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- The Sustainable Home (5 days)
Centre for Alternative Technology, ...
02 November at 11:45 - FIFTH SUSTAINABLE SCIENCE SYMP...
Centre for Alternative Technology
09 October at 09:00 - Power and Place Conference 2 -...
centre for alternative technology
02 October at 09:00 - National Moth Day, moth and ba...
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17 September at 19:00 - Building with Earth (3 days)
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11 September at 11:00 - Building Limes - a burning iss...
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04 September at 11:00 - We're hiring a new media officer
Machynlleth
18 June at 13:00 - Convergence on Zero
Smithsonian's National Museum of Na...
25 June at 22:00 - The Otesha Project
The Centre for Alternative Technology
14 June at 11:00 - Eco Refurbishment (5 days)
Centre for Alternative Technology, ...
25 May at 11:00
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Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Exclusive: International Energy Agency official claims world is much closer to running out of oil than official estimates admit
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
THE airport operator BAA has bowed to opposition to a third runway at Heathrow airport. It will not submit a planning application before the general election and will not sign large contracts to “bounce” a future Conservative government into accepting it.
Centre for Alternative Technology
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/20
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
E.ON, the energy group, has effectively thrown in the towel on its plans to build a new coal-power station at Kingsnorth, blaming the recession
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/20
US threatens to derail climate talks by refusing to include Kyoto targets | Environment | guardian.c
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Protocol seen as basis for Copenhagen negotiations but America refuses to be 'stuck with agreement 20 years old'
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CAT Events 3rd and 4th of October
BIG FEAST on Saturday 3rd -A sustainable food fayre, celebrating the autumn harvest with apple experts, pedal powered smoothies, talks, workshops, activities for kids and lots more.
POWER AND PLACE 2nd/3rd/4th conference looking at good energy practice in the transition from fossil fuel... dependency "The
most recent scientific evidence on both climate security and energy
security reveals a situation more urgent than had been expected.
However, it’s not too late, and solutions do exist."
http://www.cat.org.uk/conferences/Read more
BIG FEAST on Saturday 3rd -A sustainable food fayre, celebrating the autumn harvest with apple experts, pedal powered smoothies, talks, workshops, activities for kids and lots more.
POWER AND PLACE 2nd/3rd/4th conference looking at good energy practice in the transition from fossil fuel... dependency "The
most recent scientific evidence on both climate security and energy
security reveals a situation more urgent than had been expected.
However, it’s not too late, and solutions do exist."
http://www.cat.org.uk/conferences/Read more
Source: www.cat.org.uk
CAT aims to 'inspire, inform, and enable' people to live more sustainably. A solutions driven organisation, offering practical solutions to environmental problems, our key areas of work are renewable energy, environmental building, energy efficiency, organic growing and alternative sewage systems. ....
Source: blog.cat.org.uk
CAT charity has received its biggest donation from an individual in its 35-year history thanks to Margaret and Graham Sheppard. Graham, who was a long time supporter of CAT sadly passed away four years ...
Source: blog.cat.org.uk
Chris Pasby enrolled this week to study an Msc in Architecture: Advanced Renewable Energy Studies at CAT’s renowned graduate school. But unlike other students at CAT, many who come on the train, Chris who lives in the French Alps cycled here to raise money for CAT. ...
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Experts in the field of moths and bats will lead an walk from the CAT car park this Saturday evening at 7pm to explore these fascinating creatures of the night. This is an enchanting opportunity for visitors to see the diversity and beauty of moths, and listen to the fascinating sounds of bats.
"As dusk falls the woodl...and around CAT becomes alive with wildlife, from fantastically moths to glimpses of bats, its infoRead more
"As dusk falls the woodl...and around CAT becomes alive with wildlife, from fantastically moths to glimpses of bats, its infoRead more
Time:Thursday, 17 September 2009 19:00
Location:Centre for Alternative Technology, Machnylleth
Source: blog.cat.org.uk
Over 80 people from a broad spectrum of backgrounds met yesterday at CAT to discuss and debate sustainable land use in a Zero Carbon Britain (ZCB) scenario. The seminar asked key questions that society must address if we are to prevent catastrophic climate change. ...
Centre for Alternative Technology Power and Place Conference 2 - 4 October 2009
good energy practice in the transition from fossil fuel dependency
Location:centre for alternative technology
Time:Friday, 02 October 2009 09:00
Centre for Alternative Technology
The most recent scientific evidence on both climate security and energy security reveals a situation more urgent than had been expected. However, it’s not too late, and solutions do exist.
A great deal of experience on the transition from fossil fuel dependency is available to share, on a range of different scales and f...rom a range of different regions. This conference will explore ‘good practice’ case studies, looking at not just the technologies, but also the human stories, how the projects got off the ground, what the barriers were and how they were overcome, and how people benefited.
This conference is kindly supported by the Carnegie UK Trust and EU DG Environment support to INFORSE - Europe,
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A great deal of experience on the transition from fossil fuel dependency is available to share, on a range of different scales and f...rom a range of different regions. This conference will explore ‘good practice’ case studies, looking at not just the technologies, but also the human stories, how the projects got off the ground, what the barriers were and how they were overcome, and how people benefited.
This conference is kindly supported by the Carnegie UK Trust and EU DG Environment support to INFORSE - Europe,
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good energy practice in the transition from fossil fuel dependency
Time:Friday, 02 October 2009 09:00
Location:centre for alternative technology
Source: blog.cat.org.uk
This week, Jase Kuriakose an engineer at CAT turned on the UK’s first micro grid. The systems works by combining all the wind, solar, bio mass and hydro energy we produce at CAT and storing it in a battery bank. ...
Centre for Alternative Technology It's 150 years today since the first commercial oil well in the US started pumping. Here is a brief history of Oil and some thoughts on the future from the The Oil Drum blog.
Source: www.theoildrum.com
Posted by Gail the Actuary on August 27, 2009 - 10:34amTopic: MiscellaneousTags: oil history, oil supply, original [list all tags]
Centre for Alternative Technology Sad news about our solar powered phone box - reported here in the Guardian
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Giles Gilbert Scott's red telephone kiosk is one of the most beautiful pieces of street furniture ever devised. But what to do with it in the age of the mobile?
