Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT)

The Centre for Alternative Technology offers a variety of short residential courses covering a range of sustainability issues. Courses on renewable energy, environmentally friendly building techniques, and water and sanitation solutions can help you learn more about sustainable ways of living, and allow you to put your ideas into practice.  We also offer introductory classes in ecology, woodland management, organic gardening and wilderness skills, as well as specialist courses aimed at educators and trade professionals.  By providing inspiration, information and skills, short courses at the Centre for Alternative Technology help enable you to live and work in a more sustainable way.

With 40 years of experience equipping people with renewable energy skills from our site in Mid Wales the Centre for Alternative Technology is a unique place to learn professional skills in the renewable energy sector. CAT offers a range of courses on Biomass and heating technologies as well as a range of other courses on renewables, sustainable building and ecology.

Visit courses.cat.org.uk for more information.