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Sustainability into practice
At the upcoming CAT Conference, October 5-7 2018, Peter Harper will be giving a keynote talk on the urgency of changes needed to meet environmental challenges, and how recent technical developments could help us succeed.
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Rosemary Randall will be running a workshop at this year’s CAT conference from the 5th to the 7th of October on how to make our conversations about climate change more fruitful and less conflictual. Here she explains some of the ideas behind her approach.
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In support of the Climate Coalition’s UK-wide ‘Speak Up Week’ from 30th June to 8th July, CAT will be helping the fight to tackle climate change by inviting the public to discover what a Zero Carbon Britain looks like and how it can be achieved.
CAT Architecture student projects on display at end of year show
Dreaming of a Zero Carbon Christmas? Paul Allen has been exploring the possibilities with a group of visionaries at London’s Young Vic Theatre.
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In celebration of the Tree Charter’s ‘National Tree Week’, we caught up with Conservation Development Assistant Alex Chadwick to see how you can get involved!
How best can we restore and protect lost habitats to help create a place where nature can thrive? Ross Mackenzie joined a recent rewilding course at CAT to find out.
Paul Allen reports from his travels around Ireland as part of the innovative Convergence Festival.
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With fossil fuels still providing most of the UK’s electricity mix, should we all be aiming to go off-grid? CAT Information Officer Mim Davies explores the issues.
If you’re thinking of renovating your home and would like to find out how to do it in an environmentally sensitive way, you’ll be please to hear that we’ve just added another Eco Refurbishment short course to our calendar.
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