{"id":21720,"key":"Centre_for_Alternative_Technology","title":"Centre for Alternative Technology","latest":{"id":1265805,"timestamp":"2026-09-09T13:27:50Z"},"content_model":"wikitext","license":{"url":"https://www.appropedia.org/Appropedia:Copyrights","title":"CC-BY-SA-4.0"},"source":"{{Organization data\n| website = http://www.cat.org.uk\n| active = yes\n| location = Machynlleth, Powys, Wales\n| coordinates = 52° 35' 42.65\" N, 3° 51' 17.33\" W\n}}\n\n{{Wikipedia excerpt}}\n\n== Activities ==\n\n(From their [http://web.archive.org/web/20101223174450/http://www.cat.org.uk/information/aboutcatx.tmpl?init=1 website]\n\n<blockquote>\nWhat do we do?\n\nWe offer solutions to some of the most serious challenges facing our planet and the human race, such as climate change, pollution and the waste of precious resources.\n\nWe demonstrate practical ways of addressing these problems. Leading by example, we aim to show that living more sustainably is not only easy to attain but can provide a better quality of life.\n\nAverting a massive environmental disaster is not out of our reach, although if we continue to treat the early signs with apathy, it soon will be.\n\nWe address every aspect of the average lifestyle - the key areas we work in are [[renewable energy]], environmental building, energy efficiency, organic growing and alternative sewage systems.\n\nWe promote our ideas in a variety of ways:\n\nOur Visitor Centre is open seven days a week. Interactive displays show global issues such as energy generation and transport, and practical, everyday solutions for everyone.\n\nCAT also runs a free information service, answering enquiries on a massive range of topics by phone, letter or email, five days a week. For bigger projects, there is also a consultancy service.\n\nCAT is a great place to learn new things, for all ages. We run a range of residential courses - from weekends to a yearlong MSc. Our dedicated Education Department arranges school trips to CAT, which can be tied in with the National Curriculum.\n\nWe publish books on various 'green' topics, and sell eco-books and products through a shop and mail order service.</blockquote>\n\n== Visitor Centre ==\n\nThe Centre for Alternative Technology is based in an old slate quarry in central [[Wales]]. Here they have a visitor centre with working examples of many different technologies plus an excellent bookshop and restaurant. Well worth a visit if you are anywhere in the area.\n\n== Residential Courses ==\n\nThe centre offers residential courses form a weekend to a year long MSc.\n\n== Publications ==\n\nCAT publications are available for download [https://store.cat.org.uk/index.php?cPath=104_253 from their website]. These are not free. All have to be paid for and CAT owns the copyright in all of the publications and (as far as I can see) does not permit these publications to be copied or posted elsewhere.<br>\n\nThey do have some [http://web.archive.org/web/20101224182526/http://www.cat.org.uk/information/info_content.tmpl free information sheets] and a [http://forum.cat.org.uk/index.php discussion forum].<br>\n\n== External links ==\n\n* [[Wikipedia:Centre for Alternative Technology]]\n* [http://www.cat.org.uk/ Official site]\n\n{{Copyedit notice|\n* Paraphrase the big chunk of text from their website.\n* Referring to the Wikipedia article, their homepage and other sources, describe some specific projects.\n* Are there specific achievements to mention?}}\n\n{{Page data\n| license = CC-BY-SA-3.0\n| keywords = eco-centre, education, sustainability\n| description = CD3WD is a large archive of sustainable knowledge. Appropedia shares how it helps people solve local challenges with open data.\n}}\n\n[[Category:Appropriate technology organizations]]\n[[Category:Wales]]"}