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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: Event reports
Event report: Didsbury Dinners Food Trail
We asked Amanda Woodvine of Didsbury Dinners to write up an account of how last weekend’s “Food Trail” events went. Highlights from Didsbury’s first celebration of local, seasonal food We hope that some of you turned out to enjoy Didsbury … Continue reading
Posted in Event reports, Food
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Event Report: Will retrofit guinea-pigs fly? They had better, or else wfio (!)… #Green Deal #Manchester
Attention Conservation Notice: A short account of a meeting at Manchester Town Hall for people interested in lowering energy bills, saving carbon and generally taking (baby) steps on the journey to Greater Manchester’s climate change goals. Followed by a blow-by-blow … Continue reading
Posted in AGMA, Energy, Event reports, GM Climate Strategy
Tagged carbon coop, Community Green Deal, Environment Commission, Green Deal, urbed
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Event Report:“Meet the Co-operatives” at Unicorn Grocery, Chorlton #Manchester
70 people, 9 co-operatives, one inspiring evening. MCFly co-editor Marc Hudson reports. Many MCFly readers will know Unicorn Grocery, a Workers’ Co-op in Chorlton (and if you don’t, visit their website, then their store!). This is the fourth “Meet the…” … Continue reading
Event Report: Business, climate, schmoozing at 24 floors above #Manchester
The latest “North West Sustainable Business Quaterly” meeting (see our review of the last one) has once again failed to surprise; efficiently delivered speeches, a not-too-long question session, small table discussions followed by networking. All washed down with good food … Continue reading
Event Report: Uncivilised Festival 2012
by Richard Simpson (pseudonym), 6th September 2012 “… The beauty of modern Man is not in the persons but in the Disastrous rhythm, the heavy and mobile masses, the dance of the Dream-led masses down the dark mountain.” Robinson Jeffers, … Continue reading
Batty about bats in #Manchester – echolocation, biodiversity and climate change
MCFly volunteer Sarah Irving learns about bats in one of Manchester’s loveliest parks. It’s no shock when an outdoor event in Manchester gets rained off. But at least we got to come face-to-face with a pipistrelle, Britain’s commonest bat; in … Continue reading
Posted in Biodiversity, Event reports
Tagged bats, Friends of Platt Fields Park, South Lancashire Bat Group
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Technology and democracy and pot holes: “Young Rewired State”
A group of young (and that includes pre-teen) people came together in Manchester last week to sharpen their “coding” skills.(1) Held at Madlab, it was part of a bigger project called “Young Rewired State”(2). One of the projects that came … Continue reading
Posted in Event reports, Interview, Transport
Tagged Bump-o-Matic, Dr Yuwei Lin, Madlab, Young Rewired State
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Event report: Tyndall seminar – when will we stop pretending?
MCFly co-editor Marc Hudson attends (yet) another informative seminar about climate change, but wonders how long we will go on like this… There was nothing intrinsically wrong with the latest Tyndall seminar, held on Thursday 8th August. Covering recent research … Continue reading
Event Report: ‘share something interesting in five minutes’ #smc_mcr
Unplugging themselves from their blueteeth and tearing themselves away from their tablets, a mix of Manchester’s digerati met tonight at a Northern Quarter watering-hole, for the latest in a long line of informal “social media” gatherings. Green campaigners who want … Continue reading
#Manchester Friends of the Earth “Powering the Future” event: (Damian) Cross post
A couple of weeks ago Manchester Friends of the Earth* held a public meeting with lots of knowledgeable speakers and a question and answer session. FoE member Damian Cross very promptly put up an event report, which we’ve only just … Continue reading
Posted in Campaign Update, Energy, Event reports
Tagged Manchester Friends of the Earth, Meetings Charter
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