CAT is on a mission to inspire, inform, and enable sustainable living at every level in society.
One of their recent publications is a new energy strategy for a Zero Carbon Britain by 2030.
As Europe's leading Eco-Centre, "Their visitor centre has 7 acres of interactive displays, organic gardens, a cafe, shop and adventure playground. It opened in 1974 when CAT was only a small community starting to put sustainable living to the test. Now the organisation has grown in size and reach, welcoming 50,000 visitors and school children every year, providing free information to over 200,000 people and offering postgraduate courses to 500 students each year."
CAT make information sheets available on a wide range of topics from renewable energy to low impact living. They have various projects to raise awareness, conduct research, and trial new sustainability solutions, sometimes combining all of these into projects like the WISE project, building the Wales Institute for Sustainable Education; "WISE provides a location in which to explore practical solutions to vital changes to the way we live, work, travel and do business. The WISE building embodies everything that will be taught in it, offering a living example of sustainable technologies and lifestyles."
In addition to the post-graduate courses, they run short courses on subjects as diverse as ecologically sound gardening to how to position and install a wind turbine and attach it to the national grid.
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