Levenshulme Area Based Scheme: ways of working webinar

In October we hosted a webinar bringing together a panel of key players from the Levenshulme Area Based scheme to explore their experience of the process to date, now that works are on site. This webinar is suitable for anyone with an interest in place-based or area-based approaches to retrofit delivery. This might include: You … Read more

Podcast Power in the City Episode 5: From 9 to 5?

This episode is about the grind, the toil, the sweat, the slog, the graft, the duty – and things like skills and craft, commitment and creativity. Yes, it’s about work! The green kind. It’s about working in the energy transition.

Podcast Power in the City Episode 4: Hitting home

This episode is all about staying warm. By putting a jumper on your home! Yes, it’s about energy efficiency in the home, about retrofit, its benefits for householders and the difficulties (and nifty ideas) that arise when trying to scale that up across different building types and tenures.

Podcast Power in the City Episode 2: Feeling Climate Change

So climate change is something that we obviously all know about, but it also is such a big and wicked problem, it can be hard to grasp and quite difficult to talk about. Join us for episode 2 as we try to understand climate change with our ears, guts and hearts. Featuring spoken word poetry, the concept of climate justice, chilli plants, a cycling imam and strangely a lot of hope.

Carbon Co-op Domestic Retrofit listening event

Attendees in discussion at the listening event

On Monday 19th February 2018, The Mayor’s Green Summit Listening Event on domestic housing retrofit organised by Carbon Co-op, took place at Churchgate House with 27 attendees drawn from householders, supply chain companies and support organisations from around Greater Manchester. About the event The aim was to come up with a set of recommendations on … Read more