Greening Campaign organise Green Deal event for communities

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Carbon Co-op is speaking about our Community Green Deal programme at an information and training event on Green Deal organised by the Greening Campaign. This free event is targetted towards community leaders, green groups and landlords and is an introduction to Green Deal's relevance to community organisations. It takes place at 7.30pm on 24th April … Read more

Carbon Co-op technical partners demonstrate 80% retrofit is possible and at the right price

A new report by the Technology Strategy Board, launched at this year's EcoBuild conference, demonstrates household retrofit to reduce carbon emissions by over 80% is acheivable and at affordable prices with Carbon Co-op technical partners URBED leading the way in the sector. The report, Retrofit Revealed, is an evaluation of the Retrofit for the Future programme which saw different organisations and companies work … Read more

Carbon Co-op AGM 2013

Many thanks to everyone who made it down to the Carbon Co-op 2013 AGM which took place on Monday 18th March at MadLab in central Manchester. The event was well attended with around half the membership present along with several non-members and interested parties. Chaired by Phil Korbel, the evening saw an overview of the … Read more

Carbon Co-op Christmas Social

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Following our Open Source Energy Monitor workshop (for details see below) we’ll be holding a social at Common Bar, Northern Quarter, Manchester City Centre. 6pm onwards, Thursday 13th December 2012 Common Bar, 39 Edge Street Manchester, Greater Manchester M4 1HW It will be very informal, a chance to meet others, update on the progress of … Read more

Open Source Energy Monitor build – help needed

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Carbon Co-op have been working with openenergymonitor.org, to produce innovative, modular, home environment monitors using open source hardware and software. Now we need people to help us build them. Midday-6pm, Thursday 13th December 2012 MadLab, 36-40 Edge Street, Manchester M4 1HN Unlike conventional energy monitors, the kit is flexible, modular and totally open source. They … Read more