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#Manchester City Council refusing to release environmental minutes (letter)

Posted on February 20, 2017 by manchesterclimatemonthly

On Saturday 18th February, the Manchester Evening News kindly published the following letter. Manchester City Council has (or had) an “Environmental Strategy Programme Board” of bureaucrats. Its job is/was to turn all the fine words about environment and climate change … Continue reading →

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Manchester City Council ignores successful carbon training scheme

Posted on February 6, 2017 by manchesterclimatemonthly

Manchester City Council has been promising to get its 96 councillors carbon literate for years now. Never manages it of course. Check out this video of a councillor complaining in mid- 2014 about what an omnishambles the whole process was. … Continue reading →

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Richard Leese + Exec for Environment are not ‘carbon literate’ – #Manchester #climate debacle

Posted on February 2, 2017 by manchesterclimatemonthly

In 2012 the leader of Manchester City Council, Richard Leese, spoke at the launch the ‘carbon literacy’ project at the Arndale Centre. In 2016 the party he leads in Manchester, which holds 95 of the 96 council seats, went to … Continue reading →

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Only 1 out of #Manchester City Council’s 10 ‘Strategic Managers’ is carbon literate

Posted on February 1, 2017 by manchesterclimatemonthly

The Manchester Climate Change Action Plan of 2009 called for everyone who lives, works or studies in Manchester to have had a day’s ‘carbon literacy training’ by the end of… 2013. Manchester City Council promised to take a leadership role … Continue reading →

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#Manchester City Council delivers ZERO carbon literacy training since June 2016, despite election promises

Posted on January 31, 2017 by manchesterclimatemonthly

Manchester City Council made only two, failed, attempts to organise carbon literacy training for its own councillors in the second half of 2016. This is despite a firm pre-council-elections promise that they would ‘roll out training.” In response to a … Continue reading →

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#Manchester City Council tops the UK league! In PR staff… How many are carbon literate? #FOIA

Posted on January 24, 2017 by manchesterclimatemonthly

Manchester City Council has 77 PR, communications and marketing positions.  That is the most of any council in the country.  So, I sent this Freedom of Information Act request five minutes ago. Dear Sir/Madam, I just read in that Manchester … Continue reading →

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Council long-listed for green energy award!! Er, #Nottingham Council…also Carbon Coop!

Posted on January 18, 2017 by manchesterclimatemonthly

Manchester’s Carbon Co-op has been long-listed for the presitgous Ashden Awards. According to the website – “The Awards celebrate global sustainable energy leaders and this year’s longlist ranges from a Malaysian architectural practice specialising in passive design to a UK … Continue reading →

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Futile letter trying to shame #Manchester City Council into #climate action

Posted on January 17, 2017 by manchesterclimatemonthly

This letter got published in the Manchester Evening News on Saturday 14th  January. Why futile?  Because a) without a groundswell of people who are willing and able to apply sustained and diverse pressure, any bureaucracy will just shrug and say … Continue reading →

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Urgent – please ask questions on #climate to Neighbourhoods & Environment Scrutiny members #Manchester

Posted on December 28, 2016 by manchesterclimatemonthly

Do you care about climate change and Manchester? Do you live or work in any of the following wards – Ancoats and Clayton, Bradford, Burnage, Charlestown, Cheetham,  Chorlton Park, City Centre, Crumpsall  Didsbury West,  Gorton North, Higher Blackley, Hulme,  Levenshulme, … Continue reading →

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Another of those #Manchester- China links…

Posted on December 27, 2016 by manchesterclimatemonthly

Eerie, innit? “All candidates in the party and government are selected and appointed by their supervisors and predecessors, which means that they need not be answerable to social actors or the public but are accountable to their supervisors within the … Continue reading →

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