Email Bulletin Oct 24

Email Bulletin #20, October 25 2009 Dear all here's the latest email bulletin. The next full MCFly comes out on Sunday 1st November, and will contain all the usual features. ALSO, we are “going tabloid”, with a separate A4 landscape and folded-into-three-columns-and-printed-oncoloured-paper edition specifically designed for putting in leaflet racks in shops and clubs and so forth. If you can help distribute this, please get in touch. You can come collect a wodge for distribution at the “Meet the Editors lunch” on Tuesday 3rd November, from 12 to 2 at Nexus Cafe, Dale St. In this email bulletin: On the blog Read all about it What's coming up As ever, your comments and suggestions on MCFly very welcome, to [email protected] Marc Hudson and Arwa Aburawa

On the blog On the CN4M conference http://manchesterclimatefortnightly.blogspot.com/2009/10/razing-game.html On Richard Sharland at the Manchester Climate Forum event. http://manchesterclimatefortnightly.blogspot.com/2009/10/q-and-with-richard-sharland.html Local food in Manchester http://manchesterclimatefortnightly.blogspot.com/2009/10/local-food-in-manchester.html On the Climate Action Now conference http://manchesterclimatefortnightly.blogspot.com/2009/10/climate-action-now-conference.html

Read all about it There's an interesting analysis of the Copenhagen Climate Conference by Lavanya Rajamani The “Cloud” over the Climate Negotiations: From Bangkok to Copenhagen and Beyond. http://indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/content/the-%E2%80%9Ccloud%E2%80%9D-over-climatenegotiations-bangkok-copenhagen-and-beyond

A culture of neglect: Climate discourse anddisabled people http://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/article/viewArticle/173 Is It Too Late to Prevent Catastrophic Climate Change? http://www.clivehamilton.net.au/cms/index.php?page=articles “Recent analysis of carbon budgets shows that the timing and scale of emission reductions needed to avert dangerous climate change are well beyond any national policy proposals or anticipated international agreement. There have been two alarming developments in recent years. First, climate scientists are reporting that the scale of damages associated with warming of 2°C is much worse than previously believed, suggesting that more stringent emission cuts are essential. Secondly, global growth in greenhouse gas emissions is much higher than anticipated a few years ago and the world is now on a warming path that is worse than the worst-case scenario. Rather than decarbonising, the world is carbonising at an unprecedented rate.”

What's coming up Mon 26, 5.30 to 7.30pm Action for Sustainable Living Volunteer Social Sand Bar, 120 Grosvenor Street www.afsl.org.uk/node/1727 Mon 26, 6:30pm - 9:30pm, The next Manchester Permaculture event will be a cider making workshop! We've got a home brewer coming from near Manchester to talk a bit about cider brewing, and we are also going to juice some apples using a crusher and apple press. We'll be at the Hulme Centre, just behind Hulme Community Garden Centre (map) . This event is joint with Abundance Manchester who will be donating the apples. Half the apple juice will go to community groups in Manchester, and the rest is for you to take home and try some home brewing (hopefully we'll have enough!). Or one of us could brew it at home to be used for another MPN event? If you interested in coming please reply to me ([email protected]) so that I can get an idea of numbers. Schedule: I'm not even going to try and put a time to whats going to happen and when, but hopefully Matt Veasey will give a talk about home brewing at around 7pm, with apple juicing already starting beforehand. We can aim to eat at 7:30, and do more juicing later on, then share out the juice! What to bring: • • • •

Food to share A clean bottle if you want to take some apple juice away to brew at home Knives and chopping boards - the more people that can chop, the more juice we'll get! :) Anything else usefull: apples, or some examples of home brewed cider if you have some on the go.

How to get there: The event will be at Hulme Centre (on the grounds of Claremont Resource Centre), which is on Rolls Crescent. It's behind Hulme Community Garden Centre (map) and the Junction Pub on the corner of Old Birley St and Rolls Crescent. From Hulme Market, head towards the city centre, up Old Birley Street, and Hullme Community Garden Centre is 100m up on your left. From the city centre get the 86 bus (to Chorlton), from Piccadilly Gardens, to Old Birley Street (or walk or cycle).

Tuesday, 27 at 7.15pm Climate change, the economy and Copenhagen Friends Meeting House Mount St (behind central library) Manchester Speakers: Phil Thornhill, national coordinator, Campaign against climate change Martin Empson, trades union group of the CaCC Vestas worker (campaigning to stop closure of wind turbine factory) Speaker from direct action group reporting on recent “invasion” of Radcliffe (sic) power station Weds and Thurs 28 and 29 October The Great Green De bate: free advice for SMEs Learn how to make your business more environmentally competitive Do you run a small or medium sized business? The question of how small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) can compete in an increasingly sustainability conscious market will be tackled in a series of live debates at the Business North West exhibition at Manchester Central on the 28-29 October, 13.30 – 14.30 in the Innovation Lounge. The debates will bring together experts in the fields of sustainability and business who will respond to questions from the local business community. Confirmed panelists include: Angie Robinson and Phil Jones of Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce, Richard Sharland of Manchester City Council, Todd Holden of ENWORKS, Mark Turner of Foundation, Suzanne Longworth of CO2 Balance, Mark Bowers of Redfern Travel, Matthew Rhodes of MHL Support, Paul Mather of Eco Innovate, and Martin Baxter from the Institute of Environmental Management & Assessment. Thurs 29, 5.30 for 6pm start Peak Oil: what it is and what it may mean for transport planning, with David Strahan Renolds Building, Manchester University £2 for non-members of Transport Planning Society. Contact [email protected] for more info. Thurs 29, 7.30- 9.30pm Waste - Greater Manchester Waste Strategy and Climate Change. Cllr Neil Swannick will explain the recent long term investments in waste disposal Manchester Town Hall Friday 30 Bike Friday cycle rides have now been confirmed for all five routes for next Friday 30th October from Stretford, Chorlton, Withington, Levenshulme and Prestiwch - starting at 8am and ending at Exchange Square in Mancehster. Full details at http://www.bikefriday.org This month we are planning to give a free Duracell battery charger plus 4 AA rechargable batteries to Bike Friday participants to help you to light up your cycle journey more sustainably this winter. This will be confirmed by email nearer the time. The route of the Levenshulme ride has now been officially changed - it now follows a direct route via Plymouth Grove rather than merging with the Withington group at Fallowfield. Sat 31 Friends of the Earth Halloween Trick or Treat parade and party www.foe.co.uk/community/news/trick_or_treat_21351.html