Category Archives: Upcoming Events

Event: Road from Wigan Pier Sat 6th Feb. Wigan.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-road-from-wigan-pier-how-can-we-shape-our-northern-local-economies-tickets-19207996635   THE POLITICAL IDEA OF A NORTHERN POWERHOUSE IS GROWING BUT WHAT IS ITS PURPOSE? WHAT’S OUR RESPONSE? HOW DO WE BENEFIT? How can we shape our local Northern economics using grassroots projects, networks and ideas to inspire collective … Continue reading

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Carbon Coop social,”retrofit stories” Sat Jan 30th

Carbon Co-op January Social Come and join us for brunch at Honest Coffee, an exciting new creative space in Salford. WHEN: 10:30am – 1pm, Sat 30th Jan WHERE: Honest Coffee, 77-79 Chapel Street Salford, M3 5BZ COST: Members FREE, Non-Members … Continue reading

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Upcoming event:‘Complex Infrastructure Systems’ Thurs 21st Jan #Manchester

Free event, no booking required. Tyndall seminars almost always v. interesting!! Tyndall Manchester would like to invite you to attend the next talk in our seminar series ‘Complex Infrastructure Systems: science and practice’ by Professor Liz Varga, on Thursday 21st … Continue reading

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Free online course abt #climate change science ‘n’ solutions

via the University of Exeter.   H/t Tracy.

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Upcoming Event: Carbon Co-op social 11th Dec #Manchester

Carbon Co-op Social – Friday 11th December 2015 Meet other members, socialise, discuss FREE, 6.30-9pm, Friday 11th December 2015 Back room, The Britons Protection, 50 Great Bridgewater Street Manchester M1 5LE BOOK HERE: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/carbon-co-op-social-tickets-19511162412 This December’s social will be in … Continue reading

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Predictions about the #climate rally in #Manchester today

As a trainee (social) scientist, I’m gonna make some predictions about the climate rally today. Based on my theories that the climate movement is an exemplar of the Smugosphere – that place where we do things because we can and … Continue reading

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Psychology and #climate seminar in #Manchester, Tues 24th November

Tues 24 Nov 2 – 3.30pm John Dalton East, 423 No need to book, just turn up. http://www.business.mmu.ac.uk/seeg/seeg-meetings.php Psychosocial processes involved in influencing pro-environmental decision-making in the organisation: an individual-level interpretative phenomenological analysis There is a deeply troubling dissonance between … Continue reading

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Upcoming Play: “Baked Alaska” #climate #Manchester Tues 10th November

Tue 10 Nov: Baked Alaska – Time To Change The Temperature, Old Trafford An island in the South Pacific has a problem. It’s hollow. Anxiety levels are rising in a North American boardroom. Eve’s garden is bursting with next door’s … Continue reading

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Upcoming: Another seminar about #Paris #Manchester Monday 23rd Nov #Tyndall

Adequacy and Equity under Neoliberal Climate Governance: Assessing the Paris Moment What are the prospects for the Paris climate change negotiations? Based on the new book Power in a Warming World (MIT Press, September), this talk reviews Paris and previous … Continue reading

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Upcoming Event: Circular Economy won’t work… unless… #Manchester 11th November

poster seminar abstract Wednesday 11th November, 2.30 to 3.30pm Room 10.05,  10th Floor, MBS Harold Hankins Building [You have to go via the Manchester Business School entrance, and then schlepp through a maze of corridors…] A circular economy won’t work unless…… … Continue reading

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