Information on events that took place in 2009 is shown below. For details of forthcoming events, please click here.
January 2009
Wednesday
7th January, 7pm: Planning meeting, Green Fish Resource Centre, 46-50
Oldham St. (map)
Tuesday
13th January, 6.45pm for 7.15pm - 9pm: Full group meeting, Green Fish
Resource Centre, 46-50 Oldham St. (map)
- more
info
Monday
19th January, 5.45pm - 7pm: Clothing Swap Shop, with clothes drop-off
from 5.45pm, and swapping from 6.15pm, entry is free if you bring three
items of clothing or £1 if you don't, Eighth Day, Oxford Road
(map)
Thursday
22nd January, 7.30pm: MFOE social, Northern Quarter Restaurant
Saturday
24th January, 10.30am - 5pm: North West Local Groups Get-Together,
Salvation Army Centre: Harrington Street, off Moor Lane/Adelphi Street,
Preston (map)
Thursday
29th January, 6.45pm for 7pm - 9pm: Campaigns meeting, Green Fish
Resource Centre, 46-50 Oldham St. (map)
Friday
30th January, 8am: Critical Commute to Albert Square from Stretford
Arndale, Chorlton Library, Withington Library, Levenshulme Station,
Prestwich Bury New Road / Scholes Lane - more
info
February 2009
Wednesday
4th February, 7pm: Planning meeting, Green Fish Resource Centre, 46-50
Oldham St. (map)
Saturday
7th February, 1pm - 6pm: Strategy Day, Green Fish Resource Centre,
46-50 Oldham St. (map)
Tuesday
10th February, 6.45pm for 7.15pm - 9pm: Full group meeting, Green Fish
Resource Centre, 46-50 Oldham St. (map)
- more
info
Friday
20th February, 6.30pm for 7pm: Talk by Jack Woodward, Canada's top
aboriginal lawyer and legal council to the Beaver Lake Cree Nation,
about his fight against Canadian "tar
sands" (a highly polluting
source of fossil fuels), CUBE, 113 Portland Street, Manchester (map)
Tuesday
24th February, 6pm: Fairtrade Fashion Show, Great Hall, Manchester Town
Hall (map)
Thursday
26th February, 6pm: Fairtrade discussion, Conference Hall, Manchester
Town Hall (map)
Thursday
26th February, 6.45pm for 7pm - 9pm: Campaigns meeting, Green Fish
Resource Centre, 46-50 Oldham St. (map)
Friday
27th February, 8am: Critical Commute to Albert Square from Stretford
Arndale, Chorlton Library, Withington Library, Levenshulme Station,
Prestwich Bury New Road / Scholes Lane - more
info
Saturday
28th February, 11am - 4.30pm: Fairly Traded Fair, Albert Square
& Manchester Town Hall, Manchester
March 2009
Monday
2nd March, 5.45pm - 7pm: Clothing Swap Shop, with clothes drop-off from
5.45pm, and swapping from 6.15pm, entry is free if you bring three
items of clothing or £1 if you don't, Eighth Day, Oxford Road
(map)
Wednesday
4th March, 7pm: Planning meeting, Green Fish Resource Centre, 46-50
Oldham St. (map)
Saturday
7th March, 1.30pm - 5pm: Manchester Climate Forum "Call to Real Action"
conference, Methodist Central Hall, Oldham St. (map)
- more
info
Tuesday
10th March, 6.45pm for 7.15pm - 9pm: Full group meeting, Green Fish
Resource Centre, 46-50 Oldham St. (map)
- more
info
Sunday
15th March, 5pm: "People's Premiere" of The Age of Stupid, featuring
speakers from MFOE and AFSL, and a live satellite link to the premiere
in Leicester Square, Vue cinema, Lowry Outlet Mall (map)
- more info
Thursday
19th March: Climate Change Day of Action, starting with a service at
noon at Coventry Cathedral (map)
with a keynote speech from renowned NASA scientist James Hansen,
followed by a carnival parade and a 'No to Coal' rally outside the
headquarters of E.ON - more info
Friday
20th March, 6.30pm - 8.30pm: Europe's Trade Deals - Who Benefits?, a
Manchester World Development Movement public meeting with Mary Lou
Malig, trade campaigner from the Philippines, Chorlton Central Church,
