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Video open letter to #Manchester City Council on 9 actions it can take on #climate #mcrclimateplan

Posted on February 5, 2014 by manchesterclimatemonthly

Please watch this 2 and a half minute film. If you like it, please email it, facebook it, re-blog it, retweet it etc. Three key actions ONE Sign the open letter Sign the open letter (the shortest version of it … Continue reading →

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#Manchester City Council’s 90 “carbon illiterates” and 3 things YOU can do. #mcrclimateplan

Posted on February 3, 2014 by manchesterclimatemonthly

FIRST  Sign the open letter (the shortest version of it is to the right. The full version, with explanations, is here)  and encourage your friends, family and work colleagues to do the same. or else put “sign open letter” and … Continue reading →

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#Manchester City Council going backwards on #climate, councillors kept in the dark…

Posted on February 2, 2014 by manchesterclimatemonthly

Councillors are, with a few notable exceptions, hard-working and concerned individuals.  Most of them spend a lot of their time and energy trying to help Mancunians who are facing all sorts of problems with the benefits system, or planning problems, … Continue reading →

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Cross-post on Barbara Kingsolver, Professor Kevin Anderson and #Manchester City Council

Posted on January 31, 2014 by manchesterclimatemonthly

Below, cross-posted with permission, is Manchester artist Jane Lawson’s latest blog post… I’ve just finished reading Barbara Kingsolver’s The Prodigal Summer (available at all good bookshops) and it got me thinking about home. One of the characters, Lusa, inherits her … Continue reading →

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#Manchester City Council Scrutiny Week February 2014 #democracyfail

Posted on January 30, 2014 by manchesterclimatemonthly

Manchester City Council would never ever do something as straightforward as collate the agendas of the upcoming scrutiny committee meetings all in one place. It might encourage interested parties to turn up, and then where would they be? ‘#democracyfail. If … Continue reading →

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Open letter to #Manchester City Council on its #climate plans, offering concrete ideas and help

Posted on January 29, 2014 by manchesterclimatemonthly

Climate change is a major threat to the health and prosperity of the people of Manchester, over and above the hardship so many are experiencing already. When the City Council’s Executive next meets on Weds 12th February (10am, Manchester Town … Continue reading →

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#Manchester Council #climate plan 2014-7 released #souldestroying

Posted on January 27, 2014 by manchesterclimatemonthly

The bad news just keeps on coming.  On Tuesday 4th February at 2pm, the Neighbourhoods Scrutiny Committee of Manchester City Council will discuss the so-called Climate Change Action Plan 2014/15 – 2016/17. The following Wednesday (12th February) this 40 page … Continue reading →

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Food Poverty in #Manchester. Council going through the motions

Posted on January 27, 2014 by manchesterclimatemonthly

Below find the text of a motion to the next meeting of full Council (Weds 29th Jan, 10am) that just might scrape through.*  It’s motherhood and apple-pie with the obligatory puff for “high tech”**.  If the Council has the same … Continue reading →

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#Manchester City Council has 96 councillors. How many are “carbon literate”? 6.

Posted on January 24, 2014 by manchesterclimatemonthly

Four years after committing to ensure “carbon literacy” for the entire city, Manchester City Council has managed to get only 1/16th of its elected members to undertake a day’s training on the central issue of the 21st century. The information, … Continue reading →

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#Manchester City Council breaks #climate promise number 1627 or so.

Posted on January 8, 2014 by manchesterclimatemonthly

Manchester City Council is (not) at it again. In January 2013 the Neighbourhoods Scrutiny Committee had a discussion of the “Certain Future” (Manchester Climate Change Action Plan ‘refresh’.  MCFly’s editor was there, which made the conversation a little bit more … Continue reading →

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