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: Event reports
Event Report: First step on the journey to a green, fair and beyond-growth #Manchester
June 25th: A room fizzing of “cautious optimism”, new friendships forming. and flipcharts filling with good ideas; tonight in a room in Central Manchester the first steps were taken on a journey that can lead to a greener, fairer and … Continue reading
Posted in Event reports, volunteer opportunity
Tagged post-growth Manchester, steady-state manchester
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Event Report: A game of one half – witnessed
Attention Conservation Notice: MCFly co-editor Marc Hudson makes it half-way through a day-long academic seminar about climate change and social movements before finally losing his rag and invoking the law of two feet. Not of interest to casual readers. Or … Continue reading
Posted in academia, Democratic deficit, Event reports
Tagged academics can't help it – or us, climate camp, death by powerpoint, Dunning-Kruger, ego-fodder, ESRC, for the record – the fossil record, get your bloody gameface on, I hate it how often my wife is right and I am wrong, I loved the smell of burning bridges in the morning, internal muppetry, Irony Police, Ivory Towerers, jumps the shark, law of two feet, muppetry of the highest order, not good enough, old enough to leave when it jumps the shark, sage on the stage, screw politeness, sunk costs, there's no there there, Transitions, zuhanden, Zygmunt Bauman
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Event Report: Kevin Anderson tells it like it is; and it’s not pretty.
Real Clothes for the Emperor– Facing the challenges of climate change By Professor Kevin Anderson, 21 June 2012, George Begg Building, University of Manchester Report by Laurence Menhinick If invited to one of Professor Anderson’s lecture by a mate, press … Continue reading
Posted in academia, education, Event reports
Tagged #doomed, #titanicgonedoneandhiticebergalready, #wearetoast, Kevin Anderson, Tyndall Centre
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Economy Scrutiny Committee: Green Skills and Jobs workshop #Manchester
MCFly writer Laurence Menhinick attended the Wednesday June 20th Economy Scrutiny Committee meeting [see brief report here. Full report now delayed to Saturday]. She participated in the workshop on “Green Skills and Jobs.” If you were also in the workshop, … Continue reading
Event Report: Skype-ing down to Rio* from #Manchester
Technological failure was overcome by social success last night at a cafe in Whalley Range, when Manchester-based people tried to talk with environmental activists gathered in Rio de Janeiro for the “Rio +20 Earth Summit”. The event – a gathering … Continue reading
Event Report: What If… Manchester was as sustainable as Havana?
MCFly co-editor Arwa Aburawa has mixed feelings about the “What if… Manchester was as sustainable as Havana?” event at the Manchester Museum on Thursday 14th June. First to speak was Nadine Andrews of the Transition Network. She started off by … Continue reading
Posted in Event reports
Tagged ask the right questions, Cuba, Emily Morris, Food, food security, Kevin Anderson, Liz Postlethwaite, Nadine Andrews
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Event Report: “Business as Usual?” North West Sustainable Business Quarterly
It’s not every day you get to eat free grub while surveying Manchester from 24 floors up. For free! MCFly co-editor Marc Hudson feels the lure of the dark side… Tonight I attended the latest “North West Sustainable Business Quarterly,” … Continue reading
A tale of two ironies – a “forum” about #Manchester and its sustainability
Attention Conservation Notice: First the two ironies, then some barely-controlled vitriol, about the cities@manchester event held tonight. Of interest primarily to people who were there, or who like to watch bridges burn to their foundations and then watch the foundations … Continue reading
Posted in academia, AGMA, Democratic deficit, Event reports, Manchester City Council
Tagged CLES, did you not get the memo that trickledown is dead?, governance, I can't believe it's not better, if this is radical thinking we are toast, steady state and more aviation infrastructure are NOT compatible, urbed
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Event Report: Virtual Migrants
MCFly co-editor Marc Hudson went to an art performance and came away thinking “where else but in South Manchester would you hear a Zimbabwean, an Iranian, a Barbadoan and a Mancunian chewing the fat about the twenty-first century?”* Virtual Migrants … Continue reading
Event Report: Transforming Manchester, or “The thin veneer of climate governance”
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
Posted in academia, Adaptation, Event reports
Tagged cities@manchester, Dr Hannah Knox, Dr Jeremy Carter, Ecocities, Transforming Manchester
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