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
A new report by the Technology Strategy Board, launched at this year's EcoBuild conference, demonstrates household retrofit to reduce carbon emissions by over 80% is acheivable and at affordable prices with Carbon Co-op technical partners URBED leading the way in the sector. The report, Retrofit Revealed, is an evaluation of the Retrofit for the Future programme which saw different organisations and companies work … Read more
The Carbon Co-op AGM The first Carbon Co-op AGM is taking place: 6.15pm-8.15pm on Monday 18th March 2013at MadLab, 36-40 Edge Street Manchester M4 1HN RSVP here: http://carboncoopagm.eventbrite.com The evening will feature a series of presentations on the work Carbon Co-op has done over the past year and an outline of future plans as well … Read more
Social event for anyone interested in community renewables, Thursday 21st March 2013Fuelling Manchester social, 7pm onwards @ The Black Lion, Salford. Fuelling Manchester is the ninth networking session for community renewables in Greater Manchester. This is purely a social event, there will be no agenda and no structure just an opportunity to meet with like-minded individuals … Read more
Carbon Co-op is are offering £100 vouchers to two households in Greater Manchester in return for taking part in an energy performance study run by Salford University. The catch? These householders are required to act as controls for our Community Green Deal project and you would therefore not anticipate doing any significant energy efficient improvements to … Read more