The Leeds Permaculture Network and the Manchester Permaculture Network, along with reforestation charity Treesponsibility
Events
03 / 29
(all day)
Start: 28 Mar 2008 - 7:00pm
End: 30 Mar 2008 - 5:00pm
Start: 11:00 am
End: 1:00 pm
SIGNS OF SPRING. A Start: 4:00 pm
End: 6:00 pm
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03 / 30
End: 5:00 pm
Start: 28 Mar 2008 - 7:00pm
End: 30 Mar 2008 - 5:00pm
The Leeds Permaculture Network and the Manchester Permaculture Network, along with reforestation charity Treesponsibility Start: 1:00 pm
End: 1:59 pm
info@ibikemcr.org.uk | ||
03 / 31
Start: 1:00 pm
Start: 31 Mar 2008 - 1:00pm
End: 2 Apr 2008 - 2:00pm
There is now huge pressure on university and college staff and students to become more engaged with sustainability and sustainable development practice. Yet most staff development programmes and academic curricula still fail to deliver the competencies, knowledge, skills and attitudes needed if the goal of sustainability is to be achieved. | ||
04 / 1
(all day)
Start: 31 Mar 2008 - 1:00pm
End: 2 Apr 2008 - 2:00pm
There is now huge pressure on university and college staff and students to become more engaged with sustainability and sustainable development practice. Yet most staff development programmes and academic curricula still fail to deliver the competencies, knowledge, skills and attitudes needed if the goal of sustainability is to be achieved. Start: 10:00 am
End: 10:59 am
… Pull a prank that packs a punch. Find a local fossil fool – the coal-mining clown, the offset | ||
04 / 2
End: 2:00 pm
Start: 31 Mar 2008 - 1:00pm
End: 2 Apr 2008 - 2:00pm
There is now huge pressure on university and college staff and students to become more engaged with sustainability and sustainable development practice. Yet most staff development programmes and academic curricula still fail to deliver the competencies, knowledge, skills and attitudes needed if the goal of sustainability is to be achieved. Start: 7:30 pm
Start: 2 Apr 2008 - 7:30pm
End: 3 Apr 2008 - 12:00am
SHOWING SHORT FILM INCLUDING: Kiss | ||
04 / 3
End: 12:00 am
Start: 2 Apr 2008 - 7:30pm
End: 3 Apr 2008 - 12:00am
SHOWING SHORT FILM INCLUDING: Kiss Start: 6:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
Afsl staff and volunteers will be meeting up at Afewe's, Royce Road in Hulme from 5pm on Thursday 3rd April. Come along to meet other volunteers and find out whats going on with AfSL related projects over a drink or two! This will form part of a monthly AfSL get together every first thursday of the month. We are planning to change venues so hopefully everyone will be able to come along at some point. Please forward any ideas for future venues to Jess (volunteer coordinator). All welcome to this event. See you there! Start: 7:00 pm
End: 10:00 pm
We are a group of like-minded community focussed people from Manchester, working to create a sustainable eco village project in southern bulgaria. Our group is at a stage of purchasing land after a good deal of searching and are keen to spread the word about the project, gain as much informaition and as many new ideas as possible and expand the group to people who want to be involved, want to keep track of developments or who are in the network of ecolgically minded projects and just want to know more. Start: 8:00 pm
End: 9:30 pm
A programme of workshops for the public. Thursday evenings (7.00 – 8.30pm) from 3rd April to 5th June 2008 in Central Manchester. Start: 8:00 pm
End: 9:30 pm
A programme of workshops for the public. This course is for all those interested in Climate Change and its | ||
04 / 4
Start: 1:00 am
End: 1:10 pm
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04 / 5
Start: 2:00 pm
End: 5:00 pm
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04 / 6
Start: 1:00 pm
Clitical Mass Ladies Bike ride to Reclaim the roads and feel confident | ||
04 / 7
Start: 7:30 pm
End: 9:00 pm
The forest gardening course is underway and has involved good numbers for the last two sessions. Sessions are open, if you would like to come along to future evenings. There is also a design day planned, to practise the use of permaculture design at a micro-level, to do a detailed design of one of the forest garden quadrents. There is also a day out planned, to visit the long established Bangor Forest Garden. Dates: four Monday evening sessions to run on 10th & 17th March and 7th & 14th | ||
04 / 8
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04 / 9
Start: 2:00 pm
End: 3:00 pm
All cyclists, current and prospective, ex-cyclists and | ||
04 / 10
Start: 6:45 pm
End: 9:00 pm
The Voluntary Sector Forum is the Mersey Basin Campaign’s annual event | ||
04 / 11
Start: 1:00 pm
End: 1:59 pm
To participate in this event please register ASAP by emailing Followed by party at The Sandbar, everyone welcome (whether participating Start: 1:00 pm
End: 6:00 pm
Pride in NeighbOURhood is an umbrella campaign incorporating a number of smaller initiatives promoting information around the waste management principle of "Reduce, Reuse and Recycle" as well as effective waste disposal and the discouragement of littering, flytipping, dog fouling to name a few areas of community interest. | ||
04 / 12
Start: 1:15 pm
Launching!! Launching!! Launching!!! Start: 3:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Dress yourself and your bike up for a bike art parade that will finish | ||
