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Our "leaders" are going to keep making empty promises. It makes them feel good. It gets the activists to act like zombie kittens. If you want to have some self-respect and perhaps make a difference (actual facts may vary), then find a functioning group that cares about your skills and knowledge - what you have, what you want. One useful group might be www.climateemergencymanchester.net - you can email them on contact@climateemergencymanchester.net-
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Tag Archives: Tyndall Manchester
Event Report: Changing Institutions and these children that you spit on…
Anything blog about an event with change in the title twice (“Changing Institutions in a Changing Climate”) needs to start with this; Audley Genus is a professor of innovation and technology management at Kingston Business School, Kingston University. He straddles … Continue reading
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Tagged Audley Genus, Tyndall Centre, Tyndall Manchester
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Upcoming seminar at #Manchester Uni on Pacific sea transport…
‘Turning the tide in Oceania: a call for a global network to transition the Pacific to low carbon sea transport’ by Dr. Peter Nuttall, Research Fellow at the Pacific Centre for the Environment and Sustainable Development, University of the South … Continue reading
Upcoming Seminar – “The science and art of scientific advice” Thurs 21 May
Tyndall Manchester and the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research (MIoIR) would like to invite you to attend a seminar by Professor James Wilsdon entitled ‘The science and art of scientific advice’ on Thursday 21st May (room C1, George Begg Building, … Continue reading
Video: Professor Kevin Anderson of #Manchester Tyndall on Typhoon Haiyan and direct #climate impacts in UK
See also this letter in Manchester Evening News yesterday. And this article!
Interview: Prof Elizabeth Shove, ahead of #Manchester lecture on #energy demand, Weds 9th Oct
Professor Elizabeth Shove, Co-Director of DEMAND and Professor of Sociology at Lancaster University, will be giving a seminar on “The Dynamics of Energy, Mobility and Demand” on Wednesday 9th October. Organised by Tyndall Manchester, free and open to the pubic, … Continue reading
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Upcoming Event: Is a low carbon energy future possible? #Manchester Thurs 5th Sept
Public debate on 5 September 2013 (6-8pm) in Renold Building. You are invited to a public debate on how we can meet the challenge of climate change – undoubtedly one of the major problems faced by our nation and the … Continue reading
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The year ahead: Tyndall Manchester (Lessons learned and future goals for #Manchester #climate groups)
Manchester Climate Monthly asked several different groups about the challenges and lessons of 2012 and the goals for 2013. We published a small portion of the answers in the centre-spread of the January issue (which you can see here). Over … Continue reading
Professor Kevin Anderson on steady state economics – “begin immediate and deep reductions in emissions at the same time” #inplaceofgrowth
Professor Kevin Anderson of the Tyndall Centre Manchester has written a foreword to the “In Place of Growth” report that is being launched next Tuesday evening. Professor Anderson, who regularly presents his findings at meetings throughout the city and the … Continue reading
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“Consuming our future”: Interview with Dr Ruth Wood of Tyndall #Manchester
Dr Ruth Wood of the University of Manchester’s Sustainable Consumption Institute is presenting a seminar on Thursday 9th August, from 4pm. It’s called ‘Consuming Our Future: The Climate Change Impact of UK Consumers’. Part of Tyndall Manchester’s new series, it’s … Continue reading
