Carbon Co-op Photo Competition

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Zetland Living Room

Send in your retrofit photos for a chance to win a deluxe organic food and drink hamper. We want to promote your retrofits and energy saving activities to the world and need your photos to do it!

Talking Windows with Green Building Store

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bay window insulation detail

Aneaka puts member questions about windows to Chris Herring, Director of Green Building Store. Topics covered include: (0:00:30) – Introduction to Green Building Store(0:03:30) – Cost/Benefit of triple glazing(0:11:20) – Triple glazing and acoustics(0:16:48) – Window sizing(0:20:00) – Window opening patterns and energy performance(0:23:48) – Incorporating stain glass(0:24:40) – Replicating existing window profiles(0:26:30) – Pros … Read more

Providers, Protectors and Promoters – the roles of third sector organisations in domestic retrofit policy delivery

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Rear alley in Manchester

This is a guest blog from Rebecca Ince, an academic researcher at the University of Birmingham. She has a long term interest in energy efficiency, retrofit and third sector organisations and she also used to work in the construction industry. Rebecca spoke at our Energy Efficiency in Your Community event held with Community Energy England … Read more

Help us get the word out!

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We’re looking for people to identify locations for us to place posters and publicity about our work, in particular training courses. Carbon Co-op is all about helping people take collective action on climate change – so we’re always looking to get the word out to more people. Are there places in your community that you … Read more