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Mersey Valley’s Warden Service Facing The Axe?
Chair of ‘Friends of Chorlton Meadows’, Dave Bishop, got in touch with us about his concerns over the discontinuation of the Mersey Valley Countryside Warden Service and its implications for the...
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Repost: A tale of two cities- Alexandra Park, biophilia and #Manchester City...
Two must-read articles about Alexandra Park, where the chainsaws are moving in… (See our previous editorial on the subject here). From the Hulme Green Party, “Alex Park protesters take to trees to stop...
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Guardian: “Has the axe fallen on the Green Spaces of #Manchester?”
Arwa Aburawa, co-editor of Manchester Climate Monthly, has a new article looking at the Mersey Valley, Alexandra Park and the bigger picture. You can read it here. I think it’s very good, but then I...
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Stevenson Square in city-centre #Manchester as “green oasis”? Funds sought…
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Video: @SirRichardLeese opens “Investing in #Nature” seminar in #Manchester
Richard Leese giving the welcome address at the “Investing in Nature” seminar yesterday. More on this perfect example of “ecological modernisation” soon… One point – at 8.21 he makes reference to a...
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#Manchester City Centre residents- “Green Spaces” meeting on Weds 9th October
Got this below from the city centre labour party site. The meeting it talks about is happening on the evening of the day that Manchester City Council meets and discusses, among other things, how to...
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#Manchester City Council fails to produce Green and Blue Infrastructure...
Oh, this story is the gift that keeps on giving. A Green and Blue Infrastructure plan (that’s parks and canals and lakes, to you and me), has been promised and delayed, promised and delayed, so many...
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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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Off-topic: Planting potatoes and felling fences in Moss Side, South #Manchester
When not sobbing in the corner because of the latest Steering Group/City Council incompetence and/or inaction, I sometimes do useful stuff at the Moss Side Community Allotment. In late March we planted...
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#Manchester councillors call for more gully cleaning machines. #floods and...
A group of councillors has called for some of the £14.5m windfall received by Manchester City Council from Manchester Airport to be spent on the “purchase or lease” of an additional gully cleaning...
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#Manchester Council to spend up to £30k on Green Strategy that in-house...
Manchester City Council’s environmental strategy team has invited outsiders to write its Green Infrastructure Strategy. It is looking for a “suitably qualified consultant with relevant experience to...
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VICTORY: Council to come clean about Clean and “Green” City Fund #Manchester
Manchester City Council will finally reveal how they have been spending the £14.5m “Clean City” Fund. The scheme was set up last year to disperse an unexpected Manchester Airports Group dividend. The...
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Manchester City Council spends 30k on “green” strategy. Consults with… the...
Here’s the short version: Manchester City Council has spent 30k outsourcing the creation of a “Green Infrastructure”. They “consulted” – but mostly with the consultants they hired! Manchester City...
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Councillor Rosa Battle says hundreds consulted on Green Infrastructure....
Councillor Rosa Battle, Executive Member for Culture and Leisure, told elected members of the Council that hundreds of people had been consulted on the outsourced-for-£30,000 “Green and Blue...
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Upcoming Event: Bat walk and survey #Manchester 1st June
Bat Walk & Survey at Birley Wednesday, 1st June 2016 Time: 9-11pm Join us & the South Lancashire Bat Group for a guided walk around Birley and nearby Hulme to find out more about bats and...
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Upcoming Event: “Climathon” #Manchester 27 October
A few years ago Manchester City Council said it was going to consult widely on its ‘Green and Blue’ Infrastructure strategy, which had been endlessly promised and delayed. The then Executive Member...
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