Carbon Co-op Autumn Programe

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Carbon Co-op social Saturday 10th September 2016 At Tea Hive, Alexandra Park Pavillion, Alexandra Park, Whalley Range, Manchester Coinciding with Community Energy Fortnight and the Superhomes open weekend. Book here: https://carbon-coop-social-2016.eventbrite.co.uk   Routes to Retrofit seminars 24th September/8th October 2016 Looking to commission largescale energy efficiency building works on your home? Delivered by architects and … Read more

Fuelling Manchester – Tuesday 28th June 2016

Fuelling Manchester is the networking meetup for people and groups involved in community renewables around Greater Manchester. This is purely a social event, there is no agenda and no structure just an opportunity to meet with like-minded individuals to chat, discuss and network. 6pm, Tuesday 28th June 2016 Castle Hotel Pub, Oldham Street, Manchester Book here: http://www.meetup.com/Fuelling-Manchester-meetup/events/231359618/ … Read more

Beyond Paris: Carbon Co-op AGM 2016 videos

These videos show the presentations made at the Carbon Co-op AGM in April 2016. The theme for the presentations was about the 2015 Paris Climate Change talks and how these broader, global targets relate to the work of local Community Energy organisations like Carbon Co-op carry out. Kevin Anderson, Tyndall Centre Climate scientist Kevin Anderson … Read more

Carbon Co-op AGM event report: The role of early adopters in catalysing broader, deeper action on climate change

This year's AGM event, which took place on 7th April 2016 at Bridge 5 Mill, featured an illuminating set of presentations outlining the role of Carbon Co-op's energy efficient retrofit projects in the context of increasingly challenging global climate change targets with the Q&A discussion featuring debate on the role community energy organisations like us … Read more

Carbon Co-op – Committee Member Nominees 2016

Jane Massam I am Jane Massam. I am a Horticulturist. I teach a range of students aged between 16 and 50, with and without special educational needs and emotional andbehavioural issues at Tameside College in Ashton–under-Lyne. I work closely with Tameside council to deliver my Horticultural courses. I am a member of the Carbon Coop … Read more

Beyond Paris – how can energy efficiency co-operatives contribute to achieving 2050 targets?

To paraphrase the great Douglas Adams, author of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Climate Change is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. It's so big that new evidence suggests many of us don't even talk about it any more (http://www.climateconviction.org). Which may be something of a barrier … Read more