Billy Aiken, Author at Centre for Alternative Technology

Fledgling farmers

An update on the Pathways to Farming pilot project by Katie Hastings We have reached the end of our first year training new commercial food producers to grow and sell…

This is an emergency — let’s act like it.

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…

A Green New Deal for Homes

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.

Time for a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty

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…

Climate jobs

As we transition away from an economy based on fossil fuels towards zero carbon there is the potential for the creation of hundreds of thousands of new green jobs. Anne…

Climate Strike!

This September, people across the world will join a global week of climate action in support of the school strikers. Clean Slate Editor Catriona Toms urges you to get involved.

Jeremy Corbyn visits CAT to talk zero carbon solutions

Jeremy Corbyn MP visited CAT last week, along with Christina Rees MP, Eluned Morgan AM and Joyce Watson AM, to discuss practical, proven solutions to the climate emergency. During the visit…

Last week, we officially launched our new exhibition ‘Living Wales’ to a packed visitor centre full of family holidaymakers. Using a combination of cutting edge satellite observation, computer analysis and…

From Felixstowe to Fishguard: CAT supporter’s sponsored walk across Britain

This summer, CAT supporter Richard Smith is walking across Britain to explore a cross-section of the country and raise funds for environmental charities, including CAT. Covering a distance of 270…

No Planet B

A wide-ranging new work by Mike Berners-Lee looks at some of the urgent questions facing humanity. There is No Planet B: A Handbook for the Make or Break Years covers…

Author: Billy Aiken