Barlow Moor Road (map)
Thursday
26th March, 6.45pm for 7pm - 9pm: Campaigns meeting, Green Fish
Resource Centre, 46-50 Oldham St. (map)
Friday
27th March, 8am: Bike Friday, communal bike ride to Albert Square from
Stretford Arndale, Chorlton Library, Withington Library, Levenshulme
Station, Prestwich Bury New Road / Scholes Lane - more
info
Saturday
28th March: "Put People First", a march for jobs, justice and climate
ahead of the G20 summit, gather at 11am at Victoria Embankment (by
Temple tube station), London (map)
- more info
April 2009
Wednesday
1st April, 7pm: Planning meeting, Green Fish Resource Centre, 46-50
Oldham St. (map)
Saturday
4th April, 11am - 11pm: Chorlton Big Green Festival, St. Clement's
Church, Edge Lane, Chorlton (map)
- more info
Tuesday
14th April, 6.45pm for 7.15pm - 9pm: Full group meeting, Green Fish
Resource Centre, 46-50 Oldham St. (map)
- more
info
Thursday
16th April, 5pm - 8pm: Manchester City Council "How Should Your City
Grow?" consultation event, Village Restaurant, Wilmslow Road, Rusholme
- more info
Friday
17th April, 10am - 4pm: Manchester City Council "How Should Your City
Grow?" consultation event, Asda supermarket, Longsight - more info
Saturday
18th April, 10am - 4pm: Manchester City Council "How Should Your City
Grow?" consultation event, outside Didsbury Library - more info
Tuesday
21st April, 10am - 4pm: Manchester City Council "How Should Your City
Grow?" consultation event, Harpurhey shopping centre - more info
Wednesday
22nd April, 11am - 5pm: Manchester City Council "How Should Your City
Grow?" consultation event, Piccadilly Gardens, Manchester - more info
Wednesday
22nd April, 6pm: "Building a low-carbon economy" seminar with Mike
Reardon (Manchester City Council), Michael Smith Lecture Theatre,
University of Manchester, Upper Brook Street / Dover Street - more info
Thursday
23rd April, 1pm - 6pm: Manchester City Council "How Should Your City
Grow?" consultation event, Tesco supermarket, Baguley - more info
Friday
24th April, 8am: Critical Commute, communal bike ride to Albert Square
from Stretford Arndale, Chorlton Library, Withington Library,
Levenshulme Station, Prestwich Bury New Road / Scholes Lane - more
info
Friday
24th April, Noon - 7pm: Manchester City Council "How Should Your City
Grow?" consultation event, Hulme High Street shopping centre - more info
Saturday
25th April, 11am - 5pm: Manchester City Council "How Should Your City
Grow?" consultation event, St. Ann's Square, Manchester - more info
Monday
27th April, 6.30pm for 7pm: "Global Crisis: Organic Response",
presentation and question time with speakers including Patrick Holden
(director of the Soil Association), Mechanics Institute, 103 Princess
Street (map)
- more
info
Tuesday
28th April, 5pm for 5.45pm - 7.45pm: "Solving the Climate Change and
Sustainable Development Problems Together" lecture by Professor Mohan
Munasinghe (Vice Chair of the IPCC and Director General of the
Sustainable Consumption Institute (SCI) at The University of
Manchester), University Place, Oxford Road (map)
Wednesday
29th April, 6pm: "Biodiversity loss and ecosystem change: Consequences
for people and the environment" seminar with Prof. Georgina Mace
(Imperial College London), Michael Smith Lecture Theatre, University of
Manchester, Upper Brook Street / Dover Street - more info
Thursday
30th April, 6.45pm for 7pm - 9pm: Campaigns meeting, Green Fish
Resource Centre, 46-50 Oldham St. (map)
May 2009
Friday
1st - Monday 3rd May: Biotagging event at Philips Park, near Sportcity (map)
- more
info
Wednesday
6th May, 6pm: "Forming an emissions inventory, energy scenarios and
