Community Energy is a term used to cover a wide range of projects: from a group of individual installations to community wide networks which generate heat or power. It can also mean installations at community centres and facilities.
Have a look at our new guide on how to set up a community energy project where you are!
Although the ATC obviously does not condone vandalism of any sort, this is both ingenious and has a beautiful outcome!
A Green Transport network is being developed throughout the Upper Calder Valley by the Alternative Technology Centre (ATC) together with Cycle:Recycle, the Car ShareScheme, Hour Car and the Sustainable Transport Group.
Our vision is that there will be both green low emission cars and electric bikes available throughout the area that will link with each other and with the public transport network. Continue reading
The city’s £900,000 drilling project has finally reached hot water during the early hours of the 27th June. Despite encountering problems drilling through the Whin Sill, a band of solidified lava dating back 280 million years, the quest to tap into the practically inexhaustible resource of geothermally heated water at around 2000 metres deep has proved successful. Continue reading
My Last Car is a very interesting project by a collaboration between 509 Arts, Warwick Arts Centre, Pioneer Projects in Bentham North Yorkshire and the Ryedale Folk Museum, also in North Yorkshire. Their aim is to examine the relationship people have with their cars by collecting stories of personal experiences, whilst questioning the car’s role in the 21st Century by braking a car down into component parts and transforming them into gallery pieces.
For more info, have a look on their website HERE. We recommend doing their survey, its good fun!
P.S. We also particularly enjoyed this video they posted on their blog recently…
We are very pleased to announce that Cycle:Recycle, the bike recycling project and shop here at The ATC, has been shortlisted for the 2011 Halifax Evening Courier Community and Environment Awards in the category of Business Recycling Initiative. The awards ceremony will take place on the 7th of July so fingers crossed!