04 / 13
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04 / 14
Start: 6:45 pm
End: 8:00 pm
Sust Swap Shop returns on the 14th April. The collaboration between Action for Sustainable Living, Manchester Friends of the Earth and the Make Trade Fair Society at Manchester University has been running regularly since last October with each event gaining in popularity. The idea is easy: bring clean, good quality clothes that you no longer want and exchange them for other peoples' items. Start: 7:30 pm
End: 9:00 pm
The forest gardening course is underway and has involved good numbers for the last two sessions. Sessions are open, if you would like to come along to future evenings. There is also a design day planned, to practise the use of permaculture design at a micro-level, to do a detailed design of one of the forest garden quadrents. There is also a day out planned, to visit the long established Bangor Forest Garden. Dates: four Monday evening sessions to run on 10th & 17th March and 7th & 14th | ||
04 / 15
Start: 4:00 pm
End: 6:00 pm
Christopher Tweed | ||
04 / 16
Start: 6:15 pm
End: 8:30 pm
The University of Manchester, GMPTE, TRU, and ILT seminar
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04 / 17
Start: 11:00 am
End: 1:00 pm
Withington library have invited AfSL to to give a talk at their next coffee morning on Thursday April 17th, . This will be to promote the sustainable living drop-in session that we will be holding for Withington residents to seek advice, and to discuss issues with attendants of the coffee morning. Start: 3:00 pm
End: 5:00 pm
monthly drop in providing info on a variety of topics such as immigration advice, household improvement help, sustainable living info, fire safety, help with healthy living... and much more with plenty of freebees and refreshments and a raffle. Start: 3:00 pm
End: 5:00 pm
AfSL has a desk at the monthly Northmoor Community Centre information drop in sessions. Come by for refreshments, to chat, or with queries on any of the following topics; housing, community safety, sustainable living, environment, development, health, ward coordination or immigration advice. April's session will run on Thursday 17th. Each event is brightened with a theme, for example, on the 14th February we ate heart shaped biscuits and drank non-alcoholic cocktails for valentines day! | ||
04 / 18
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04 / 19
Start: 11:00 am
The forest gardening course is underway and has involved good numbers for the last two sessions. Sessions are open, if you would like to come along to future evenings. This event is about using permaculture design principles and will take place in a yurt! email kirsty on amidreaming[at]riseup.net for more Start: 11:00 am
End: 5:00 pm
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 2:00 pm
Community group Sustainable Chorlton will be taking to the streets of Chorlton to consult the public about what campaigns they care about most in their area. So if you've got a burning desire to see the trees around Chorlton protected, or want to start up a guerilla gardening society or even if you'd like the local restaurants to curb their use of plastic bottles, this is your chance to have your say! | ||
04 / 20
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 12:59 pm
Get stuck-in helping the Friends of Fletcher Moss and the Wardens to Start: 2:00 pm
End: 7:00 pm
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04 / 21
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04 / 22
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04 / 23
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04 / 24
Start: 8:30 pm
End: 10:20 pm
Manchester City Council to come under | ||
04 / 25
Start: 9:00 am
End: 9:35 am
Manchester's Critical Commute happens on the last Friday of every month. The purpose of Critical Commute is:
It is entirely law abiding and does not attempt to stop or slow down traffic. The starting points are as follows: Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
Last Friday of every month. Bike ride around the city to celebrate the bicycle! Start: 7:00 pm
Start: 25 Apr 2008 - 7:00pm
End: 26 Apr 2008 - 5:00am
Ride to celebrate the bicycle. For
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04 / 26
End: 5:00 am
Start: 25 Apr 2008 - 7:00pm
End: 26 Apr 2008 - 5:00am
Ride to celebrate the bicycle. For
Start: 11:29 am
See our second floor transformed into a green oasis with this exhibition which brings gardening into the gallery! Urban Gardening explores what some people argue is Britain’s finest contribution to the visual arts and certainly the nations most absorbing pastime. The impact of climate change and issues of sustainability will run through the exhibition, tackling the effects of urban sprawl on the ecology of our cities. From the neglected back alley to the high rise tower block, the exhibition will show how green fingers and green thinking can help transform city spaces into urban oases. Start: 12:00 pm
End: 5:00 pm
A day of celebration of the variety of people and groups that use Platt Start: 1:00 pm
The second floor will be transformed into a green oasis with this | ||
04 / 27
Start: 2:00 pm
End: 4:00 pm
Join the Friends of Chorlton Meadows in this litter picking event, part | ||
04 / 28
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