Adaptation: from coping to transformation
Wildfires, drought, hurricanes, flooding – the impacts of our emissions are impossible to ignore. Tanya Hawkes looks at how plans can be made for an uncertain future.
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Category: Graduate School
Global perspective: who is already adapting?
Across the world, many areas are already developing the tools to adapt to climate change, some with informal settlement change and some with more formal strategies. CAT MSc student Tanya…
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Sampling a Masters course at CAT: three perspectives
A Zero Carbon Future is possible, but we need people with the skills and knowledge to make change happen. The nine postgraduate courses delivered by CAT’s Graduate School of the…
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Meet CAT graduates
CAT now has over 1,800 graduates – people who have immersed themselves in studying sustainable solutions for 18 months or more, gaining the skills, knowledge, networks and qualifications to make…
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Sir John Houghton Bursary
The Graduate School of the Environment at CAT are once again able to offer the Sir John Houghton Bursary to a promising student who demonstrates that they have an excellent…
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Rethinking household energy provision: new courses at CAT teach how to install renewables in the home
The Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) has announced a new suite of short courses to enable people to reduce their carbon emissions by installing renewable technologies. Starting in April, students…
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CAT Graduation 2019
On the 16th of November CAT welcomed back over forty students from our Graduate School, and their friends and families, to celebrate their graduation. The award ceremony saw graduates pick…
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UK commits to net zero by 2050 – CAT response
Responding to the announcement of the UK’s commitment to reaching net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) is calling for the creation of a…
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Eye in the Sky
An innovative new project combining state-of-the-art monitoring methods with citizen science will provide a picture of the changing landscape of ‘Living Wales’, helping improve environmental decision making. Brook Woodman reports.
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Natural Urbanism
In the second in our series on sustainable cities, Paul Chatterton looks at how designers are connecting to and learning from the natural world, helping transform the relationship between urban dwellers…
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