plans with stakeholders: The greenhouse gas regional inventory project
(GRIP)" seminar with Dr Sebastian Carney (GRIP), Michael Smith Lecture
Theatre, University of Manchester, Upper Brook Street / Dover Street - more info
Wednesday
6th May, 7pm: Planning meeting, Green Fish Resource Centre, 46-50
Oldham St. (map)
Monday
11th May, 10.30am for 11am - 1pm: GMITA State of Transport conference,
Council Chamber, Manchester Town Hall (map)
- more info
Monday
11th May, 5.45pm - 7pm: Clothing Swap Shop, with clothes drop-off from
5.45pm, and swapping from 6.15pm, entry is free if you bring three
items of clothing or £1 if you don't, Eighth Day, Oxford Road
(map)
Monday
11th May, 6pm for 6.30pm - 9pm: "The Fight Against World Poverty",
Department for International Development consultation event, Crowne
Plaza Manchester hotel, Shudehill (map)
- more info
Tuesday
12th May, 5.30pm for 6pm - 8pm: North West Regional Strategy workshop,
Friends Meeting House, Mount Street, Manchester (map)
Tuesday
12th May, 6.45pm for 7pm - 9pm: Full group meeting, Green Fish Resource
Centre, 46-50 Oldham St. (map)
- more
info
Wednesday
13th May, 6pm: "The return of the beaver" seminar with Simon Jones
(Scottish Wildlife Trust), Michael Smith Lecture Theatre, University of
Manchester, Upper Brook Street / Dover Street - more info
Saturday
16th - Sunday 17th May: Northern Gathering, Manchester Youth Hostel,
Potato Wharf, Castlefield (map)
- more info
Tuesday
19th May, 7pm - 9.30pm: Screening of "Total
Denial", followed by a
Q&A with MEP candidates, AMC Great Northern cinema, Deansgate (map)
Tuesday
26th May, 6.30pm: Meeting to discuss LDF consultation response, Green
Fish Resource Centre, 46-50 Oldham St. (map)
Thursday
28th May, 6.45pm for 7pm - 9pm: Campaigns meeting, Green Fish Resource
Centre, 46-50 Oldham St. (map)
Friday
29th May, 8am: Bike Friday, communal bike ride to Albert Square from
Stretford Arndale, Chorlton Library, Withington Library, Levenshulme
Station, Prestwich Bury New Road / Scholes Lane - more
info
Friday
29th May - Thursday 4th June, 2pm (except Monday) and 6.10pm: "The Age
of Stupid", Cornerhouse, Oxford Street (map)
- more info
Saturday
30th May, 10am - 5pm: "Cycling as a Solution" conference, Friends
Meeting House, Mount Street (map)
- more
info
June 2009
Monday
1st June, 5.45pm - 7pm: Clothing Swap Shop, with clothes drop-off from
5.45pm, and swapping from 6.15pm, entry is free if you bring three
items of clothing or £1 if you don't, Eighth Day, Oxford Road
(map)
Monday
1st June, 7pm: Planning meeting, Green Fish Resource Centre, 46-50
Oldham St. (map)
Tuesday
2nd June, 8pm - late: Manchester Climate Fortnightly first birthday
celebration, Sand Bar, Grosvenor St, off Oxford Road (map)
Friday
5th June, 5.30pm - 7.30pm: World Environment Day 'Bring and Share'
vegetarian indoor picnic, Green Fish Resource Centre, 46-50 Oldham St. (map)
Saturday
6th June, 11am - 3pm: Didsbury Festival, Didsbury Park (map)
Tuesday
9th June, 6.45pm for 7pm - 9pm: Full group meeting, Green Fish Resource
Centre, 46-50 Oldham St. (map)
- more
info
Tuesday
9th June, 7pm - 9pm: Camp for Climate Action meeting, Jabez Clegg,
Dover Street, off Oxford Road (map)
- email manchester@climatecamp.org.uk
with any questions
Thursday
11th June, 10am - 4pm: "Climate Change Science and Policy" series of
talks by Tyndall Centre researchers, Manchester University, Oxford Road
Thursday
11th June, 6pm: Transport sub-group meeting, Green Fish Resource
Centre, 46-50 Oldham St. (map)
Sunday
14th June, noon - 4pm: Stall at Sale Family Fun Day, Worthington Park,
Irlam Road, Sale (map)
Wednesday
