Category Archives: analysis

Greater Manchester’s Places for Everyone Plan: the Carbon Impact

Posted on 16 July, 2022 by The Steady State Manchester team

Download the report, latest version (pdf, 0.6 MB) Download the previous version (pdf, 0.6 MB) We are pleased to publish this report. It makes a high level estimate of the carbon emissions that would result from implementing Places for Everyone, … Continue reading →

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One of Spain’s governing parties adopts degrowth

Posted on 7 June, 2022 by The Steady State Manchester team

Foreword We are pleased to publish this translation of an interview with two members of the Spanish political party Izquierda Unida (IU – United Left)1, Eva García and Alberto Garzón. Alberto is currently the Minister of Consumer Affairs and national … Continue reading →

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Community or Consumption: Social Ecology in Greater Manchester

Posted on 7 April, 2022 by The Steady State Manchester team

A guest article, by anon It’s an inevitability for anything written on the topic of Manchester to mention or make even the most minute reference to the city’s past as the birthplace of the industrial revolution. From the worker bee … Continue reading →

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Greater Manchester is overspending its carbon budget and Places for Everyone will make it much worse.

Posted on 24 March, 2022 by The Steady State Manchester team

byMark Burton (Steady State Manchester)andMatthew Broadbent (Save Greater Manchester Green Belt) Download as a pdf file This post is also available at Save Greater Manchester’s Green Belt and The Meteor The Greater Manchester Environment Plan isn’t delivering. minor edits, 12 … Continue reading →

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Beyond a Green New Deal: book review

Posted on 1 February, 2022 by The Steady State Manchester team

Beyond a Green New Deal Essay review: Max Ajl, “A People’s Green New Deal”, Pluto Press, 2021. Paperback £14.99 or open access download. Mark H Burton If you’ve read our commentaries then you’ll know that we have major reservations about … Continue reading →

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UK Government’s Net Zero Strategy – a critical review

Posted on 18 November, 2021 by The Steady State Manchester team

a guest piece by Peter Somerville In this devastating critique, Peter Somerville makes a detailed examination of the UK Government’s Net Zero Strategy. Read his review in full here. He begins by setting the strategy in context. When the government … Continue reading →

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Can Cop26 lead to a viable future? The Meteor interviews us.

Posted on 6 November, 2021 by The Steady State Manchester team

The Meteor is an increasingly indispensable source of news for Greater Manchester an beyond. It is a worker co-op “a not-for-profit, independent media co-operative – an alternative, radical, community-based publication for the people of Manchester.” Conrad Bower, editor and co-founder, … Continue reading →

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A Viable Future? Explorations in post-growth – free ebook

Posted on 8 October, 2021 by The Steady State Manchester team

Our collection of writings is now available. A Viable Future? Explorations in post-growth from Steady State Manchester is a collection of our work from the last decade. This monster (it’s nearly 400 pages long) is available as a free ebook, … Continue reading →

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