Lorenza and Paul (Co-op board members) held a 'community champions' meeting for their street inside their living room last evening. The workshop was led by Matt who brought along his box of eco-products, samples, information packs and open source energy monitoring equipment. Four different households on the street attended the meeting. Paul:"The evening began over … Read more
A new report by the Technology Strategy Board, launched at this year's EcoBuild conference, demonstrates household retrofit to reduce carbon emissions by over 80% is acheivable and at affordable prices with Carbon Co-op technical partners URBED leading the way in the sector. The report, Retrofit Revealed, is an evaluation of the Retrofit for the Future programme which saw different organisations and companies work … Read more
Many thanks to everyone who made it down to the Carbon Co-op 2013 AGM which took place on Monday 18th March at MadLab in central Manchester. The event was well attended with around half the membership present along with several non-members and interested parties. Chaired by Phil Korbel, the evening saw an overview of the … Read more
Many thanks to everyone who came along on the Carbon Co-op Eco House bus tour on Saturday 16th March 2013 and of course to all the householders who opened up their homes. In the end the Big Red Bus went to the 'Big Red Bus Depo in the Sky'* so a Bullock's bus transported … Read more
The Carbon Co-op AGM The first Carbon Co-op AGM is taking place: 6.15pm-8.15pm on Monday 18th March 2013at MadLab, 36-40 Edge Street Manchester M4 1HN RSVP here: http://carboncoopagm.eventbrite.com The evening will feature a series of presentations on the work Carbon Co-op has done over the past year and an outline of future plans as well … Read more
Social event for anyone interested in community renewables, Thursday 21st March 2013Fuelling Manchester social, 7pm onwards @ The Black Lion, Salford. Fuelling Manchester is the ninth networking session for community renewables in Greater Manchester. This is purely a social event, there will be no agenda and no structure just an opportunity to meet with like-minded individuals … Read more