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: Energy
Good news: Reservoir to be completely screwed!
MCFly talks to Clare Walker*, who been helping some local community-owned schemes to turn water and gravity into … electricity. Who is it that has been raising money? H2ope (Water Power Enterprises) the social enterprise behind the UK’s first community-owned … Continue reading
Give me sunshine – solar power on a Trafford church
The Guardian Northerner blog has a story MCFly readers will find interesting. Judicial review signals green light for community solar project An innovative community enterprise in Old Trafford has welcomed the Supreme Court’s ruling last month over government plans to … Continue reading
Good news – “Get Me Toasty” is not toast
Before we begin – you can book your free ticket for the Tuesday 17th April “Is Manchester City Council taking the right action on climate change?” question time event (with real live councillors from Labour and Lib Dems, and a … Continue reading
Posted in AGMA, Energy, GM Climate Strategy, Manchester City Council
Tagged Get Me Toasty, insulation, retrofit
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Manchester Gets Ready to Retrofit
MCFly writer Philip James investigates plans for a Mancunian “retrofit revolution” Manchester is readying itself for a retrofit revolution. Our leaky existing housing stock has to be transformed into well-insulated, airtight and efficient homes that are fit for a low … Continue reading
Posted in Energy
Tagged adaptation, afsl, carbon coop, decc, ecospheric, Green Deal, LEAF, manchester city council, retro, retrofit, urbed
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BREAKING NEWS: Manchester’s Energy Advice Centre To Shut
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
Posted in Adaptation, AGMA, Energy, Manchester City Council
Tagged energy savings trust, Nigel Murphy
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Event report: Engineering a solution to the energy crisis
MCFly writer Laurence Menhinick goes to an energy discussion and comes away strangely de-energised… Energy – the big thing governing our lives – needs a proper looking at every now and again. So it was with eager anticipation that I … Continue reading
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Interview: UK emissions and energy scenarios
Maria Sharmina, Doctoral Researcher at the Sustainable Consumption Institute and affiliated to Tyndall Centre Manchester, answers questions from MCFly volunteer Kate Matthews, ahead of her “lecture and a curry” on Tuesday 13th March at the University of Manchester Students Union … Continue reading
Posted in academia, Energy, Mitigation, Upcoming Events
Tagged Maria Sharmina, Tyndall Centre
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Grant alert: “Co-operative Community Energy Challenge”
Cheerfully cut and pasted from a press release – The Centre for Sustainable Energy is working with The Co-operative to deliver a new initiative called the Co-operative Community Energy Challenge, which forms an integral new element of The Co-operative’s Clean … Continue reading
Free household energy surveys up for grabs!!
MCFly got this email that we think all readers will be interested in… Carbon Co-op are offering 20 household energy surveys free of charge, enabling residents to get detailed technical information about their home’s energy performance with the aim of … Continue reading
Event: Planning for Low-Carbon Living, Thurs 8 March
This free one-day workshop at Manchester Town Hall looks dead good. It is NOT organised by MCFly. If you want to go, email kirsty.mitchell@cse.org.uk
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