Category Archives: Climate Change Action Plan

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Newsflash: #Manchester Stakeholder Conference to be held on Monday 4th March. MCFly urges you not to bother booking annual leave NOW.

Posted on January 8, 2013 by manchesterclimatemonthly

You may have read on the official website “manchesterclimate.com”  that the Stakeholder Conference would be held on Friday 8th March.  This was wrong. (1) You may have read in a report to Manchester City Council that the Stakeholder Conference would … Continue reading →

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Letter on climate change the #Manchester Evening News didn’t publish

Posted on January 7, 2013 by manchesterclimatemonthly

Here’s a letter I sent in last Thursday about the Scrutiny Committee meeting on Tuesday 8th. Sadly it hasn’t made it in – but persistence is the name of the game when it comes to letters to the editor… It … Continue reading →

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#Manchester #climate Stakeholder Conference 2013 – beyond belief, beyond satire

Posted on January 4, 2013 by manchesterclimatemonthly

UPDATE 7th January: The plot thickens!  We have just stumbled upon a blog post, dated 17th December, on the official Steering Group website that states unequivocally that some of these questions below have been debated and agreed already at the … Continue reading →

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Newsflash: #Manchester Council committee to discuss #climate change and energy issues, Tues 8th January, 2pm

Posted on January 3, 2013 by manchesterclimatemonthly

On Tuesday 8 January 2013 the Neighbourhoods Scrutiny Committee of Manchester City Council will discuss two report: one on the Manchester Climate Change “Action Plan (70 pages – see MCFly’s submission to the writers here), and another on the Greater … Continue reading →

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The #Manchester Climate Change Action Plan “refresh” insultation; MCFly’s contribution

Posted on December 9, 2012 by manchesterclimatemonthly

Attention Conservation Notice: This is an open letter to the Steering Group about their “refresh” of the Manchester Climate Change Action Plan. We know it will be ignored, but silence in the face of such disastrous inadequacy is complicity. And … Continue reading →

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#Manchester City Council to discuss climate change at full council? Er, no…

Posted on December 5, 2012 by manchesterclimatemonthly

UPDATE: The plot… thins.  See the end of this post for more details and an apology. MCFly jumps the gun twice in a week!! Must see a doctor about that premature encapsulation… An in-depth presentation of climate change action by … Continue reading →

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Cross-post from the Sustainable Change Co-operative” – Climate report gloom

Posted on November 25, 2012 by manchesterclimatemonthly

The Sustainable Change Co-operative is a group of “leading environmental and sustainability consultants based in Manchester. [Their] goal is to help enterprises of all kinds thrive whilst playing a positive role in the move towards a fairer society that’s in … Continue reading →

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Youtube about #Manchester Hackathon, musings about technology and climate activism #mcrhack

Posted on November 18, 2012 by manchesterclimatemonthly

Here’s a video I made about yesterday’s “Hackathon,” organised by Open Data Manchester. [UPDATE: Sigh, I failed to mute a video clip, so have drowned out a bit of Dave Carter… So it goes. Fixed it!] It was a great … Continue reading →

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(Unpaid) Job Alert: Chairs of “Steering Group” sub-groups needed

Posted on November 9, 2012 by manchesterclimatemonthly

Careful and/or long-term readers of MCFly will know we’ve not been entirely uncritical of the “Stakeholder Steering Group.”  We reported on its reboot, wrote them an open letter with suggestions about how to pull their fingers out (they ignored it) … Continue reading →

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GM Climate Change Implementation Plan Delay is ‘Strategic’

Posted on October 9, 2012 by arwafreelance

Ahead of tomorrow afternoon’s “Environment” “Commission” meeting, where the Climate Change Action Plan STILL won’t be brought forward, we are putting online this article which is an expansion of a squib which appeared in the August issue of MCFly.  No … Continue reading →

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