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Good energy in Manchester: hope, revelation and 'Grid 2.0'

Posted by bex on 5 October 2007.

Update (15/10/2007): Our video interview with Pete Bradshaw of Man City FC is now included:

And there's a podcast from the event on BusinessAssurance.com.

I've been an avid (my friends might say evangelical) fan of decentralised energy ever since I first got my head around it. When I started working for Greenpeace, the organisation was in full swing on a decentralised energy campaign and part of my job was to communicate what it is and why it can do so much more than nuclear to combat climate change.

There have followed 20 months (for me) of virtual shouting from the rooftops. Films have been produced; countless blogs have been written; submissions have been made to energy reviews and audit committees; our campaigners and policy boffins have met with government representatives; dozens of volunteers have visited MPs; many thousands more have written to theirs.

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climate change, decentralised energy, renewable energy, events, manchester, ecotricity, manchester city football club, SDC, energy 2.0, green alliance

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Manchester City Football Club, Greenpeace and Ecotricity join forces to fight climate change

26 Sep 2007

The world's greenest football club – Manchester City – is teaming up with Greenpeace and leading green energy company Ecotricity to combat global warming.

The City of Manchester Stadium, which is set to be the first football ground in the world to be powered by green energy when they erect an 85 metre wind turbine, will broadcast a new film showing the solution to climate change on Thursday evening.

The film, called The Convenient Solution, is a follow-up to last year’s hit documentary about climate change from Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth.

And after the film Bury North MP David Chaytor will be chairing a discussion on global warming, where he’ll be joined by the Blues’ chief executive Alistair Mackintosh and experts from Greenpeace, Ecotricity and Manchester City Council.

Manchester businesses are at the cutting edge of environmentally friendly energy. Manchester’s Royal Brewery, who appears in the film, are using spent grain to power and heat the brewery.

Greenpeace's Chief Scientist Dr Doug Parr said: "Man City are the greenest football club in the world. By putting up a wind turbine and teaming up with Greenpeace and Ecotricity to host this important event, they’re really nailing their colours to the wall in the battle against global warming.

"This important new film shows how to drastically reduce our use of climate wrecking fossil fuels, and explains why nuclear power isn't the answer to global warming."

WHERE:
Manchester City Football Club, City of Manchester Stadium, SportCity, Manchester M11 3FF.

WHEN:
6.30pm – 9.30pm, 27th September 2007.

For more information, contact the Greenpeace press office: 020 7865 8255.

Tags: climate change, press releases, manchester, ecotricity, manchester city football club

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