Our delayed Community Green Deal programme kicked off in January with 12 homes receiving a whole house retrofit. It's a unique and ambitious project with average works costs of £40,500 per household and total carbon savings of 1,150 tonnes across the lifetime of the programme. We are working with URBED as technical partners, Rochdale-based construction … Read more
Thanks to funding from the Green Open Homes Network, we've teamed up with Action for Sustainable Living and will be running a couple of weekends of open homes visits and bus tours from 17th-25th May 2014. Look out for further details and if you have a home with eco measures you'd like to showcase then … Read more
After a brief hiatus Eco-home Lab, our open source energy monitor club, is back. The next date is…5.30pm-8.30pm, Friday 13th March 2014 at MadLab, Edge Street, Manchester. It's completely free and you can register your place here: http://www.meetup.com/Eco-Home-Lab-Manchester/ It's a great place to learn about and experiment with the monitors but a degree of prior … Read more
After a year's absence, the Chorlton Green Festival is returning on Saturday 26th April 2014 at St Clements Church, Edge Lane, Chorlton. In the past it's been a huge gathering for all things green, low carbon and sustainable in the city. We'll be running a stall at the festival so drop in and say hello, we're … Read more
Fuelling Manchester are inviting people and organisations to get involved in the creation of a Greater Manchester Community Energy Strategy. We're inviting people to attend a strategy writing day: 12.30pm-5pm, Wednesday 26th March 2014at Bridge 5 Mill, 22a Beswick Street, Manchester M7 4HR To register for this event please email: info@communityrenewables.org.ukPreparation and further reading for … Read more
Once a month, we put your household energy efficiency questions to specialists, architects and engineers. The sessions are streamed live and videos archived for later viewing. Just one of the benefits open exclusively to Carbon Co-op members. For more information and to sign up for Carbon Co-op visit our membership page: