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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Category Archives: academia
Upcoming Conference; “Sustained Unsustainability” in Bath, Fri Dec 6th #notinchucklezone
I’ll be there, leaving the house at stupid o’clock – a wife and cat in nice warm bed – in order to schlep down to Bath to hear all about how doomed we are. #verystrangeman Sustained Unsustainability Barriers to transformative … Continue reading
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#Manchester Centre for Urban Resilience and Energy: A CURE for all our ills?
On Monday 18th November the University of Manchester’s Centre for Urban Regional Ecology becomes the Centre for Urban Resilience and Energy. There’s a launch event and all… Ahead of that, we’ve put some questions to its co-director Joe Ravetz… 1) … Continue reading
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Upcoming Event: Hackday in #Manchester on #climate calculator. #MadLab Thurs Nov 28th
Madlab is awesome. Geeks are awesome. Getting to the bottom of the Department of Energy and Climate Change’s “carbon calculator” would be awesome. #rearrangingdeccchairs This day, it will be… awesome. DECC 2050 Calculator Hackday Tell a friend Share Thursday, November … Continue reading
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Video: Professor Kevin Anderson of #Manchester Tyndall on Typhoon Haiyan and direct #climate impacts in UK
See also this letter in Manchester Evening News yesterday. And this article!
Video: Prof Kevin Anderson of #Manchester Tyndall on the Radical Emissions Reduction Conference
See details of the conference below! From here: Today, in 2013, we face an unavoidably radical future. We either continue with rising emissions and reap the radical repercussions of severe climate change, or we acknowledge that we have a choice … Continue reading
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Video about “Fossil Free” divestment event in Birmingham
MCFly volunteer Claire Woolley has made her first video! She attended the Birmingham event in the “Fossil Free” tour put on by campaigning groups People and Planet, 350.org and Operation Noah. “Drawing inspiration from the anti-apartheid campaigns of the 1980s … Continue reading
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Upcoming Event: #Manchester University “Centre for Urban Resilience and Energy” launch Nov 18th
I was going to call this post “A CURE for all our ills,” but you can get too tricksy about these things, and I have been reliably informed that puns don’t work in blog post titles… There’s a launch coming … Continue reading
Event Report: “The arduous transition to low-carbon energy” #Manchester #climate
Professor Frank Geels of the Sustainable Consumption Institute gave a seminar last week. Professor “of System Innovation and Sustainability,” he moved to Manchester last year and (to quote his biog), “is chairman of the international Sustainability Transitions Research Network (www.transitionsnetwork.org), … Continue reading
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Upcoming Event in #Manchester – “Sustainable North” Weds 30th Oct at Biospheric Foundation
Details and sign up here. It’s free! The future of the North lies in its capacity to imagine, develop and enact economic, social, environmental and cultural strategies for sustainable development. This workshop explores the conceptual and imaginative insights of established … Continue reading
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Event: “The ardous transition to low-carbon energy” #Manchester Tues 29th Oct. #solookingforward
Okay, this is exciting. On Tuesday 29th October (note the date change!) Professor Frank Geels will be doing a seminar on the multi-level perspective, renewable electricity niches and resilient regimes. I know that sounds like a mouthful, and I hope … Continue reading
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