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| Title and Date | Numbers attending and what happened | Publication |
| "The Science of Climate Change", Thursday Feb 15th 2007 | 75 people heard Dr Kevin Anderson of the Tyndall Centre give an account of the findings of the latest IPCC report, and an explanation of the urgent need for immediate and drastic demand reduction (as opposed to waiting for new 'low-carbon' energy generation to come on line) | feb 15th booklet |
| "Solving Climate Change?" Weds March 28th 2007 |
Approx 40 people heard presentations on the different tecnological fixes for Climate Change. And an excellent critique of the Channel 4 mockumentary "The Great Global Warming Swindle" | march 28th booklet |
| "Climate Change: Information for Action" Saturday May 19th 2007 |
Approx 30 people (see a trajectory here?!) who didn't want to watch the FA cup or study for their exams, were able to attend a wide variety of workshops (see programme) | |
| Multicultural Training for Environmental Activists Tuesday 3rd July 2007 |
A group of climate and environmental activists took part in very interesting and useful training delivered by Robina Ahmed | |
| "Climate Change: What's coming and what YOU can do in
Manchester" Thursday October 25th |
About 65 people heard from Professor Geraint Vaughan of Manchester Unvieristy, who gave a clear and disturbing presentation, followed by detailed and lively answers. After a break, there were 'micro-presentations' from many of the groups active in Manchester. A well-attended and well-facilitated meeting, that finished on time. For the first time, there were stalls in the concourse, so people could browse reading materials etc. | october 25th booklet |
| The Great Aviation Debate (Nov 15th 2007) | About 165 people (yes, one hundred and sixty five) heard from six panellists with different views about the future of aviation. Excellently moderated by Colin Sykes of the BBC | Great Aviation Debate booklet |
| Bali and Beyond and "What to DO in 2008" (Feb 12th 2008) |
About 40 to 45 people heard from Deepak Rughani of Biofuelwatch about the outcomes of the Bali climate negotiations, and then were forced to actually talk to other people that they didn't know (very un-British) in a second half made up of icebreaking and brainstorming | very didactic booklet will be posted here... |
| Climate Change: it's time to prepare (March 1st 2008) | About
60 people through the course of the day (but never more than 45 at any
one time) attended various workshops through the course of a day,
topped off with a final session working in small groups. Next time, MCF will organise fewer, longer workshops, with a mid-afternoon break for mingling... | booklet will be here soon-ish |
| Council debate April 24 2008 | Prospective Councillors from Labour, Tories, Lib Dems and Greens debate whether Council is doing enough on Climate Change | |
| TIF and Climate Change Debate July 31 2008 | About 60 people, overwhelmingly male. And the TIF went down in flames a few months later. Cause and effect, I ask you? | |
| Climate Strategies day Sept 6th 2008 | Not brilliantly attended, but quality not quantity, eh? Back in the day when we were STILL waiting on the Council to move on this issue. | |
| Climate Change: Global and Local (Poznan and Beyond) February 10th | Dr Vicky Johnson of new economics foundation and Cllr Richard Cowell (Exec member for the Environment) and about 35 people- quality not quantity, because from this meeting emerged the Call to Real Action process (sort of) | |
| Climate Change: A Year from Now August 4 2009 | Boff, about 40 people heard from Cllr Richard Cowell, Dina Baird of Stop Climate Chaos and also Mark Burton of Call to Real Action. Tories invited, but didn't show up or send apologies. Friends Meeting House, 6 Mount St | |
| Manchester's Ecosystems Weds Sept 16 | About
12 people in a smaller meeting room, talking about the political,
economic, ecological and "activist" ecosystems of Manchester Friends Meeting House, 6 Mount St | |
| Manchester's Action Plans Weds Oct 21st | Richard Sharland, Director of Environmental Strategy for Manchester City Council Friends Meeting House, 6 Mount St | |
| Copenhagen and the Climate Change Action Plan Weds Nov 18th | 40
minutes tops on Copenhagen, followed by an hour and 20 minutes on the
Call to Real Action, its response to the Climate Change Action Plan and
its "A day in the life" Friends Meeting House, 6 Mount St | |
| We Marched. Now What? Tuesday 8th December | Post-Wave event to be held at the Friends Meeting House, 6 Mount St |