Works are complete at the Tait's home in Chorlton South Manchester as another member achieves their whole house retrofit ambitions. Julian and Sophie were part of our original cohort for the Community Green Deal programme. However, issues with the contractor for that scheme meant they then had to procure their works themselves. They were however … Read more
Winter, and especially the months after Christmas feel like a good time to look back on the past year's progress and to look ahead. This year, Carbon Co-op Project Manager, Jonathan Atkinson, has taken part in a couple of events; the 'Community Energy Think Tank' organised by Housing Plus Academy at Trafford Hall and Future … Read more
On Monday 13th February 2017, Cooler Projects organised an #OurManifesto Climate Change Workshop with Labour's Greater Manchester Mayoral candidate Andy Burnham. Below is our written response to the #OurManifesto call out. Our highest priority manifesto pledge for climate change would be… A pledge to tackle our ageing housing stock and ever rising energy bills by … Read more
On the 12th of January was last EcoHomeLab session and we had the pleasure to admire 😉 Trystan's new electric bike. A very cool one that he built himself from a DIY kit. We were 10 people this time, 3 of whom were new or almost new to EcoHomeLab: an Arduino user who wanted to … Read more
This January, Carbon Co-op have begun to install smart meter extension (SMX) devices as part of Nobel Grid beginning with Halton Mill, a business centre which forms part of the Lancaster Cohousing development. Lancaster Co-housing is a co-operative co-housing development in Lancaster in the North West of England consisting of 60 new households built to … Read more
And we are now in 2017, happy new year? Let’s hope so… Last EcoHomeLab of 2016 happened on the 12th of December at Madlab as usual. We were quite a lot of people, 13 of us munching mince pies. I was worried that it was going to be a session without content as the original … Read more