It's Co-operatives Fortnight and The Co-operative Awards 2013 shortlist has been announced with Carbon Co-op featuring in two categories: 'Small Co-op, Big Achiever' and 'Most Innovative Co-operative'. It's a real honour to be nominated and demonstrates the huge progress we've made in the past year. We'll be there with the other shortlisted co-operatives when the … Read more
Community renewables and retrofit social for Greater Manchester, Thursday 27th June 2013 6pm-9pm, Thursday 27th June 2013, Marble Arch Pub, 73 Rochdale Rd, Manchester M4 4HY Fuelling Manchester is the networking meetup for people and groups involved in community renewables around Greater Manchester. This is purely a social event, there will be no agenda and no structure just an … Read more
Do you live in the borough of Stockport? Would you like to reduce your house energy bills, improve energy efficiency and help the environment too? 10am-2pm, Saturday 22nd June, Staircase House, Stockport Town Centre, SK1 1ES Book here: https://carboncoopstockport.eventbrite.co.uk Carbon Co-op is a pioneering, community-owned approach to enabling householders to reduce their bills and their carbon footprint. … Read more
As part of the Generating Success programme, Carbon Co-op are running two half day seminars for community based organisations interested in renewables and retrofit. **NB SEMINAR 1 DATE RE-ARRANGED FOR MON 15TH JULY 2013** Seminar 1 – Developing a Community Renewables Projectmidday-5pm, Monday 15th July 2015MadLab, 36-40 Edge Street, Manchester M4 1HN Have you established … Read more
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 have been working with OpenEnergyMonitors to develop tools to help our members take greater control of their homes. We've now set up Ecohome Labs, a project to further develop, test and experiment with these and similar technologies. If you're interested in getting involved in the project, you may want to attend one of the upcoming … Read more