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A guest post by Sandy Rushton, People Powered Retrofit. Originally featured on Medium. In this post I want to talk about how I’d conceptualised our approach to Behaviour Change at the start of this project, and how this changed once we’d started working with our partners at the service design agency, Snook.  Following some initial research … Read more

Blog: Energise Manchester – Getting to Grips with Behaviour Change

A guest post by Sandy Rushton, People Powered Retrofit. Originally featured on Medium. In the Energise Manchester project, the project partners will work together to develop novel, community-based approaches to energy advice using Snook’s expertise in the area of Behaviour Change and Service Design to guide this process. Behaviour Change methodologies have been used to inform … Read more

BLOG: Using Behaviour Change to inform energy advice

About Energise Manchester A guest post by Sandy Rushton, People Powered Retrofit Running from 2023-March 2025, Carbon Co-op’s ‘Energise Manchester’ project is a Local Energy Advice Demonstrator (LEAD) project. The project aims to apply innovative and proven public health targeting and Behaviour Change design approaches to the delivery of in person, local energy advice. To put … Read more

Communications and Policy Officer (now closed)

Now hiring: Communications and Policy Officer Time: 0.8 – 1 FTE (Flexible) Location: Central Manchester, UK/Remote Wages: £26,800 - £32,160 (dependant on experience/qualifications) Start date: ASAP Duration: permanent Status: Payroll/PAYE

Carbon Co-op is seeking a Communications and Policy Officer to create compelling new stories and narratives concerning the power of collective solutions to tackle climate change, the urgent need to establish Energy Justice and the transformative power of open technologies. You don’t need to be an expert in the field but you will be passionate … Read more

Project Officer (Energy Advice) (now closed)

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We are looking for an enthusiastic project officer with great communication skills to support innovative, collaborative community-based projects, offering targeted energy advice to householders in Manchester. You will be happy translating technical concepts for a non-technical audience, verbally and in writing. You may not have specific experience in energy advice or home refurbishment, but you’re … Read more

NOW HIRING: Project Manager

Are you a creative project manager with great communication skills, would you like to join a growing team building innovative, citizen-led solutions to deliver a just energy transition? Then we want to hear from you! Carbon Co-op is looking for a project manager to work on our exciting energy innovation projects, which develop technical solutions … Read more