In November 2018, the Carbon Co-op held its first hack lab. Organised in collaboration with UCL anthropologist Hannah Knox and community business practitioner Britt Jurgensen, the hack lab was designed to bring together people with diverse perspectives on a changing energy system to explore how to make the energy system more equitable.
Carbon Coop & CLES reveal new research showing that in 2018 Greater Manchester’s public sector institutions spent over £75 million on their combined gas and electricity bills.
Author Kate De Selincourt reports on the one-day People Powered Retrofit ‘Service Design Lab’, organised by Carbon Co-op and URBED that took place at Bridge 5 Mill in February 2019.
As part of our People Powered Retrofit Project to develop a new market for retrofit in Greater Manchester, we have been looking at the role that the planning system plays and exploring how planning policy could be used.
… is good indoor air quality! In this blog Emilia talks about key reasons to create a plan for ventilation at home.
As energy organisations, academics and companies gathered in Paris to attend the UK-France Smart Energy Bilateral Workshop and discuss all things ‘smart’, Jonathan Atkinson reports on the event and what he took from it.