AT Organisations

I was very pleased to come across the Centre for Alternative Technology at the Eco-Build exhibition in the ExCel earlier this month.  It is "an education and visitor centre demonstrating practical solutions for sustainability", and is based in Wales.  Great to see some practical propagation of Appropriate Technologies, and I must visit them some day soon, if not do a course with them.

Another organisation I've come across is the Alternative Technology Centre (ATC), but looking at the website I'm not sure how up to date or alive the ATC is.  There are certainly some good and interesting links which are still valid though.

My favourite is the Alternative Technology Association in Australia, which produces ReNew magazine, covering many different aspects of AT, and Sanctuary magazine, which covers many excellent ideas in building sustainable modern homes.  In Australia of course, things like water harvesting are more important than in more soggy countries such as in the UK, and solar power could prove more viable than cloudy situations.