What is it like to undertake a whole house retrofit? What things do you need to plan for, should you move out, what do you do when it all goes wrong?! The March Carbon Co-op Social features stories from three householders who have been through a whole house retrofit. Each householder has a different background, a … Read more
Cathy, from the rather excellent YouGen blog asked to to share our top tips on whole house retrofit as gathered from the Community Green Deal project. Read the full blog here: http://www.yougen.co.uk/blog-entry/2526/Ten+top+tips+for+major+energy+saving+home+improvements/ or read the tips below. 1. Set out your priorities from the start An understanding of your priorities will assist in the delivery of the … Read more
Two members, Rob Jones and Dom McCann, were featured in a report by Big Issue in the North on the Community Green Deal retrofit pioneers programme. Authored by Sarah Roe and published in the week commencing 2nd January 2015, the article profiles their experiences of retrofit improvements and the difference these have made to their … Read more
You are invited to attend a community energy conference for the public sector and communities; exploring how we can encourage and capitalise on the fast paced growth of the community energy sector throughout the UK, to harness and expand this growth in the North. The event will take place on the 26th February, 10.00 – … Read more
Re-posted from Platform, the everyday portal for sharing knowledge and intelligence on sustainability across Greater Manchester. (http://ontheplatform.org.uk/article/deep-retrofit-comes-greater-manchester) Deep retrofit comes to Greater Manchester… In Buildings, Energy and Society on 18.12.2014Contributed by Jonathan Atkinson Jonathan Atkinson profiles how Carbon Coop members are benefiting from large-scale home energy improvements through retrofitting measures. As the weather starts to get colder a group of Greater Manchester … Read more
The Guardian came to interview us about our recent Community Green Deal retrofit work and made this video which features Charlie and Jonathan from Carbon Co-op and Retrofit pioneer and member Eddie Sheehy. The Carbon Co-op segment is part of a longer piece on Community Energy groups in the UK. Wtach it here: http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/video/2014/sep/26/community-energy-groups-video