In November 2016 Carbon Co-op contracted Dan Chaplin to run a three day DIY Retrofit for Homeowners course. Running the course was a first for us, and a part of our effort to provide more support to those working on low cost DIY retrofits. The course covered 6 key areas:1. Key principles2. Airtightness and draughtproofing3. … Read more
Below is Carbon Co-op's response to Manchester Climate Change Agency's Manchester Climate Change Strategy 2016-50, the full call can be found here: http://www.manchesterclimate.com/2050consultation October 2016 1. About Carbon Co-op Carbon Co-op is a not-for-profit community energy organisation based in Manchester. Operating since 2007, we enable householders to makelarge-scale reductions in their energy usage. We have … Read more
On the 8th of December, 5:30pm, at Madlab, 36-40 Edge Street, Manchester, M4 1HN. Join us at meetup For this session we are planning: More with the energy monitors we are building, strat building one, come and finish it if you haven't or if it is not working we'll try to fix it with you. Will we be able … Read more
It felt a bit quieter this time but still interesting with some hands on work and presentations about emonCMS dashboards, how energuy monitoring changed my :p and MyHomeEnergyPlanner, the tool for house assessments we are developing in CarbonCoop. The electronics of the day Duncan and Shahzad had finished building their monitors in previous sessions. But … Read more
Britain may laugh (or squirm) at the amount of dirt and dishonesty the US Presidential election is sinking of into. It is hard not to. But Britain has as much dirt and sleaze of its own to worry about. This has nothing to do with the private lives (or lusts) of MPs, but about our … Read more
Another busy busy busy EcoHomeLab. Many things happened this time: not only we had to carry on working on the HomeEnergyMonitors that some people started building in September's session, there was also some troubleshooting needed, a video recording and a presentation about modeling generation, storage and demand respond. Energy monitors So Shahzad carried on building … Read more