We all want warmer, comfier, greener homes with lower bills but sometimes it seems the options are either to stump up a load of cash for an expensive consultant and builder or go with a retrofit council scheme where you get little choice on how it turns out – but might there be a third … Read more
On Wednesday 19th of April we gathered at Todmorden College for the third workshop in this series to talk about the relationship between retrofit and making our homes more able to withstand and recover from flooding events. Our colleague Helen took the group of attendees through the various building-level impacts of flooding, in particular the … Read more
On a snowy Saturday morning in Todmorden, residents got together to learn how to make their homes more airtight! The session hosted by Carbon Co-op, is the second of a four-part series of workshops as a part of Retrofit Calderdale. We started off by spending some time navigating our way through the relationship between draughtproofing … Read more
Carbon Co-op’s new Community Forum has gone live! This is a new space for people to get involved in helping people and communities to make the radical reductions on home carbon emissions that we need to avoid runaway climate change. The Community is a place where members can share retrofit projects, home energy tips and … Read more
In 2015, we commissioned a series of profiles, short videos that looked at the different ways Carbon Co-op members have chosen to improve their homes. From a full scale, whole house retrofit to an iterative approach over many years. From completely DIY to a fully managed and Carbon Co-op procured model. Each video looks at … Read more
Back in September, as part of the Carbon Co-op in Stockport project, one of our members, Julian Tomlin, and his wife Helena held a Community Workshop at their home in Heaton Moor. Here Julian tells us how it went. A group of friends and neighbours came together in a workshop to discuss how we might … Read more