About organic farming, gardening, food, simple living, sustainability, ecology. Soul is more important than coal. This is an article I wrote for the Mercury. It has been reported that that this September has shown the highest temperatures recorded globally since 1880, when records began. After all this doom and gloom what does Spring portend for us? .

Making Manchester low-carbon and high-resilience. Action Plan and November 30 Survey. August 10, 2010 by calltorealaction. July 18, 2010 by calltorealaction.

A better future for a troubled world. Dark Optimism is the not-for-profit public interest research, activism. And writing of Shaun Chamberlin. Working with a wide network of friends and partners around the world. We are unashamedly positive about what kind of a world humanity could create, and unashamedly realistic about how far we are. Heroes and villains in Copenhagen, and beyond.

Climate Change in Manchester - all the news from the Manchester Climate Fortnightly Newsletter, plus extra info and comment. Monday, 19 July 2010. MCFly has got a new web site-. Friday, 18 June 2010. Steering Group meets at long long last.

Friday, 26 November 2010. PED has moved to wordpress. Here is the new site. Saturday, 9 October 2010. UNFCCCC talks go nowhere - Colour Me Amazed. UN climate talks in China have ended without a major breakthrough. Sunday, 22 August 2010.

just drop me a line. Peterloo - Witnesses to a massacre. Bringing to life the events of the 1819 Peterloo Massacre, using dialogue drawn exclusively from period documents. A powerful testimony to the 1819 massacre. Get your copy here! Writer of the Clangers.

Notes on politics, journalism, local news, environment and re-discovered roots. Tuesday, May 11, 2010. Which is a easier to use. Thursday, September 10, 2009.

Crisis, what crisis? El SmackDown Climatico Internacional de Gort y Klaatu. April 7, 2010 by climateslamdown. And who, exactly, should operationalize it? Can We Trust Our Data? Britain brandished .