Email Bulletin 21

Email Bulletin #21 November 8, 2009 If you want to (un)subscribe, send an email to [email protected] Dear all, another email bulletin from Manchester Climate Fortnightly. Next full newsletter will be out Sunday 15th November, with news of the Climate Change Action Plan, the Call to Real Action launch event (November 30), other council news, (more on Bury Council's unsuccessful-thanks-to-the-Toriesattempt to sign up to the 10:10 campaign) “Coping with Copenhagen” and the big ol' calendar we always run. In this bulletin: Dates for Your Diary Bingo Upcoming events Copenhagen Read All About it MCFly blog As ever, we're keen to hear your news and your views. Best wishes Marc Hudson and Arwa Aburawa

Dates for your diary Monday November 30 Call to Real Action, Nexus Arts Cafe, Dale St. Music, poets, climate change policy, mingling, nibbles. Friday December 4 Friends of the Earth AGM and social. More details to follow. Tuesday December 8, “After the Marching, now what?” Manchester Climate Forum event, with speakers from Friends of the Earth, Call to Real Action and Manchester Climate Action. Lots of brainstorming, mingling and networking too. Friends Meeting House, 7pm Weds December 16 Manchester Climate Forum/Manchester Climate Fortnightly Xmas Drinks. Upstairs at Odder Bar, Oxford Rd (opposite the BBC) Bingo Cards! Manchester Climate Fortnightly has produced bingo cards to make jargon-riddled meetings go

quicker. Or at least to help you stay awake. You can download them herehttp://www.manchesterclimatefortnightly.info/bingo.html Upcoming events Mon 9, 4.30 to 8.30pm Green/Ethical Business Showcase Cube 113-15 Portland St. NOW FULL! www.gaeia.co.uk Tues 10, 2pm Communities and Neighbourhoods Overview and Scrutiny Committee Committee Room 11 Level 1, Town Hall Why go? Well- here's why.... Report: 7 Manchester Airport Carbon Emissions The Committee will receive a presentation for item 7 on Manchester Airport Carbon Emissions. 9. Support for Cycling as a Means of Transport in Manchester Report of the Head of Highways Services This report provides details of the provisions put in place by Manchester City Council to promote cycling as a mode of transport. Members are invited to comment on the issues they would like to see given particular attention. Tues 10 6pm to 8pm MSSA lecture on Sustainability, by Alex Solk, Rm 303 Chatham Building, MMU. Free Tues 10, 7pm: Friends of the Earth full group meeting, Green Fish Resource Centre, 46-50 Oldham St. http://www.manchesterfoe.org.uk Tues 10, 7.15pm: Campaign against Climate Change meeting, Friends Meeting House. 6 Mount St Weds 11, 7.30-9.30pm *Students and career choices* “When you go for job interviews, you may well be asked about your strategic thinking about a workforce facing food shortages, floods, severe weather. Will you be expected to be able to cost in the carbon costs of a transaction? Will you be a leader and innovator? Come and discuss with:” With North West TUC Regional Secretary, Alan Manning. Committee Room 3, Town Hall, Albert Square Thursday 12, 7pm Green Party meeting, Friends Meeting House http://www.manchestergreenparty.org.uk Thursday 12, 7.30pm Manchester Climate Action meeting 7.30pm The Bowling Green Pub, M13 6NZ [email protected] Fri 13, 10 to 4pm "Future economic lives: How can economic development respond to the challenge of low carbon future?" £200/£105 (excl VAT) www.cles.org.uk Mon 16, 6 to 9pm Faith Network 4 Manchester conference "Faith and the Environment." Keynote speeches from the major faiths' representatives and then discussion. Bridge 5 Mill, Ancoats www.cn4m.net/node/1798 Weds 18 Focus on Energy exhibition and showing of “the Age of Stupid” Manchester University's Sustainability Team is running an exhibition in University Place, on Wednesday 18 November. The exhibition will focus on energy. It will include data on energy use, both at the University and nationally, highlighting how and where changes can be made to reduce our carbon footprint. It will also feature research around the University including work on

renewable energy sources, electric vehicles, energy infrastructure and more. The exhibition will run from 10.00 am to 2.00 pm and will be followed at 4.30 pm by a showing of the film “Age of Stupid”, featuring Pete Postlethwaite, in theatre A in University Place.

http://www.sustainability.manchester.ac.uk/campus/energy Weds 18 Council Executive agrees Climate Change Action Plan. Go watch history being made at Manchester Town Hall Weds 18 7pm "Coping with Copenhagen" + "Manchester's Plan"? Manchester Climate Forum meeting at Friends Meeting House, 6 Mount St. www.manchesterclimateforum.org.uk Copenhagen The US, EU and other major players, have said there will be no global deal at Copenhagen. It may be a year (or more) before any successor to the Kyoto Protocol is signed. The last talks, in Barcelona, basically broke down, as is widely reported. Where this leaves the “strategy” of marching in London and demonstrating in Copenhagen, MCFly's editors are not really sure... http://copingwithcopenhagen.wordpress.com Read All About It Excellent article about reasons people don't like to think about climate change (it reminds them of their own mortality) herehttp://www.ecologyandsociety.org/articles/2849.html On the MCFly blog Environment Commission meeting number 5 http://manchesterclimatefortnightly.blogspot.com/2009/11/environment-commission-meeting5.html Soon on the blogSimon Retallack's seminar at the Sustainable Consumption Institute The Tyndall on the Northwest and Aviation Emission allocations. Lost Plot Found...