Jonathan Atkinson 
We’re looking forward to a busy day at the Community Energy Conference 2019 in Sheffield this weekend (Saturday 22nd June), we’ll be talking about retrofit, new online energy tools, local flexibility and a range of other things, here’s an outline of what we’ll be up to. People Powered Retrofit project report Since Autumn 2018, we’ve … Read more
The Carbon Co-op Annual General 2019 took place on Friday 26th April 2019 at the Friends Meeting House in Manchester and was followed by an event examining the Green New Deal and its impact on homes and housing. You can read a pre-event primer about the Green New Deal and housing here. The event featured … Read more
Ahead of our AGM event at Friends Meeting House, Jonathan Atkinson takes a look at the key issues. As the case for radical action on climate change grows ever stronger, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ed Markey and others within the progressive wing of the Democratic Party are advocating a Green New Deal for the United States.Inspired by … Read more
Author Kate De Selincourt reports on the one-day People Powered Retrofit ‘Service Design Lab’, organised by Carbon Co-op and URBED that took place at Bridge 5 Mill in February 2019.
As part of our People Powered Retrofit Project to develop a new market for retrofit in Greater Manchester, we have been looking at the role that the planning system plays and exploring how planning policy could be used.
As energy organisations, academics and companies gathered in Paris to attend the UK-France Smart Energy Bilateral Workshop and discuss all things ‘smart’, Jonathan Atkinson reports on the event and what he took from it.