Greening up Britain with CAT
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The Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) is a charity dedicated to helping people go greener. It’s an amazing place where our green Britain mission comes to life.
They told us a little bit more about the Centre and what they do.
CAT’s aim is to inspire, inform and enable people to be more sustainable in every area of their lives. These include renewable energy, environmental building, eco-sanitation, woodland management, energy efficiency and organic growing.
Based in the UNESCO Dyfi Biosphere in mid-Wales, CAT’s 24 acre site is a unique and valuable practical demonstration centre with a wide variety of installed renewable energy systems.
The site welcomes visitors all year round as one of mid-wales premium tourist attractions and acts as a venue for a varied short course programme and CAT’s Graduate School of the Environment.
CAT’s courses provide excellent learning opportunities to a wide audience in a large variety of topics surrounding sustainability. Practical courses offering vocational training in sustainable building and renewable energy are extremely popular, as are courses relating to sustainable living, providing skills for land management, teaching sustainable crafts and offering personal growth through nature connection.
The Graduate School of the Environment offers a range of postgraduate courses covering environmental issues and solutions - from sustainable building and renewable energy, to food and natural resources. CAT has over 1,500 graduates and has just welcomed over a hundred new students starting this September from a wide variety of backgrounds and sectors.
CAT’s latest research report, launched on 12 September, is the largest existing survey of the delivery potential from rising renewable energy supplies, which shows clean energy can meet our electricity needs at all times of the day, and all year round. Launched in the run-up to the COP24 climate summit, Raising Ambition: Zero Carbon Scenarios from Across the Globe maps over 130 scenarios designed to meet the targets of the Paris Climate Agreement at global, regional, national and sub-national scales. It offers 18 in-depth case studies, showing cutting-edge modelling work from Tanzania to Los Angeles, and South Asia to the Baltic. Check out the full report here.
CAT has partnered up with Ecotricity to encourage more people to switch to 100% renewable energy. Sign up to Ecotricity and CAT will receive a donation of up to £60 to help with their development and important charitable aims.
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