Subject: Summer events and new job opportunities 😎

Summer events and new job opportunities 😎

Carbon Co-op and People Powered Retrofit are hiring for a number of different job opportunities. We would love you to take a look and see if you'd be a great fit for our team! We have also had a busy month running events across our projects and attending Bluedot festival, where it was great to see a few of you.

As many people take holidays we still have a number of great events lined up for August, so make sure not to miss out.

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We're hiring!

A photo of a Carbon Co-op employee behind a stall

We have some fantastic job opportunities with Carbon Co-op as well as People Powered Retrofit. Carbon Co-op are hiring a Head of Operations as well as a Project Manager for Retrofit Innovation.

Meanwhile, People Powered Retrofit are hiring a Retrofit Design Coordinator.

Make sure to check out these fantastic opportunities over on our vacancies page.

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'Viable Future Mark' award received

Carbon Co-op are among the first recipients of the 'Viable Future Mark' from Steady State Manchester. The award is being given to organisations whose work is consistent with Steady State Manchester's vision of a Viable Greater Manchester. The group are calling for the submission of further organisations which meet their criteria, and will feature more from the award holders in the near future.

Learn more about the Viable Future Mark

New Open Energy Efficiency Savings project

A screenshot from the PowerShaper Flex introductory webinar

We kicked off our PowerShaper Flex service with an introductory webinar on 13th July exclusively for participants.

PowerShaper Flex is a pioneering project we’re running to create a green, flexible smart energy grid, where participants can enable more of their power to be supplied by renewables, automate their home energy usage and save money on their bills.

Carbon Co-op's Claire Knox explained why we need PowerShaper Flex and how it’s going to work, while PowerShaper Flex participant Ian Madley spoke about his experiences of the service.

Watch the session above and sign up for more updates on the pilot below.

Bluedot Festival

Between 22 - 24 July we were at Bluedot Festival at Jodrell Bank. Carbon Co-op and People Powered Retrofit shared a stall at the festival where Jonathan Atkinson also presented. It was great to meet many of you who came by to see us, and we were able to put forward our work with PowerShaper Flex to a broad audience of interested people.

Find out more about our time at Bluedot

Futurebuild Webinar: the hot topic - overheating

People Powered Retrofit's Sandy Rushton is joining an exciting panel for a Futurebuild Digital webinar on Thursday 4th August, at 12pm.

The unprecedented temperatures experienced in the UK are a clear reminder of significant changes underway in the global climate. They also exposed weaknesses in our urban environments and exacerbated existing issues with the overheating of existing buildings including millions of our homes. Turning to technology such as air conditioning is not a solution as it may apparently solve one problem but, of course, sets up another with even more carbon emissions and even greater increases in temperature. Our only option to mitigate overheating is to change what we have to make more habitable environments. Carefully considered retrofitting of existing dwellings will reduce energy use, improve ventilation, improve building fabric performance and consider orientation and improvements to shading.