17th June, 8am - 2.30pm: Stall at Bike Week event, Peace Gardens, next
to St. Peter's Square, Manchester
Wednesday
17th June, 2.30pm for 3pm: "Aviation in an Era of Decarbonisation"
seminar with talks, panel discussion and an extended Q&A,
featuring Dr Alice Bows (Tyndall Centre) and Brian Simpson MEP, Renold
Building, Sackville Street (map)
Wednesday
17th June, 7pm: SEMA (Stop Expansion at Manchester Airport) AGM,
Friends Meeting House, Mount Street (map)
- more info
Saturday
20th June, from noon: Manchester Permaculture Network event, including
herb identification and drawing workshops, Birchfields Park - more info
Sunday
21st June, noon - 4pm: Stall at Sale Festival, Worthington Park, Irlam
Road, Sale (map)
Tuesday
23rd June, 7pm: Get Serious campaign planning meeting, Green Fish
Resource Centre, 46-50 Oldham St. (map)
Thursday
25th June, 6.45pm for 7pm - 9pm: Campaigns meeting, Green Fish Resource
Centre, 46-50 Oldham St. (map)
Friday
26th June, 8am: Bike Friday, communal bike ride to Albert Square from
Stretford Arndale, Chorlton Library, Withington Library, Levenshulme
Station, Prestwich Bury New Road / Scholes Lane - more
info
Saturday
27th June, 2pm - 5pm: FOE Planning Act 2008 workshop, Devonshire House,
37 York Place, Leeds (map)
Sunday
28th June, 1pm - 5pm: Stall at Crumpsall Carnival, Crumpsall Park,
Ashtree Road (map)
- more info
Monday
29th June, 4pm - 8pm: Living Communities: A Low Carbon Communities
Event, with information and workshops on climate change and carbon
footprinting, Manchester Town Hall (map)
July 2009
Saturday
4th - Sunday 5th July: "The Manchester Report", presentations from 20
applicants of innovative schemes to tackle climate change, part of
Manchester International Festival, Manchester Town Hall (map)
- more info
Saturday
4th July, Noon - 5pm: Stall at Altrincham Festival, Beechfields
Recreation Ground, Grange Avenue, Timperley (map)
Sunday
5th July, Noon - 6pm: Stall at Beech Road Festival, Chorlton Green (map)
Monday
6th July, 7pm: Planning meeting, Green Fish Resource Centre, 46-50
Oldham St. (map)
Tuesday
7th July, 7pm for 7.30pm: Screening of "The Age of Stupid", Longfords
Function Suite, Longford Park, off Ryebank Road (map)
Saturday
11th July, Noon - 5pm: Stall at Chorlton Park Summer Festival, Chorlton
Park (map)
Tuesday
14th July, 6.45pm for 7pm - 9pm: Full group meeting, Green Fish
Resource Centre, 46-50 Oldham St. (map)
- more
info
Saturday
18th & Sunday 19th July, Noon - 5pm: Stall at Caribbean
Carnival, Alexandra Park - more
info
Thursday
23rd July, 6.45pm for 7pm - 9pm: Campaigns meeting, Green Fish Resource
Centre, 46-50 Oldham St. (map)
Saturday
25th July, 9am - 5pm: Stall at Longsight Market, junction of Dickenson
Road and St John's Road (map)
Tuesday
28th July: Community Hydro Power workshop, Manchester Knowledge Capital
office, Churchgate House, 56 Oxford St. (map)
- for more info, visit http://www.h2ope.org.uk
or call Steve Welsh on 01706 813663
Wednesday
29th July, 7pm - 9pm: Meeting with Andy Atkins, Executive Director of
Friends of the Earth, Friends Meeting House, Mount St. (map)
- open to local group members
only
Friday
31st July, 8am: Launch of Bike Friday, communal bike ride to Albert
Square from Stretford Arndale, Chorlton Library, Withington Library,
Levenshulme Station, Prestwich Bury New Road / Scholes Lane - more
info
August 2009
Saturday
1st August, 9am - 5pm: Stall at Wythenshawe Market, Poundswick Lane (map)
Sunday
2nd August, 10am - 4pm: Stall at Skyride Manchester event, Velodrome,
Sportcity (map)
- more info
Tuesday
4th August, 7pm for 7.30pm: Climate Change: A Year From Now, a
Manchester Climate Forum event looking at Copenhagen and beyond,
