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
Event Report: Sceptical about scepticism as the cause of the climate movement’s failure
Dr Lorraine Whitmarsh came to Manchester and gave a very compelling seminar about the causes and consequences of climate scepticism. MCFly co-editor Marc Hudson wonders, though, if the reasons for the laughable state of the “climate movement” – a topic … Continue reading
MEN letter on academic freedom, #MMU and the skills and knowledge we need for the rocky road ahead
UPDATE: Campaigners are asking you to “LOBBY Ian Parker’s disciplinary hearing – Wednesday 7th November, 08.30am, ORMOND BUILDING. (Please check www.asylumonline.net/ian on the day – last time management changed the venue at a few hours’ notice).” The Manchester Evening News published … Continue reading
Posted in academia, Signs of the Pending Ecological Debacle
Tagged MMU, Professor Ian Parker
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Event Report: Keep Calm and Prepare for (Climate) Change
Arwa Aburawa (MCFly co-editor) attends an RSA event looking into the need for businesses to take green action and worries that the hard decisions are still being sidelined. ‘It’s no longer business as usual’. If I had a pound for … Continue reading
Upcoming event: ‘Changing public attitudes to climate change: Is scepticism really rising, and if so why?’ #Manchester Tues 23rd October
This should be very good indeed, and MCFly would recommend anyone with any interest to get along if they can. The presenter is Dr Lorraine Whitmarsh, Cardiff University, of whom we have written previously (e.g. Carbon Literacy versus Carbon Capability). … Continue reading
Youtube: Dr Alice Bows talks about the ‘What’s Cooking’ report
Short video starring Dr Alice Bows of the Sustainable Consumption Institute, ahead of the presentation she gave at tonight’s Friends of the Earth meeting.
Posted in academia, youtubes
Tagged Alice, Manchester Friends of the Earth, Sustainable Consumption Institute
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Prof Kevin Anderson on “The Climate Clock is Ticking. Normal isn’t Working. What Will You Do differently?”
Below is Professor Kevin Anderson’s submission for the recent “Climate Clock is Ticking” series. The Guardian don’t appear to have used it in either their print edition or online. Below his submission we have posted our response to the same … Continue reading
Event Report: “Urban Waste Transitions”- a wasted opportunity? #Manchester
Laurence Menhinick gets lost into academia-land for a day at the Sustainable Consumption Institute’s “Urban Waste Transitions Workshop.” Today was hardly about real waste. Or transition. Actually, what’s a workshop again? According to the welcome pack, over 55 people registered… … Continue reading
Newsflash: Prof Kevin Anderson on Today programme Monday 1st October
[UPDATE 7.15am Mon 1st – Prof Anderson has informed us that the slot has been cancelled.] Professor Kevin Anderson of the Tyndall Centre(recently interviewed by Manchester Climate Monthly) and Professor Nick Pidgeon (Environmental Psychology, Cardiff) will be on the Today … Continue reading
Posted in academia, Upcoming Events
Tagged Kevin Anderson, new economics foundation, Nick Pidgeon, Radio 4, Today programme
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Arctic: “No ice ice baby”
Here’s a graph of the Arctic ice melt that’s getting soooo much front page/lead story coverage in the mainstream media. As the original post says, “We’re going to need a bigger graph.” Apologies for the title of this post. It’s … Continue reading
Newsflash: Anderson & Bows – “the threshold of 2 °C is no longer viable”
Professor Kevin Anderson and Doctor Alice Bows are Manchester-based academics working on climate change and what its impacts will be. They have written many peer-reviewed articles and reports, and given seminars a-plenty. (We recently interviewed Kevin – read the full … Continue reading
Posted in academia, Article alert, Manchester City Council
Tagged Dr Alice Bows, Kevin Anderson
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