Elgan Roberts has been studying on the Renewable Energy and the Built Environment course part time since 2012. He is half way through writing his thesis, which seems like a…
Last year, Balcombe hit the headlines for all the wrong reasons. Targeted to be first in a new wave of oil and gas drilling, the sleepy West Sussex village found…
Nick Jeffries, Renewable Energy and the Built Environment alumnus, talks about his life since graduating from CAT’s Graduate School of the Environment. You can read Nick’s previous post whilst a…
In May CAT was presented with a solar oven by the Spanish company Alsol. A solar oven cooks by turning light rays from the sun into heat. Reflectors on the solar…
For three weeks CAT’s Strawbale Theatre was transformed into an inventor’s den when we ran Eco Easter Activities. Kids of all ages got involved in designing and building solar-powered…
If you went to the National Homebuilding and Renovating Show a week ago, you might have been inspired by the live demonstrations of thatching, or felt the sudden urge to…
As we write up the research for our third ZCB report on how Britain can decarbonise, it’s interesting to look around at what’s being suggested in other decarbonisation strategies. Germany,…
I didn’t get around to writing a blog for the single Photovoltaic (PV) module that I attended. At this stage of the course it appears that ‘life’ tends to…
Ian Tansley is Chief Technical Officer of True Energy, a 10-year-old renewable energy company based in Tywyn. Ian was one of the founding members of Dulas, where he worked with…
Over the last couple of weeks we’ve been keeping you up to date with the government’s proposed cuts to the feed in tariff. Legal challenges to the government’s decision have…