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 give us an extra boost in our ambition to win part of the EnergyShare prize and deliver more community renewables and retro-fit work in Greater Manchester - thanks for all those who have supported us, it’s not too late to give us your vote!
Carbon Coop’s EnergyShare application
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 City’s roofs. The Carbon Co-op is hoping to secure support and funding (up to £100,000) through the programme. The selection process involves people registering support for their favourite projects and we are urging everyone we know to support this application.
It takes just a few minutes and you will be enabling one of Manchester’s most exciting energy initiatives to get started. Supporting our application involves a few simple steps:
2) Click on the red button: Support this Group in the top right hand corner of the Carbon Co-op graphic.
3) A white box appears, click on the blue Sign Up button and register – it takes 30 seconds to generate a password and add your email address, postcode etc.
4) You are then sent an email with a link back to the Energyshare website. Click this & it will confirm that ‘your energyshare profile has been activated, and you’re now a supporter of Manchester Carbon Co-op’.
5) You are then also free to access the great information, resources and online tools available to help you cut your own energy use.
Manchester’s Carbon Co-op has been developed with partners including URBED Co-op, Kindling Trust and lowwintersun. It is a way for people to collaborate together in a bulk purchasing co-operative in order to purchase low carbon technologies. If you like what we do and what we are planning for the year ahead, please show you support. Thank you! The Carbon Co-op team
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lowwintersun is the consultancy of Jonathan Atkinson. Established in 2007, we specialise in developing innovative, creative, co-operative and environmental projects, delivering Third Sector marketing services and carrying out community-based research work.
Collaborative projects include Carbon Co-op, Urban Research Collective, Single Cell Collective, OpenSpace and Assemble.
Jonathan is a board member of Together Works, the social enterprise network for Greater Manchester.
Clients include New Economics Foundation, Department for Energy and Climate Change, NESTA, Co-operatives North West, URBED Co-op, and OXFAM.
Jonathan also performs music under the name Invertor and as part of Single Cell music collective.
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.
