The Big Red Bus Tour of Green Houses is an opportunity to visit homes that have made radical reductions in energy bills and carbon emissions. Everything from solar PV panels and biomass boilers to external wall insulation and triple glazed windows. On the tour you'll visit three householders around Greater Manchester who retrofitted their houses as well … Read more
As part of the Generating Success programme, Carbon Co-op are running two half day seminars for community based organisations interested in renewables and retrofit. **NB SEMINAR 1 DATE RE-ARRANGED FOR MON 15TH JULY 2013** Seminar 1 – Developing a Community Renewables Projectmidday-5pm, Monday 15th July 2015MadLab, 36-40 Edge Street, Manchester M4 1HN Have you established … Read more
Can our homes be made energy efficient, if so how would that work? We need to cut the average amount of energy our homes use by 80% to deal with climate change and rising fuel bills.Carbon Coop have been having a look at the options and want to know what you think would work, what wouldn’t … Read more
The sixth Fuelling Manchester social takes place on Thursday 26th January at the Bulls Head pub nr Piccadilly Station. The gathering is for all those of us involved in community renewable projects, be that: water turbine co-operatives; bio-mass and woodland management enterprises; waste-to-energy projects, solar energy collectives or those involved in community-focused. We will be meeting at the Bulls … 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
On Saturday 18th September 2011, Carbon Co-op spoke at a conference in Manchester on Co-operative Councils.Organised by Kevin Peel and held at the People’s History Museum in Manchester. The day looked at how local authorities can use co-operative and mutual models, values and principles to deliver better services and put people in control. Over 80 Councillors from more than 30 local authorities attended, with … Read more