Category Archives: Adaptation

Actions to adapt to a changing climate

Event Report: “Women Governing Forests : A History of Absence, the Impact of Presence”

Posted on October 31, 2012 by manchesterclimatemonthly

MCFly volunteer Judith Emanuel went along to the inaugural lecture of  Professor Bina Agawarl at the University of Manchester and had this to report. Manchester’s environmental community has a wonderful new asset, Bina Agarwal Professor of Development Economics and Environment … Continue reading →

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Newsflash: “Real Food. Wythenshawe” gets £1m for 5 year project

Posted on September 3, 2012 by manchesterclimatemonthly

Real Food Wythenshawe, “an ambitious five-year programme to engage and excite the people of Wythenshawe in growing and cooking fresh, sustainable food” has received funding of £1,000,000 from the BIG Lottery Fund. That money, which will be matched by sponsoring … Continue reading →

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Food to get more expensive thanks to climate change

Posted on July 5, 2012 by manchesterclimatemonthly

Those people at the Sustainable Consumption Institute (see our interview with the head honcho here) have sent out the press release below to do with new research they’ve done entitled “What’s Cooking’ Adapation and Mitigation in the UK Food System,” … Continue reading →

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Event Report: The Challenges of Climate Change for BME Communities

Posted on June 26, 2012 by manchesterclimatemonthly

MCFly attends a workshop hoping to get the Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) communities of Manchester talking about climate change. On the 20th of June, both MCFly editors went along to the second workshop arranged by the National C ouncil … Continue reading →

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UniLife, Life on Earth and the priorities of homo sapiens “sapiens”

Posted on June 7, 2012 by manchesterclimatemonthly

Best to get the disclaimers in first; I have nothing against UniLife (“the free magazine for The University of Manchester”). It is well-designed, well-written and has lots of useful information in it about what has been going on and what … Continue reading →

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NEWSFLASH: Council to release report on Steady-State Economics

Posted on May 21, 2012 by manchesterclimatemonthly

First the good news; Manchester City Council has committed itself to producing a report on Steady State Economics.  This follows an open letter to its Economy Scrutiny committee [see membership here]. last November. That letter was signed by co-ordinators of … Continue reading →

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Event Report: Transforming Manchester, or “The thin veneer of climate governance”

Posted on May 20, 2012 by manchesterclimatemonthly

MCFly co-editor Marc Hudson went to an academic seminar about, well “Transforming Manchester” and came away informed and intrigued. The first of the two speakers was Dr Jeremy Carter, of the Centre for Urban Regional Ecology and the Ecocities project … Continue reading →

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Ecocities “widening debate” on Manchester adaptation – in parallel universe, maybe

Posted on May 14, 2012 by manchesterclimatemonthly

Words like “engagement”, and “involvement” and “stakeholders” get tossed around pretty lightly in Manchester. The reality is somewhat more tawdry. The latest example of the gap between what is said and what is done comes to us from the world … Continue reading →

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Salford Uni & Envirolink Team Up To Offer Green Training

Posted on May 1, 2012 by arwafreelance

The University of Salford and Envirolink are joining forces to offer energy and built environment training An ‘Energy Professional Development Academy’ has been set up by Salford University and low carbon business support company Envirolink to help companies cut their … Continue reading →

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BREAKING NEWS: Manchester’s Energy Advice Centre To Shut

Posted on March 14, 2012 by arwafreelance

A couple of weeks ago, we reported on rumours that funding cuts would see Manchester’s Energy Saving Trust (EST) advice centre closed at the end of March.We can now confirm this. Councillor Nigel Murphy, Manchester City Council’s executive member for the environment, has told us … Continue reading →

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