Centre for Alternative Technology: mountain view
View from 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.
This view is towards the northwest, with mountains of southern Snowdonia, in Snowdonia National Park (in Welsh, Parc Cenedlaethol Erythri), which has a boundary just across the road (the A487) from the Centre. The higher peak in the background may be part of Cadair Idris(?), one of the highest mountains in the southern part of the Park.
According to the Centre's Website (consulted 1 March 2014), "CAT 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 the types of alternative energy and modes of living that it demonstrates.
[Centre for Alternative Technology funicular mountain Snowdonia 2012 may 6 p; P1000250, zoom]
Centre for Alternative Technology: mountain view
View from 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.
This view is towards the northwest, with mountains of southern Snowdonia, in Snowdonia National Park (in Welsh, Parc Cenedlaethol Erythri), which has a boundary just across the road (the A487) from the Centre. The higher peak in the background may be part of Cadair Idris(?), one of the highest mountains in the southern part of the Park.
According to the Centre's Website (consulted 1 March 2014), "CAT 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 the types of alternative energy and modes of living that it demonstrates.
[Centre for Alternative Technology funicular mountain Snowdonia 2012 may 6 p; P1000250, zoom]