Email Bulletin #18 Sunday October 11th, 2009 If You Want

Email Bulletin #18 Sunday October 11th, 2009 If you want to subscribe, send an email to [email protected] Dear all, another email bulletin from Manchester Climate Fortnightly. Next full newsletter will be out Saturday 17th October, with the usual mix of upcoming events, council news, “Coping with Copenhagen” etc. There's a quick survey that the Call to Real Action group has devised, in order to get you thinking about your “2020 vision of a fair and climate-safe Manchester.” Answers from the survey which you can fill in online via this link- http://calltorealaction.wordpress.com/2009/09/02/2020-vision-for-a-fair-climate-safemanchester/- will be used to help write C2RA's Alternative Action Plan. Dates for your diary Saturday 17th October 10 to 4pm Climate Action Now conference organised by the Stop Climate Chaos coalition and Co-op. THIS IS NOW FREE. IF YOU HAVE ALREADY BOUGHT A TICKET, YOU WILL GET A REFUND. http://climateactionnow.eventbrite.com/ Weds 21st October from 7pm Manchester's Climate Change Action Plan Your chance to quiz Richard Sharland, the City Council's Director of Environmental Strategy, about the Climate Change Action Plan. Followed by networking, brainstorming and announcements. Friends Meeting House, 6 Mount St website http://www.manchesterclimateforum.org.uk/oct21.html Facebook event- http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=173021222436 Best wishes Marc Hudson, co-editor of Manchester Climate Fortnightly In this bulletinBangokok recriminations Photo Competetion On the MCFly blog Upcoming Events

Bangkok recriminations From Richard Black, BBC correspondent “The latest round of UN climate talks in Bangkok has ended with deep divisions over the shape of a new global treaty. Developing countries want an extension of the Kyoto Protocol; but developed nations are arguing for a completely new agreement. Poorer countries and environment groups accuse the west of lacking ambition.”

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8298553.stm

Photo competition If a picture paints a thousands words... then send your message to World Leaders meeting in Copenhagen about Climate Change using just a picture. We are inviting people to get creative with their cameras and take a picture that sends a clear message that now is the time to act. Join our Flickr group and post your entry on: http://www.flickr.com/groups/climate-action-now The top 10 will be displayed at Climate Action Now event on Saturday 17th October at New Century Hall, Manchester.

On the MCFly blog Council Meeting at which 10:10 commitment was agreed http://manchesterclimatefortnightly.blogspot.com/2009/10/council-meeting-october-7.html Oxfam's “how to lobby training” (rather good!) http://manchesterclimatefortnightly.blogspot.com/2009/10/making-positive-nuisance-of-yerself.html Honesty versus the meteorite http://manchesterclimatefortnightly.blogspot.com/2009/10/honesty-versus-meteorite.html coming soon- reports from some of the Tory Conference fringe events, and MCFly's account of the Council's mini-conference.

Upcoming events Mon 12 City Council hosting a mini-conference at the Town Hall around the Climate Change Action Plan. Full! Tues 13 Action for Sustainable Living intro, St Wilfrid's Entreprise Centre, Royce Road, Hulme http://www.afsl.org.uk/node/935 Tues 13, 7pm: Friends of the Earth full group meeting, Green Fish Resource Centre, 46-50 Oldham St. http://www.manchesterfoe.org.uk Thurs 15 10.30 to 12.30 Energy Saving Trust Green Communities Launch, Palace Hotel, Oxford Road, Manchester, M60 7HA Thurs 15, 10am - 12.30pm Transition Towns in the City Bridge 5 Mill Ancoats. To book your place please ring Corrina on 0161 273 1736 Sat 17 10am - 4pm Climate Action Now conference at New Century House free http://www.climateactionnow.eventbrite.com [email protected] Mon 19 Young people and Climate Change –Oxfam’s Active Global Citizenship Conference http://www.en4m.org.uk/?q=node/141gg7 Weds 21, 7pm The Climate Change Action Plan(s) With speakers from the Council and Call to Real Action. Followed by Q and A, brainstorming & networking Friends Meeting House, 6 Mount St http://www.manchesterclimateforum.org.uk Sat 24, 9.30am - 5pm Feeding Manchester 2. Discussions around practical ways of making Greater Manchester's food system more sustainable. The event is for a relatively small number of individuals and group. Email [email protected] for a booking form. £10 to cover lunch etc Sunday 25, Oxjam Manchester Takeover http://www.oxjammanchester.org Mon 26, 5.30 to 7.30pm Action for Sustainable Living Volunteer Social Sand Bar, 120 Grosvenor Street http://www.afsl.org.uk/node/1727 Tues 27, 7.15pm "Climate Change, Copenhagen and the Economy" Campaign against Climate Change, Friends Meeting House Sat 31 Friends of the Earth Halloween Trick or Treat lobby of MPs http://www.foe.co.uk/community/news/trick_or_treat_21351.html