Friends Meeting House, Mount St. (map)
- more info
Thursday
6th August, 7pm: Planning meeting, Green Fish Resource Centre, 46-50
Oldham St. (map)
Friday
7th August, 8pm: "Speechless"
book launch, with free wine & snacks, live music, 'making of'
exhibition, interactive page, and discounted copies of the book, Sand
Bar, 120 Grosvenor Street, off Oxford Road (map)
Saturday
8th August, noon - 4pm: Stall at Brooklands Summer Fair, Recreation
Ground off Sparkford Ave / Wendover Rd (map)
Tuesday
11th August, 6.45pm for 7pm - 9pm: Full group meeting, Green Fish
Resource Centre, 46-50 Oldham St. (map)
- more
info
Saturday
15th August, Noon - 5pm: Stall at Newton Heath Festival, Brookdale
Park, Droylsden Road (map)
Tuesday
18th August, 6pm - 8.45pm: CIBSE Building Regulations Part L
consultation event, The Vine Inn, 42-46 Kennedy Street, Manchester (map)
- for more info on the consultation, go to the CIBSE
website
Wednesday
19th August, 7pm: Transport subgroup meeting, Green Fish Resource
Centre, 46-50 Oldham St. (map)
Thursday
20th August, 6.30pm for 7pm: Greater Manchester Groups meeting, Green
Fish Resource Centre, 46-50 Oldham St. (map)
Sunday
23rd August, noon - 3pm: Greater Manchester Groups' Picnic, Heaton Park
- all welcome, just make sure you wear blue and bring something tasty
to eat and drink...
Tuesday
25th August, 7.30pm for 8pm: Screening of "The Age of Stupid", Yard
Theatre, 41 Birley Street, Hulme (map)
- suggested donation £2.50 to cover costs
Thursday
27th August, 6.45pm for 7pm - 9pm: Campaigns meeting, Green Fish
Resource Centre, 46-50 Oldham St. (map)
Thursday
27th August - Wednesday 2nd September: Climate Camp 2009, London - more
info
Friday
28th August, 8am: Bike Friday, communal bike ride to Exchange Square
from Stretford Arndale, Chorlton Library, Withington Library,
Levenshulme Station, Prestwich Bury New Road / Scholes Lane - more
info
September 2009
Tuesday
1st September, 6pm: Planning meeting, Green Fish Resource Centre, 46-50
Oldham St. (map)
Wednesday
2nd September, 7.30pm for 8pm: Screening of "The Age of Stupid", Yard
Theatre, 41 Birley Street, Hulme (map)
- suggested donation £2.50 to cover costs
Friday
4th September, 10am - 6pm: Put People First Campaigning Day, Central
London - more
info
Tuesday
8th September, 6.45pm for 7pm - 9pm: Full group meeting, Green Fish
Resource Centre, 46-50 Oldham St. (map)
- more
info
Saturday
12th September, 10am - 4pm: Communities for Change event, MMU Didsbury
Campus, Wilmslow Road (map)
- for more info or to book a place, call 01282 692 323 or email info@communitynw.org.uk
Saturday
12th - Sunday 13th September: FOE Local Groups Conference, East
Midlands Conference Centre, Nottingham (map)
- more
info
Saturday
19th September, 10am - 4.30pm: FOE "Get serious about local transport"
training day, St Thomas' Centre, Ardwick Green North, Manchester (map)
- attendance is free, but registration is required - more info
Monday
21st September, 5.45pm - 7pm: Clothing Swap Shop, with clothes drop-off
from 5.45pm, and swapping from 6.15pm, entry is free if you bring three
items of clothing or £1 if you don't, Eighth Day, Oxford Road
(map)
Thursday
24th September, 6.45pm for 7pm - 9pm: Campaigns meeting, Green Fish
Resource Centre, 46-50 Oldham St. (map)
Friday
25th September, 8am: Bike Friday, communal bike ride to Exchange Square
from Stretford Arndale, Chorlton Library, Withington Library,
Levenshulme Station, Prestwich Bury New Road / Scholes Lane - more
info
Saturday
26th September, 2pm - 4pm: Carbon Clinic, Eighth Day, Oxford Road (map)
Tuesday
29th September, 5pm fo 5.30pm: Climate Engineering, a talk by Prof.
