Billy Aiken, Author at Centre for Alternative Technology

Home energy saving tips

Explore how you can lower your electricity use and reduce your heating needs. Joel Rawson from our Free Information Service gives a quick guide to lower-cost ways of cutting carbon…

Short course spotlight: Zero Carbon Britain: Carbon Literacy for the Housing Sector

Explore climate solutions, create an action plan for you and your work, and gain Carbon Literate certification on our online course.

Pathways to Farming – guest blog

The innovative Pathways to Farming training programme, run by community organisation Mach Maethlon in partnership with CAT, aims to increase the number of people earning a living from locally produced…

Applications open for PhD: Empowering climate action through participatory filmmaking

A new PhD opportunity, in partnership between CAT, Aberystwyth University and Cardiff University, will explore how collaborative filmmaking can nurture new forms of environmental awareness and engagement.

Our foot is still on the accelerator – overview of key outcomes from COP27

COP27 has delivered an important agreement on funding for loss and damage, but fallen woefully short on what’s needed to stop catastrophic climate change. Paul Allen reports.

Helping hands: volunteering at CAT

Throughout CAT’s near-50-year history, volunteers have been at the heart of our work. Dulcie Fairweather celebrates all that we have achieved together and gives us a glimpse into life as…

COP27 jargon buster

From ‘NDCs’ to ‘Loss and Damage’, the language used in the UN climate talks can make it difficult to follow what’s going on. Sarah Briggs is here to help.

To avoid climate catastrophe, COP27 must move from pledges to action

With the next round of UN climate talks about to begin in Egypt, Paul Allen looks at the urgent need for joined-up solutions.

Store and save? Will battery storage cut costs and carbon emissions?

We will need energy storage and smart controls to reduce the use of gas-fired power stations, by allowing electricity from renewable energy to be stored and fed back to the…

Short course spotlight: Fixing your damp house

Experienced conservation builder Nathan Goss looks at how to spot and tackle damp problems in old or traditionally built houses, helping create more comfortable, easier to heat, energy-efficient spaces.

Author: Billy Aiken