There are various ways of describing the crises and their interrelations,
but an adequate approach will have to go right to the roots. For this we
need to take a long view and try to understand the dominant economic
system under and within which the majority of the earth’s population now
lives. ….…Read more (pdf file)
Pages
- About “A Green Deal for the Manchester-Mersey Bioregion” – main report and introduction
- Concepts for Bioregional Development
- Contact us
- Getting Started on the Economy
- Our pamphlets
- Relevant Reports – key background reading
- Sustainability: Utopian and Scientific
- The Manchester-Mersey Bioregion – and the bioregional concept.
Green New Deal concept
- Critique from the left of the NEF New Green Deal
- Critique of NEF new Green Deal “Green New Deals and the Unreal Economy”
- Debate: A Green New Deal — dead end or pathway beyond capitalism?
- Debate: A Green New Deal — dead end or pathway beyond capitalism?
- Green New Deal? – Derek Wall
- NEF follow up paper – "The Cuts Won't Work"
- NEF Green New Deal blog.
- NEF New Green Deal
- Prosperity Without Growth: The transition to a Sustainable Economy.
- Sheffield’s Green New Deal project
- Sustainable Development Commision: A Sustainable New Deal – pre-budget 2009 report
- The limits to growth: The real case for a green new deal
- UNEP Green Economy Initiative
Inititatives in the Manchester-Mersey Bioregion
- A Certain Future: Manchester's Climate Change Action Plan
- Abundance Manchester
- Action for Sustainable Living – active in Trafford and Manchester
- Call to real action
- City Growing in Manchester
- Flyer for the GreenDealManchester project
- Food Futures
- Madlab – community technology(?)
- Manchester City Council climate change initiative
- Manchester Climate Forum
- Manchester Permaculture Network
- Manchester Permaculture Network: Mark Burton's blog
- Manchester-Mersey Bioregional Green Deal Discussion paper v4.4
- Mersey Bioregion Interest Group
- Only planet
- Peak Awareness
- RS 2010 – The Northwest Regional Strategy consultation – NWRDA
- Steady State Manchester
- Sustainable Urban Food notes
- The Biospheric Foundation
- The Call to Real Action Report
- The Environment Network For Manchester
- The Irwell Group: A Radical Perspective on Climate Change Action in Manchester
- Trafford aquaponics
- Transition City Manchester
- Wild About Manchester (biodiversity)
Internal Links
- Buy a copy of the pamphlet
- Concepts for bioregional development – a glossary
- Concepts for bioregional development – a glossary
- Flyer for the GreenDealManchester project
- Help publicise the project !
- Manchester's food emissions
- Manchester-Mersey Bioregional Green Deal Discussion paper v4.4
- Mersey Bioregion Interest Group
- NEF follow up paper – "The Cuts Won't Work"
- News and events
- Resources on urban food production
- Some writers and activists who've influenced us
- Sustainability: Utopian and Scientific
- The Manchester Bioregion
- We need a new model of economic development
- What are the crises and what has caused them?
Learning from Cuba's green survival strategies
- Antonio Núñez Jiménez Foundation for Nature and Humanity
- “If one day there is no fuel left in this crazy, changing world, we should have our food close by”
- BBC Food Programme – from Havana to London !
- Cuba – the power of community
- Cuba at UN: “The very existence of the human species is at risk”
- CUBA: Scientists, Farmers Fighting Climate Change – Together
- Cuba: Viva la Revolucion Energetica
- Film: The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil:
- Green Cuba
- Havana’s Urban Organic Agricultural Revolution
- List of Green Cuba Resources from Cuba Education Tours
- Marx, the First Real Globalist
- Roberto Pérez video
- The Agroecological Revolution in Cuba (in Spanish)
- The Urban Agriculture of Havana
On the Economy
- A Failed Economy John Bellamy Foster
- Bankruptcies and bailouts – book with downloadable introduction and preface
- Climate and Capitalism
- Economic De-growth vs. the Steady State Economy: complements or contradiction
- Essays on Marxist Ecology – outstanding collection from Monthly Review
- Jobs in a shrinking economy – Peter Victor Video
- Marx, the First Real Globalist
- NEF follow up paper – "The Cuts Won't Work"
- Peter Custers: 'green means zero growth'
- Steady State Manchester
- Sustainability: Utopian and Scientific
- The urban roots of the fiscal crisis – David Harvey video
- Their crisis, our challenge – David Harvey, Red Pepper interview
- UNEP Green Economy Initiative
- Video: David Harvey — `The crises of capitalism'
Other helpful External Links
- A Sympathetic Critique of Localisation by Peter North
- Anti-global heating claims – a reasonably thorough debunking
- Appropedia
- Bartlett Developmental Planning Unit
- Bioregional – an NGO promoting sustainability on the bioregional scale
- Building Inclusive and Sustainable Communities Citizenship for all
- Critical Community Psychology
- Defending Health ansd Social Care – Rediscovering the Socialist Alternative.
- DegrowthPedia
- Essays on Marxist Ecology – outstanding collection from Monthly Review
- Evaluation of UK Climate Plan
- Future scenarios – David Holmgren’s work on mapping scenarios for peak oil and climate change.
- Goodbye to Cheap Oil
- hegemonics.co.uk (the Feelbad Britain group)
- Hoodwinked in the Hothouse”
- Macroscopic rebound effect
- Marx, the First Real Globalist
- Plan B – Danish permaculture focussing on bioregional level
- Post Carbon Cities
- Prosperity Without Growth: The transition to a Sustainable Economy.
- Regional Communities
- Relevant Reports – key background reading
- Rethinking the food system – Tim Lang
- SERA – Labour environment campaign
- Strategy for Losers
- Sustainable Urban Food notes
- The MST Wind Turbine School – video
- The Transtion Handbook
- The UK climate change action plan
- Transition Network News
- Transition Towns
- We Cannot Shop Our Way Out of the Problems – John Bellamy Foster
- What Next for the Global Climate Movement?
- Why Ecological Revolution? John Bellamy Foster
- Why no nuclear? (from CAT's ZCB site)
- Working at the edge
- World-systems theory (Wallerstein)
- Zero Carbon Britain
politics
Related campaigns
- 20's plenty for us
- Bank Run 2010
- Call to real action
- Campaign for Community Banking Services
- One Million Green Jobs Now!
- Petition against air freight expansion at Mcr Airport
- Steady State Manchester
- Support the Post Bank
- The Call to Real Action Report
- Vestas wind turbine factory campaign
- What Next for the Global Climate Movement?