Category Archives: Event reports

Event report: “Bio-hacking” @madlabuk, a nest of nesta innovators #DIYBIO

Posted on February 28, 2013 by manchesterclimatemonthly

Madlab is this amazingly cool space in the Northern Quarter where coders and hackers* and people who just want to muck about with technology (information, bio) get together and hangout and exchange ideas and enthusiasm. A bit like bacteria swapping … Continue reading →

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Event Report: Ragged University on #food, #Manchester, #climate change and, yes, marijuana

Posted on February 20, 2013 by manchesterclimatemonthly

Two excellent presentations about economics and trees, food and the future, by Judith Emanuel and Jules Bagnoli at a Northern Quarter pub this evening were highly entertaining… Ragged University is “an attempt to think about and explain ideas in an … Continue reading →

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Crosspost: #Manchester Friends of the Earth meeting on “how ethical is your shopping basket”

Posted on February 16, 2013 by manchesterclimatemonthly

Manchester Friends of the Earth has a “full-group” public meeting on the second Tuesday of every month, at the Greenfish Resource Centre on Oldham St. Here’s a report, by one of the FoE co-ordinators, on the most recent meeting. Report … Continue reading →

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Event Report: “Creativity, energy and climate change shared learning workshop” 8-9 Feb, #Manchester

Posted on February 12, 2013 by manchesterclimatemonthly

Roger Griffiths writes about a wander through time and place during a recent “Climate and Creativity shared learning” event in Manchester. A twenty minute walk along the Ashton Canal from Piccadilly Station takes you past several old mills.  These were … Continue reading →

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Event Report: “What will a Low Carbon #Manchester look like?”

Posted on January 17, 2013 by manchesterclimatemonthly

MCFly reporter Laurence Menhinick went to a recent event organised by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers,  with speaker Becca Warren (CEng MCIBSE, Low Carbon and Building Energy specialist)- 15 January 2013, at Manchester Metropolitan University Credit is due to Ms. … Continue reading →

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Event Report: #Manchester Friends of the Earth and Action for Sustainable Living AGMs

Posted on December 7, 2012 by manchesterclimatemonthly

It’s that time of year – eggnog, AGMs and enforced jollity. Tuesday night saw 25 or so people attend the Manchester Friends of the Earth do at the Angel pub near the new whizz-bang “green” Co-op building (insert dubious spatial … Continue reading →

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Event Report & Campaign Advice: Top tips on how to lobby by #Manchester MP

Posted on December 1, 2012 by manchesterclimatemonthly

John Leech, Liberal Democrat MP for Manchester Withington, gave “top tips” about lobbying to climate activists in late November, at an activist training organised by Stop Climate Chaos (1) in Manchester.  Here’s what we scribbled down – Never miss an … Continue reading →

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Event Report: Aviation Seminar in #Manchester inadvertantly proves point about technology, signal-to-noise ratio, inertia and death.

Posted on November 29, 2012 by manchesterclimatemonthly

Highly intelligent people gathered today at the University of Manchester to discuss imminent peril to the planet from greenhouse gas emissions. In scenes that no satirist would dare to make up, the assembled throng of professors, PhDs and post-graduates then … Continue reading →

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Event Report & Upcoming Event: #Manchester Friends of the Earth mingler and AGM…

Posted on November 26, 2012 by manchesterclimatemonthly

Attention Conservation Notice: Grudging and belated admiration for Friends of the Earth’s innovation in its formatting of a meeting, and plug for its upcoming AGM and pub grub. Manchester Friends of the Earth holds monthly public meetings. We even made … Continue reading →

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Event Report: “Peddling pedalling the Dutch way” – #cycling in #Manchester

Posted on November 25, 2012 by manchesterclimatemonthly

MCFly reporter Roger Bysouth attended the recent two-day cycling event, and sent us this.  For another view, see madcyclelanesofmanchester.blogspot.co.uk.. Update: all the presentations are now available here. The Dutch have been in our City evangelising about cycling. Alleluia. They’ve recently … Continue reading →

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