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Author: Calum McFarlane

Manchester’s Housing Strategy fails climate emergency honesty test: so what could be done differently?  

24 June, 2022 Calum McFarlane Leave a comment

As Manchester City Council’s new Housing Strategy was up for discussion in June’s Economy Scrutiny Committee, we wrote about the…

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Posted in: Economy Scrutiny Committee, Housing, TeamSF

We were wrong, ‘burning out’ over COP26 was totally worth it

1 April, 2022 Calum McFarlane Leave a comment

So here we are, 140 days after COP26 closed in Glasgow. And what a 140 days it’s been, full of…

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Posted in: Carbon Budgets Filed under: burnout, cop26

If you want to learn more about how to lobby your Councillors about #climate (or other issues!), read on below…

14 June, 2021 Calum McFarlane Leave a comment

Hope For The Future are a charity who descriobe their mission (in their own words) as: Hope for the Future…

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Posted in: How to, Manchester City Council Filed under: Hope for the Future, Lobbying

Three commitments for City Council candidates to improve climate action

15 April, 2021 Calum McFarlane 5 Comments

We get it. The City Council cannot single-handedly do everything that Manchester needs to do to “play its full part”…

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Posted in: 2021 Local Elections, Manchester City Council

Petition for a 7th Scrutiny Committee – weekly post

28 September, 2020 Calum McFarlane 1 Comment

Petition updates and call for support Almost 500 people have now signed our petition online. 476 fierce battles with the…

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Posted in: Collecting signatures, Petition for cash and democracy, Weekly Bulletins

Interview with Charlotte Weatherill @CharleyLancs – on “vulnerability”, development and the violence of ongoing emissions

23 September, 2020 Calum McFarlane Leave a comment

 CEM runs interviews with interesting people in Manchester working on climate change. A couple of weeks ago a PhD student…

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Posted in: Interviews, Petition for cash and democracy Filed under: Charlotte Weatherill

Abyss Staring – a beginners guide

1 September, 2020 Calum McFarlane 1 Comment

And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you Nietzsche (Beyond Good and Evil:…

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Posted in: Active Citizenship Toolkit, Coming To Our Own Emotional Rescue

On Joy

25 August, 2020 Calum McFarlane Leave a comment

Today we continue a series of posts where CEM Core Group members consider what various “big emotions” mean to them…

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Posted in: Coming To Our Own Emotional Rescue, Emotional Literacy Filed under: joy

Interview with the team from @MCRGND_POD

4 August, 2020 Calum McFarlane 1 Comment

Last week the team behind the Manchester Green New Deal Podcast (@MCRGND_POD on Twitter) published a conversation with two of…

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Posted in: Interviews Filed under: @MCRGND_POD

Emotional Intelligence and Parenting

21 July, 2020 Calum McFarlane 2 Comments

The 21st century will be a time of many overlapping crises. The ability to maintain some level of emotional stability…

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Posted in: Coming To Our Own Emotional Rescue Filed under: Antje Timmerman

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