Manchester Climate Fortnightly is two

Article published: Monday, June 7th 2010

Manchester MULE would like to wish a very happy birthday to Manchester Climate Fortnightly, which this week celebrates two years and the release of issue number 50.

Known to its readers as MCFly, the freesheet has been steadfastly reporting from our rainy city and beyond since 2008. Local environmentalist, founder and editor Marc Hudson saw the need for independent, serious, critical news and analysis of all things climate-related at the local level.

Edited until recently by Marc and Arwa Aburawa, and with regular cartoons from satirist Marc Roberts, MCFly covers pretty much every environmental event in Manchester you probably would never have heard of. It also provides listings of all the environmental goings-on around the city.

Run entirely by volunteers – many of them secret – MCFly has certainly kept to its independence over the last couple of years, has never been afraid to criticise anyone and everyone, and has consistently managed to be more sarcastic than us at MULE.

Hudson is currently releasing a series of short videos on YouTube explaining how environmentalism and local policy is made in Manchester and what’s behind the bureaucracy and spin. The first, republished here, takes a look at how Manchester City Council operates.

Issue 50 can be found here and the website is here. Stay updated via the Facebook group here.

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And to anyone who wants to come and help MCFly celebrate those 50 issues – join us in the Sand Bar, Grosvenor St, Wednesday 19th June, 8pm-late.
Comment by MCFly on June 8, 2010 at 6:27 pm
Sorry – typo – Wednesday 9th June. Haven’t started on the beers 24 hours early, honest.
Comment by MCFly on June 8, 2010 at 6:29 pm

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