Andrew Watson FRS from the University of East Anglia, Renold Building
D7, University of Manchester north campus (no. 8 on this campus map)
Tuesday
29th September: Community Hydro Power workshop, Manchester Knowledge
Capital office, Churchgate House, 56 Oxford St. (map)
October 2009
Monday
5th October, 6pm: Screening of "The
End of the Line", Comedy Store,
Deansgate Locks, Manchester (map)
Monday
5th - Thursday 8th October: Climate Clinic at Conservative Party
conference, CUBE, 113 Portland Street, Manchester (map)
- more info
Thursday
8th October, 7pm: Planning meeting, Green Fish Resource Centre, 46-50
Oldham St. (map)
Tuesday
13th October, 6.45pm for 7pm - 9pm: Full group meeting, Green Fish
Resource Centre, 46-50 Oldham St. (map)
- more
info
Wednesday
14th October, 7pm - 9pm: Transport sub-group meeting, Green Fish
Resource Centre, 46-50 Oldham St. (map)
Friday
16th October, 6pm onwards: Food Chain indoor organic veggie / vegan
picnic with special guest John Leech MP, Green Fish Resource Centre,
46-50 Oldham St. (map)
- please bring a dish and your favourite drink...
Saturday
17th October, 9.30am - 4pm: Climate Action Now mobilisation event,
featuring workshops, discussions, films, music, food & drink,
with keynote speaker Penney Poyzer, New Century Hall, Corporation
Street (map)
Wednesday
21st October, 5.30pm - 6.45pm: No Mega Tesco protest against the
proposed 140,000 sq ft Tesco in Old Trafford (the largest in Europe),
outside Old Trafford Town Hall on Talbot Road (at the corner of Warwick
Road) - more
info
Wednesday
21st October, 7pm: Manchester Climate Change Action Plan(s), a chance
to quiz Richard Sharland, the man with responsibility for guiding the
Climate Change Action Plan for Manchester, Friends Meeting House, Mount
St. (map)
- more info
Saturday
24th October, 11am - 5pm: Prop-making for "Trick or Treat" parade on
Saturday 31st October, Green Fish Resource Centre, 46-50 Oldham St. (map)
Monday
26th October, 5.45pm - 7pm: Clothing Swap Shop, with clothes drop-off
from 5.45pm, and swapping from 6.15pm, entry is free if you bring three
items of clothing or £1 if you don't, Eighth Day, Oxford Road
(map)
Tuesday
27th October, 7.15pm: "Climate Change, the Economy and Copenhagen"
public meeting, featuring Phil Thornhill (National Coordinator,
Campaign against Climate Change), Martin Empson (CaCC Trades Union
Group), and a worker from Vestas wind turbine factory, Friends Meeting
House, Mount St. (map)
Wednesday
28th October, 6pm - 8pm: Ask the Scientists: What Is Nuclear Power?,
Kro Bar, Oxford Road
Thursday
29th October, 5.30pm for 6pm: Peak Oil: what it is, and what it may
mean for transport planning, Renolds Building, University of
Manchester, free to TPS members and £2 for non-members
Thursday
29th October, 6.45pm for 7pm - 9pm: Campaigns meeting, Green Fish
Resource Centre, 46-50 Oldham St. (map)
Thursday
29th October, 7.30pm - 9.30pm: SERA meeting on waste, with Cllr Neil
Swannick explaining the recent long term investments in waste disposal
in Greater Manchester, and what that means in relation to climate
change, Committee Room 3, Manchester Town Hall
Friday
30th October, 8am: Bike Friday, communal bike ride to Exchange Square
from Stretford Arndale, Chorlton Library, Withington Library,
Levenshulme Station, Prestwich Bury New Road / Scholes Lane - more
info
Saturday
31st October, 2pm - 4pm: Carbon Clinic, Eighth Day, Oxford Road (map)
Saturday
31st October, 2pm: Clothing Swap Shop, with clothes drop off
2.00-2.30pm, swapping 2.30-3.00pm, entry is free if you bring three
items of clothing or £1 if you don't, Levenshulme Library,
Cromwell Grove, Levenshulme
Saturday
31st October, 6.30pm onwards: Copenhagen "Trick or Treat" parade, from
Peveril of the Peak pub on Great Bridgewater Street (map)
to the Bowling Green pub on Grafton Street (map),
where the party will begin at 8pm with live music from "Heartstring"
and "I Am Mechanical" as well as comedy, cabaret from Guy Bloke, and
the chance to monster mash with a giant puppet...
