A fantastic day had today with the yr 3 Green Design students over at the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) in Mid Wales.
The students are working on a 'live' design (creative concepts) brief for Worcester County Council which aims to help inform and change behaviours of both local schools, schoolchildren and ultimately their parents in respect of energy and resource-saving.
Paul Allen (Knowledge and Outreach Co-ordinator for Zero Carbon Britain) gave students an on site talk through their Zero Carbon Britain Research which aims to help decarbonise the UK economy. In doing so he talked at some length about energy use and ways to help conserve resources: powering down on fossil fuels and powering up the use of renewables and new agricultural techniques.
In addition to Paul's talk, education expert Sarah Tack (Education Manager at CAT) also talked about her work with schools in which she sought to help explain some of the key principles advocated by CAT regards energy use and sustainable living.
Comments scribbled down from students on the minibus home today about things they found interesting included:
- 'Insightful talk by Paul (Allen) and really interesting to see how different materials are being used to be sustainable'.
- 'Engaging talk, the building structure is very cool'.
- 'I really enjoyed the architecture of the place and materials used'..
- '(I found interesting) the escalator thingy powered by flowing water'..
- 'Finding out the different ways to heat and cool buildings'.
- 'Great to look into how a sustainable world could look' .
- 'The amount of research they're doing'.
- 'How they're engaging multiple demographics to make sustainable change'.
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