Subject: Tackle your home's carbon emissions in 2022! 🌱

Welcome to 2022! 🥂

We are now well and truly into 2022. This is already looking like an exciting year with plenty of events, trainings and work taking place. One of the biggest changes for Carbon Co-op is the creation of People Powered Retrofit as a separate organisation, after our successful share issue. This is already underway, and marks the beginning of a new era for our retrofit services.

With this separation Carbon Co-op will continue to lead groundbreaking innovation projects looking at home energy systems, and building a community of co-operators working to address climate change by tackling domestic carbon emissions. All the while continuing to work with People Powered Retrofit as the service enters this new phase.

Local Authority Approach to Person Centred Retrofit for Fuel Poverty

With increased national funds for retrofit over 2021, grant funding for energy-efficient retrofit is at the highest level for over a decade. Moreover, the security of future investment in this sector looks more certain than ever, as does a local authority-led delivery model.

However, while more retrofit is being delivered, these schemes disproportionately fail to address the most vulnerable homes.

Learn more

February retrofit webinars with CAfS

Retrofit Journey for Householders

If you’re thinking of retrofitting your home, but want to know more about the whole process, this webinar is for you. In this 90-minute session, we will help you to navigate the complex world of retrofit, get a better sense of what your own retrofit journey could look like, and avoid common pitfalls and misconceptions. Carbon Co-op's Jonathan Atkinson joins Tina Holt from Cumbria Action for Sustainability for this exciting webinar.

Eco-Retrofit for Householders. Unit 1: Understanding Retrofit

Featuring Carbon Co-op's Marion Lloyd-Jones and Tina Holt from CAfS

The first of four units in the series "Eco-Retrofit for Householders" is all about the basic principles of retrofit.

Whether you are thinking about insulating your home, installing a low carbon heating system, or just wondering how to make your home more comfortable or cheaper to heat, this is the introduction you need.

Foundations of Eco-Retrofit at Harrogate College

A photo of an electrical installer running tests

Get ahead of the curve and be a part of the green recovery with this course for members of the construction industry in the Harrogate area.

Run by People Powered Retrofit, this course gives you a starting point for getting into retrofit, the future of the building industry. Large companies have to date taken the lion’s share of energy efficiency work in large social housing projects, but the majority of the UK’s homes are owned privately and will need extensive eco-renovation works done as a part of general improvements and extensions in the coming years. Those homes need your expertise!

Now booking for Saturday 12 March 2022, 10am-4pm and Saturday 19 March 2022, 10am-4pm

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Carbon Co-op in the news...

Inside view: Retrofits and award for Carbon Co-op

Jonathan Atkinson, co-founder of Carbon Co-op, talks to Simon Birch about winning an award at COP26 and why retrofitting energy efficiency improvements in homes is so important.

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What we are reading

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‘Person-Centred Retrofit: A fuel poverty, vulnerability led approach’ report launch

Carbon Co-op has worked with Plymouth City Council and Nottingham City Council through the mPower activate programme to investigate innovative solutions to ensure those most vulnerable to fuel poverty can access retrofit.

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Social Media Insight

"Absolutely baffles me that we have a heat technology that pumps heat OUT of homes.*

Heat pump coming next month to heat my home the way the 21st century intended. Thanks @CarbonCoop

for loaning me the camera

*albeit much cooler due to me having flow temperature down to 45C"

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In the community

Kitchen Extractor Letting in Cold Air

One community member has discovered that their extractor fan is letting in cold air to their kitchen. What is the solution to this problem? Learn more and share your ideas on the forum.

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