November 2009
Sunday
1st November, 1.30pm - 3.30pm: Screening of "The
End of the Line", Manchester
Museum, Oxford Road
Monday
2nd November, 7pm: Planning meeting, Green Fish Resource Centre, 46-50
Oldham St. (map)
Saturday
7th November, 10am - 5.30pm: G20 Counter Conference organised by the
Put People First coalition, Westminster Central Hall, London - more info
Tuesday
10th November, 6.45pm for 7pm - 9pm: Full group meeting, Green Fish
Resource Centre, 46-50 Oldham St. (map)
- more
info
Wednesday
18th November, 6pm: Sewing class for beginners, Eighth Day, Oxford Road
(map)
Wednesday
18th November, 7pm: Transport sub-group meeting, Green Fish Resource
Centre, 46-50 Oldham St. (map)
Sunday
22nd November, 11am: "Climate Justice Now! ", a UK speaker tour
(organised jointly by WDM, Friends of the Earth, People and Planet and
Jubilee Debt Campaign) explaining why need a global climate agreement
which is both effective and delivers justice for the global south, and
what you can do about it, The Scan, University Place, Manchester
University, Oxford Road - more info
Sunday
22nd November, 6pm - 9pm: "Bloody Oil: The Fight Against Canadian Tar
Sands", with first hand stories from indigenous people from Canada and
info on how to get involved in the new campaign to stop British
companies ruining lives and causing climate chaos, Dancehouse Theatre,
Oxford Road (map)
- more info
Monday
23rd November, 5.45pm - 7pm: Clothing Swap Shop, with clothes drop-off
from 5.45pm, and swapping from 6.15pm, entry is free if you bring three
items of clothing or £1 if you don't, Eighth Day, Oxford Road
(map)
Tuesday
24th November, 7.30pm: "The Scale of the Challenge", a talk by Dr Alice
Bows from the Sustainable Consumption Institute and the Tyndall Centre,
Bury Fusilier Museum (adjacent to Bury library), Moss Street (map)
Thursday
26th November, 5.30pm - 8.30pm: "Hard Rain: Our Headlong Collision With
Nature, documentary presentation by photographer Mark Edwards, Lecture
Theatre 1, MMU Geoffrey Manton Building, Rosamond Street West, off
Oxford Road (map)
Thursday
26th November, 6.45pm for 7pm - 9pm: Campaigns meeting, Green Fish
Resource Centre, 46-50 Oldham St. (map)
Thursday
26th November, 7.30pm: "Our Local Elephant - Manchester Airport", find
out what's already happening to reign in airport expansion nationally,
regionally and in Manchester with John Stewart (AirportWatch) and Liz
Snook (Plane Stupid), Bowling Green pub, Grafton Street (map)
Friday
27th November, 8am: Bike Friday, communal bike ride to Exchange Square
from Stretford Arndale, Chorlton Library, Withington Library,
Levenshulme Station, Prestwich Bury New Road / Scholes Lane - more
info
Monday
30th November, 7pm: Planning meeting, Green Fish Resource Centre, 46-50
Oldham St. (map)
Monday
30th November, 7pm - 10pm: Call to Real Action - Re-boot, Nexus Art
Cafe, Dale Street (map)
- more
info
December 2009
Tuesday
1st December, 7pm: Countdown to 2010: New Global Food &
Medicine Laws, Friends Meeting House, Mount Street (map)
- more info
Friday
4th December, 6.30pm: Annual General Meeting, Green Fish Resource
Centre, 46-50 Oldham St. (map),
followed by our Xmas meal at the Marble Arch pub on Rochdale Road (map)
Saturday
5th December, Noon - 3pm: "The Wave" climate demo in London, assemble
at noon in Grosvenor Square, then march on Parliament - more
info
Tuesday
8th December, 5pm for 6.30pm: An Evening With Ed Miliband, the last
chance to quiz the Secretary of State for Energy & Climate
Change before he goes to Copenhagen, Exchange Auditorium, Manchester
Central (map)
Thursday
10th December, 7pm: Transport sub-group meeting, Green Fish Resource
Centre, 46-50 Oldham St. (map)