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: Kevin Anderson on informed hope Trumping despair…
The tl:dr. Professor Kevin Anderson, one of the most plain-spoken and photogenic* climate scientists on the planet still isn’t willing to say that we are definitely doomed. Graphs and well-aimed barbs at policy-makers and climate scientists ensued…. [* he’s a bloke, … Continue reading
Event Report: UCU #climate conference, #Manchester
So, “The Role of Education Institutions in tackling climate change”, a one day free (as a starving (cough, cough) PhD student, currently my favourite word) UK conference here in unseasonably sunny Manchester. Started on time, with some Spartism which we … Continue reading
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Theatre Review: “Climate of Fear”
Climate change is a toxic subject for theatre. It’s not going to bring in large audiences, star performers or supply a catchy show name to put up in lights. More likely, it will further whiten and age the crowd, sprinkling … Continue reading
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Repost: Carbon Co-op AGM event report #Manchester
Congrats to Carbon Co-op for hosting an interesting AGM, and for getting an informative post about it (see below) up asap for those who could not be there. This should be standard operating procedure of course, but too rarely is… … Continue reading
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The wheels fell off long ago. #Manchester#climate “strategy” and silences
The tl:dr – At a recent “Strategy” event for Manchester’s climate-y future, there’s lots of chest-beating and hand-wringing about Engagement. Nothing substantive will be done. Post ends with loads of implementable ideas about youth engagement; which won’t happen. Engagement? It’s … Continue reading
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Fetish night at Bruntwood: sustainability gets VERY interesting. #Manchester #climate
Not that kind of fetish (sorry for the clickbaiting). I mean the original, anthropological meaning of “fetish” – a god that we create, then forget that we created as we come to worship it. That kind of fetish was being … Continue reading
Re-post: Pomona Island Planning Hearing Report Back
Reposted from Hulme Green Party website. Pomona Island Planning Hearing Report Back Trafford Council Planning Committee gave planning permission for 2 blocks of flats on Pomona Island on Thursday evening (12th November). The site has not been in use for … Continue reading
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Explaining #climate change in a #Manchester pub – of duvets, sailing ships and coal
Last night I got to do a ten minute “what is my research about” spiel at “PhD in the Pub.” It was followed by a slightly-less-than-20-minute q and a session (because I ‘donated’ some time from that to having folks … Continue reading
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Steady State #Manchester on that “Future Cities Farce… sorry FORUM”
There was a truly diabolical wrist-slasher of an event at the beginning of last week called a “Future Cities Forum”. It was the kind of forum where seven white people (six men and one woman) stand at the front and … Continue reading
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No future, for you and me. Or #Manchester, frankly.
Watch this video. It will put you in the mood. Fifty people met (let’s get the demographics out the way; 2/3rds male, mostly 40+ professionals and retireds. A grand total of two people of colour. “Pale, male and stale” a … Continue reading
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