexible working policy requires everyone London-based to be in our east London office for 25% of the time as a minimum because building in-person relationships is important to … Continue reading
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Put down that amnesia wand, or we’ll all be dumb… #Manchester #climate #movementbuilding #failure
Reader(s) of a certain vintage and geographical persuasion will remember a 1987 Midnight Oil song “Put Down that Weapon” which implored “Put down that weapon or we’ll all be gone.” And a couple of lines later And it happens to … Continue reading
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MUST WATCH: Prof Loretta Ross on calling out/calling in and much in between
Superb video, lots of things that will make you go “yes!” and other bits that will have you wince, I think… More info about the prof here.
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Where are the #climate groups now? Or “Manchester Activist Scene Tedious And Banal ‘All Together’ Exhortations”
Two and a half years ago – at what I suspected at the time was the height of the climate issue (1) – I wrote a piece called A bluffer’s guide to #Manchester environment & #climate organisations, old and new. … Continue reading
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Who you gonna believe, me or your lyin’ eyes?
If people won’t even tell the truth about their own actions, why should we trust their analysis of others’? Or their trustworthiness, competence etc? Serious question. And silence is complicity, btw.
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#COP26 hot take of hot takes
Said it before, will say it again. #COP26 is utterly irrelevant for people who want to do real stuff in #Manchester. Still, here’s a very lightly annotated list of a tiny proportion of the hot takes. I have even wasted … Continue reading
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What #COP26 means for #Manchester on #climate
First off, that’s a clickbait headline. Sorry. Anyone who knows this website, or my perspective, knows what is coming. COP26 means absolutely nothing. It never did, and anyone who told you it did, who told you that it was somehow … Continue reading
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