Centre for Alternative Technology: daffodils & funicular
The base of the funicular leading up to the main level of the Centre for Alternative Technology (in the southern part of Meirionydd, Gwynedd, northwestern Wales, near Machynlleth, which is in Powys, Mid Wales), on a mostly sunny morning in early May.
On the table, a publication appropriate to the centre's theme and a container filled with daffodils appropriate to its Welsh location.
According to its website (consulted 1 March 2014), "CAT -- whose Welsh name is Canolfan y Dechnoleg Amgen -- is an education and visitor centre demonstrating practical solutions for sustainability. We cover all aspects of green living: environmental building, eco-sanitation, woodland management, renewable energy, energy efficiency and organic growing." It was founded on the site of a former slate quarry in 1973 and has since expanded considerably from its original size and scope. (My husband and I first visited it in 1989, then saw the extent of its growth when we returned in 2012.) The water-powered funicular is just one example of its reliance on the types of alternative energy and modes of living that it demonstrates.
[Centre for Alternative Technology base daffodils funicular 2012 may 6 p; P1000319]
Centre for Alternative Technology: daffodils & funicular
The base of the funicular leading up to the main level of the Centre for Alternative Technology (in the southern part of Meirionydd, Gwynedd, northwestern Wales, near Machynlleth, which is in Powys, Mid Wales), on a mostly sunny morning in early May.
On the table, a publication appropriate to the centre's theme and a container filled with daffodils appropriate to its Welsh location.
According to its website (consulted 1 March 2014), "CAT -- whose Welsh name is Canolfan y Dechnoleg Amgen -- is an education and visitor centre demonstrating practical solutions for sustainability. We cover all aspects of green living: environmental building, eco-sanitation, woodland management, renewable energy, energy efficiency and organic growing." It was founded on the site of a former slate quarry in 1973 and has since expanded considerably from its original size and scope. (My husband and I first visited it in 1989, then saw the extent of its growth when we returned in 2012.) The water-powered funicular is just one example of its reliance on the types of alternative energy and modes of living that it demonstrates.
[Centre for Alternative Technology base daffodils funicular 2012 may 6 p; P1000319]