Build a Tiny House (Sold out on this date)
23rd September 2019 Short Course Gain the practical experience and key skills to build a tiny house all of your own Whether you’re planning to build your own home or just want to pick up…
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Centre for Alternative Technology
Radical action is needed if we are to avoid dangerous climate breakdown. CAT offers practical solutions and hands-on learning to help create a zero carbon world.
Climate Strike
In support of the strikes, CAT will hold a solidarity protest on site at 1pm on 20th September.
We need a UK-wide Climate Emergency Action Plan!
Paul Allen has called for a UK-wide Climate Emergency Action Plan! Please sign his petition and share widely.
New courses at CAT Graduate School for 2019
MSc Green Building*, MSc Sustainable Ecology* & MSc Sustainability and Behaviour Change*
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Plant Diversity
4th October 2019 Short Course What’s the difference between grass, ferns and mosses? They are plants and have green leaves. Yes, but we need to know a great deal more about the diversity of plants…
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Compost Toilets (Sold out)
5th October 2019 Short Course A Beginner’s Guide to the Compost Toilet – Understanding the biology behind humanure. Get a foundational understanding of the principles, benefits and limitations of compost toilets. This is not a…
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Gain the knowledge and skills to help address environmental change. CAT’s postgraduate courses are respected across the world, providing a big-picture, integrated approach to sustainability.
Zero Carbon Britain
To tackle climate change, all emissions that can go to zero must go to zero – as rapidly as possible. CAT’s Zero Carbon Britain research shows how this can be done using technology available today.
Educational Trips
Bring your school, college or educational group to CAT and start exploring positive solutions to environmental challenges.
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Short Courses
Gain practical skills and hands-on experience with one of our day, weekend or week-long sustainability courses.
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Latest from the CAT Blog
This is an emergency — let’s act like it.
17th September 2019 Public awareness and the desire to create change is building. Later this week people from across the world will join a global week of climate action in support of the…
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A Green New Deal for Homes
17th September 2019 As the campaign for a Green New Deal gathers pace in both Britain and the US, Jonathan Atkinson looks at how it could help transform UK housing.
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Time for a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty
16th September 2019 Half a century ago, faced with the threat of nuclear catastrophe, the world came together and agreed the nonproliferation treaty. Andrew Simms and Peter Newell argue that we now need…
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Free Information Service
Wondering what you can do in your own home to help combat climate change? CAT’s free information service offers independent and impartial advice on a wide range of areas to help you live more sustainably.
Solar Photovoltaic (PV)
Generate electricity from the sun. Photovoltaic (PV) solar panels convert sunlight into electricity. You can use the electricity to power domestic appliances, and export excess energy to the grid. This…
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Natural and low impact building materials
Our page on low energy buildings talks about the ’embodied energy’ of building materials. This is the energy that was used in extraction, manufacture, and transportation. Another way of assessing…
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Energy saving at home
From the very earliest days of CAT we have focused on building and renovating to high levels of insulation, so that we consume less energy. Reducing our energy demand makes…
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