A new ‘country’ had its flag unveiled at a ceremony in Piccadilly Gardens on Wednesday 23rd November. The President of 'The People’s Republic of Energy' – a radical new energy campaign – spoke to his citizens from a recycled soap-box, before his officials unfurled the brand new nation’s flag to the people of Manchester. Their … Read more
The People’s Republic of Energy is Carbon Co-op’s entry into energyshare, a competition to win £100,000. You can vote for us here: http://www.energyshare.com/voting/Closing date is 5pm, Saturday 3rd December 2011 **About the project**The energy crisis is real and upon us. Faced with rising bills, growing energy insecurity and the requirement to tackle climate change it is time … Read more
Carbon Co-op’s bid for the £100,000 EnergyShare competition is entitled ‘People’s Republic of Energy’, a campaign to democratise, popularise and roll out community-driven, low carbon development in Greater Manchester. If successful, the project would see a series of People’s Assemblies, community assessments and retrofit pilots. This work would feed into our wider project to develop a community-driven green … Read more
Carbon Co-op have been fortunate enough to have been invited to the EnergyShare day at River Cottage. on 18th May 2011. The day will be packed full of workshops and seminars from other community renewables projects, it’ll also be a great opportunity to see Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall’s local food project up close. The day will … Read more
Please support the Carbon Coop’s application to EnergyShare – it just takes a few minutes! We are very excited to announce the Carbon Coop’s submission to the innovative Energyshare programme and I am writing to ask for your support, by voting for our bid, to help us start putting co-operatively owned solar panels on our … Read more
On 18th May 2011, I attended the EnergyShare launch at River Cottage HQ near Axminster, Devon on behalf of Carbon Co-op. The day saw community renewables projects come together from all over the UK to share experiences, learn lessons and find out more about the EnergyShare project. The programme featured presentations from Anne Harding of … Read more