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Community action/Manchester/Community climate action and ecological restoration

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front gate of Hulme Community Garden Centre, March 2021, Author: Kim Foale

This article is the beginnings of a page for Community action/Manchester in response to Climate emergency and Ecological emergency. The first part focuses on climate action and other sustainability topics with high relevance to carbon reduction for communities. The second part covers environment and ecological restoration topics.

Climate action

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Climate emergency declared in 2019. Manchester aiming to be a zero-carbon city by 2038.

Climate change solutions

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People Powered Retrofit, retrofit.coop, not-for-profit service for householders in Greater Manchester, offering clear, independent advice. added 12:36, 22 October 2021 (UTC)

Ethical consumerism

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The Dispensary, Salford, thedispensarysalford.com, zero waste shop & community hub also selling fresh fruit and veg. added 08:44, 22 October 2021 (UTC)

Cycling activism

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Love Your Bike campaign based in Greater Manchester, co-ordinated by Manchester Friends of the Earth

Blogs

Mad Cycle Lanes of Manchester

Environment quality

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Open spaces

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Manchester has six designated Local Nature Reserves which are Chorlton Water Park (Wikipedia), Blackley Forest, Clayton Vale and Chorlton Ees, Ivy Green, Boggart Hole Clough (Wikipedia) and Highfield Country Park (Wikipedia). W

Trees, woodland and forest

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City of Trees, movement to re-invigorate Greater Manchester's landscape by transforming underused, unloved woodland and planting a tree for every man, woman and child who lives there, within a generation

Red Rose Forest, community forest in western and central Greater Manchester, England. It was founded in 1991 and is expected to take 40 years to develop and mature, with the aim of involving communities in safeguarding and creating a woodland flora for the future, and helping preserve the fast disappearing flora of British woodlands. The population within the Forest boundary amounts to 1.5 million, making it the largest urban community forest in the United Kingdom.

The main aim is to get greenery where people can appreciate it every day. This includes street trees, green roofs and green spaces. Red Rose Forest's Green Streets team works with local communities on unique and innovative greening projects to improve the quality of life for urban communities. The value of greening as a means of tackling a range of social, health and economic issues is huge. Red Rose Forest offers many ways for the people to get involved in their environment including the general public through their Friends of the Forest scheme, businesses through sponsorship and communities through the Green Streets project. W

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