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We offer solutions to some of the most serious challenges facing our planet and the human race, such as climate change, pollution and the waste of precious resources.

We demonstrate practical ways of addressing these problems. Leading by example, we aim to show that living more sustainably is not only easy to attain but can provide a better quality of life.

Averting a massive environmental disaster is not out of our reach, although if we continue to treat the early signs with apathy, it soon will be

Website:: http://www.cat.org.uk/

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Podcast: Peter Harper on energy and nuclear power

Fri 18th May, 2012

Peter Harper delivers a lecture on energy and nuclear power. The second part of this lecture is available here. Previous podcasts

Where’s the impact of pads and tampons?

Wed 16th May, 2012

In this series, we’ve been investigating the impacts of various different consumer products, attempting to untangle the complicated webs of production, manufacture and resource use. We’ve told the story of a chocolate Easter egg, a cotton t-shirt, and a paperback book, discovering along the way some fascinating facts about how these products affect our increasingly fragile planet. This week, we’re going to investigate menstrual products. Unfortunately, however you term them – sanitary produc..

Nature Blog: Yellowhammer onomatopoeia

Mon 14th May, 2012

Rennie, CAT’s resident naturalist, enjoys the abundance of birdsong at CAT. Well, this is the last Monday morning that I’ll be trudging up the garden steps, mentally preparing myself for another day at the coal face and it’s a lovely bright sunny day – for the moment at least. Yet again I am struck by the proliferation of bird life we have here – especially noticeable at this time of year when the dawn chorus is in full swing. In just the short walk from the Cabins to the staff lunch room I s..