An immersive game, designed and delivered by Energy Democracy Greater Manchester and Carbon Co-op as part of the Manchester Science Festival. Where: Manchester Museum When: 28 – 29th October Tickets available now on Manchester Science Festival's website. Agents! We need your help. My name is Commander Rex Mattravers, I’m Chief of City Operations, … Read more
This year Carbon Carbon has been invited to set two challenges to Manchester Science Festival’s annual HackManchester competition, starting on Monday 23rd October. The event will see groups of adults take on a series of beat the clock coding challenges as set by partner organisations. You can read more about the competition on Hack100 website. For … Read more
Matt reports back from the EcoHome Lab field trip. We first met Mike Wilson in 2016 at an EcoHome Lab meetup session 'From Monitoring to Control' exploring the recent integration of the building blocks of home automation (MQTT, NodeRED and OpenHAB) into the EmonPi, the central base-station for the OpenEnergyMonitor system (view session presentation). In … Read more
Our ‘Powering Down Together’, is published to coincide with Community Energy Fortnight 2017. It reports on the retrofit of 12 owner-occupied solid-walled homes typical of Manchester’s housing stock. Read the summary report here (http://bit.ly/2hFULYf) and the full version here.(http://bit.ly/2vIZsGe) Here are 15 things that we have learnt from the project: 1.You can halve your home’s … Read more
Our recent Info Night was held in The Briton’s Protection on July 20 and we discussed the positive and negative aspects of the smart meter rollout which is currently under way. Our two speakers were Scott Alison, Smart Meters Implementation Manager at Electricity North West and Ben Aylott, Energy System Analyst at Carbon Coop. Many … Read more
Carbon Coop joined trade unionists, renewable energy practitioners and divestment campaigners for a day of protest action outside the gates of Cuadrilla’s flagship fracking site at Preston New Road, Lancashire on July 14, 2017. Against the wishes of local communities, the government’s push for a ’new dash for gas’ has progressed and new fracking sites … Read more