Category Archives: Low Carbon Culture

Council gives HOME £1.3m per year – demands NO low carbon culture action.

Posted on December 18, 2019 by

Exclusive!  Thanks to a Freedom of Information Act request, Manchester Climate Monthly can now revealed details of all requests from the City Council to the arts organisation HOME asking it to do more to create a “low carbon culture.”  Brace … Continue reading →

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Congrats @Home_Mcr bosses- poster children for #Manchester #greenwash at its most egregious

Posted on November 19, 2019 by

Let’s all give a big round of applause and a vote of thanks to the bosses of HOME, Manchester arts cinema etc.  In one easy move they’ve managed to- Shred the (admittedly limited) credibility of the Manchester Culture Awards Shred … Continue reading →

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Does #Manchester “Low Carbon Culture” Council support the #ClimateStrike?

Posted on February 13, 2019 by

On Friday thousands of children in the UK will go on strike from school because their parents are doing (less than) nothing about climate change, condemning them to an at-best grim future.  Ten years ago Manchester City Council said it … Continue reading →

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The mayor’s green summit – what to expect in the coming weeks, months, years. #Manchester #climate

Posted on February 15, 2018 by

In his  March 2017 manifesto for the Mayoral election, Andy Burnham promised to hold an environmental summit ‘within a year’ of being elected.  Originally scheduled for late 2017, there was “slippage” and the summit is now going to happen in … Continue reading →

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Here comes the “2050” crapola. Be happy for it. #Manchester #climate

Posted on February 20, 2016 by

The future is here, and we are avoiding it. 2020 used to be the target year, by which we would have done x and y and z. Sadly, we didn’t do those things. A mix of complacency, distraction, stupidity and … Continue reading →

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NEWSFLASH: Low Carbon Hub meetings now open to the public #Manchester #democracy

Posted on January 21, 2016 by

Some good news.  In a welcome and sensible move, the meetings of the Greater Manchester Low Carbon Hub are now (re)-opened to the public. That does NOT mean anyone can go along and say anything they like (“a public meeting”), … Continue reading →

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Letter in #Manchester Evening News on #climate change (again)

Posted on November 5, 2015 by

Thank you for your article (MEN 3rd November “Region’s council bosses renew push to reduce carbon emissions in Greater Manchester”) on the  “plan” to reduce Greater Manchester’s CO2 emissions by over 5 million tonnes between 2012 and 2020. The report … Continue reading →

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#Manchester Airport misses #climate target, comically inept spin ensues. Write to your councillor #democracy

Posted on September 28, 2015 by

Back in the heady Big Promise days of 2009/2010, some bright spark came up with the idea that the ground operations of Manchester Airport (lighting, power for the x-ray machines etc but not the actions of the big metal birds … Continue reading →

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#Manchester #climate Steering Group questions, if you can be bothered a) going and b) staying awake

Posted on July 7, 2015 by

Tonight the ‘Steering’ ‘Group’ (of what??) for the Manchester Climate Change Action Plan holds its annual general meeting.  Which is happening instead of the stakeholder conference (with elections) that it is SUPPOSED to be holding.  It will have a keynote … Continue reading →

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#Manchester Councillor proud of city’s record. Finds out emissions up. Still proud.

Posted on December 31, 2014 by

It began, as so many things do these days, with a tweet. Rebecca Moore, the newest councillor [Labour (of course)] for Withington, proclaimed that it was a Good Thing more people don’t vote Green. Just for laffs (or “shits and … Continue reading →

Posted in Democratic deficit, Low Carbon Culture, Manchester City Council | 3 Comments