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“Let’s get to (EN)Works”
The environmental businesses support organisation Enworks talks to MCFly co-editor Arwa Aburawa about its success, its struggles, and why now is the (cheapest) time for businesses to take action on...
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Everything you wanted to know about Ecological Modernisation but were afraid...
1. What is Ecological Modernisation? According to wikipedia, font of all reliable information, Ecological Modernisation (EM) is “an optimistic, reform-oriented school of environmental social science...
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Event Report: Ecology as the Opium of the People
MCFly co-editor Marc Hudson attends a meeting with muscle relaxants mentioned in the title, but comes away neither relaxed or impressed. Wrap your thinking gear around this quote from the eco-thriller...
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Event Report: #Manchester #madf or a digital future. A green one? Not so much.
Attention Conservation Notice: This is an account of a two hour ‘debate’ about Manchester’s digital future. Nobody brought up climate change as an Issue. A panel consisting of Dave Carter (Manchester...
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Newsflash: MMUving on up – ManMet up in Green League Table
Manchester Metropolitan University has moved up 7 places in a “Green Universities” League Table” released today. The Green League Table, run by People and Planet, “the largest student network in...
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Event Report: Manchester Day Parade, or “The Sky Has Limits” #mcrday
MCFly co-editor Marc Hudson searches the Manchester Day Parade for mention of climate change, vainly. And tacks a little gratuitious pop anthropology on the end. Why? For the lulz. Who today speaks of...
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Event Report: “Going for Growth – stimulating sustainable local regeneration”...
In a day full of words and assertions, the single most important question was not asked until fifteen minutes after the scheduled end-time. Half the delegates had already left. They missed nothing,...
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Youtube: Vandana Shiva on Rio +20, “Green Economy” GM food etc
Not ’bout Manchester, but the bigger picture… Indian eco-feminist and activist Vandana Shiva gets her points across well in this four minute video.
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Event Report: “Groaning the City” #citycons #Manchester
Marc Hudson attends (1) a redemption ritual for corporate “environmentalists” and finds himself musing about ecological modernisation, prostitutes and the #deliciousambiguity of the ‘cons’ in...
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Book Review: This Changes Everything, by Naomi Klein
This excellent book review is re-posted with permission from the site of a PhD student colleague. His site has many other posts as insightful as this one below… January 12, 2015 by Falsum A passage in...
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