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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Transition City Manchester are bringing to you a community premier in Manchester:

Crude: The real price of oil - free film screening
Thursday 28th October, 6.30-9.00pm
John Dalton Lecture Hall (CO.14), MMU, Oxford Rd, Manchester

Directed by Joe Berlinger, this film is about a source of oil discovered in the Amazon rainforest, which has become one of the largest and most controversial environmental legal cases on the planet. It shows how their oil extraction system led to extreme, systematic pollution, which had devastating effects on the local indigenous communities and infringes upon human rights. View the trailor here: www.crudethemovie.com/trailer-and-photos/ .

This event is open to everyone, so please book now and bring all your friends and colleagues at: http://crudemanchester.eventbrite.com  Or email transitioncitymanchester@googlemail.com  

With thanks to Manchester Metropolitan University and Action for Sustainable Living.
We will be taking small donations to cover the cost of the licence.

FREE sustainability programme for third sector organisations in Greater Manchester

MERCi is one of the leading sustainable development charities in the North West of England. We run and manage programmes to enable individuals, groups and organisations to live and work in a more sustainable way; environmentally, socially and economically.

The SUSTAINING CHANGE programme is a Big Lottery Funded programme which aims to work with the third sector (charities, voluntary and community organisations, social enterprises, cooperatives) to operate in a more sustainable way. We do this through offering FREE sustainability audits, FREE training, a FREE members network, FREE events and FREE peer mentoring.

We currently have 82 programme members throughout Greater Manchester. However, the representation from the green/ environmental sector is lacking. The programme doesn't just focus on environmental practices- an area in which these groups already excel. It also looks at the social aspects of sustainability; how do you include staff and service users in decision making; how do you ensure your service users are getting the service they want; how do you promote and market your successes, if at all; how do you create mutually benefical partnerships.....

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