The Irwell Group’s website is now live. It promotes ‘a radical approach to climate change in Manchester’. We aim to provide a constructive challenge to those taking action on climate change in Manchester.

We hope to offer fresh perspectives and ideas that will provoke new ways of looking at the problems and inspire different and better solutions. We do this through publications focusing on change in Manchester and the organisation of occasional events to promote discussion.

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The "Green New Deal for the Manchester-Mersey Bioregion" discussion paper has been updated and expanded.  It now includes some discussion of the bioregion in question and a more robust analysis of the causes of the triple crisis we are now facing (energy, climate, economy). 

It could perhaps be seen as the application of permaculture thinking on a bioregional basis - a kind of stacking of all the zones maybe.

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