Celtic Sustainables for Sustainable Paint, Insulation and Advice

Celtic Sustainables and Ymlaen Ceredigion put together a week of displays and exhibits, talks, workshops and other activities to explore sustainable technologies for the next 900 years.

The event was held at Cardigan’s Cornmarket gallery throughout the week with displays in the gallery and a programme of activities in the community rooms.

All events are free and everyone's welcome.

Programme

The exciting programme of events took place in the Guild Hall. There was a board with exact times and rooms of the talks and workshops which took place in the gallery throughout the week:

Tues

7th

Sept

Wind Power 10-3.30 - Workshops and presentations on developing community wind energy installations.
In the morning - Presentations from Dan McCallum of Awel Aman Tawe Community Energy , Peter Newland from Albro Planning & Environmental, information about funding for projects from Ynni’r Fro, an outline of the whole process of developing a project from John Fairlie, and expert advice from Bill Richmond of Farm Wind about landowners developing wind projects and qualifying for the Feed-in Tariff.
In the afternoon there will be opportunities for groups to work on projects with expert advice on hand.

Natural Paint, 4pm- Talks and workshop on using Natural Paints from John Dison of Earthborn and Matt Grudgings of Nature Paint.

Weds

8th

Sept

Jane Davidson, 9:30-10 - Keynote speech from the minister for Environment, Sustainability and Housing

Eco Tour, 10-4 - On the Green Dragon bus to visit local buildings - includes straw bale house and mill in St Dogmaels.

Insulating Naturally, 12-2 - Presentations on insulation and air-tightness from Black Mountain and Warmcel.

Thurs

9th

Sept

Sustainable IT , 2pm Linux Computer Operating System and Open Source Software - Talk and workshop by Iestyn Smith and opportunity to try different systems/programmes.

Fri

10th

Sept

Solar PV, 1-5 - How to install a solar photovoltaic panel, suitable for 12 volt battery off-grid systems – hands on practical workshop with Bob Robarts of Sustainergy.

Displays

In the gallery there were displays throughout the week from a range of local organisations. Click on their names to visit their websites.

Sustainergy
Small scale renewable energy systems

Coed Cymru, Ty Unnos
Award winning house design from Welsh wood.

Beacon Stoves, 4wood llp
Progress in wood heating.

Quiet Earth Trust
Straw bale building and other low impact building technologies

Little Green Planet
Local eco building tours

West Wales Renewables
Small scale renewable energy

3P Technik UK
Rainwater Harvesting

Celtic Sustainables
Natural paints and insulation

New Image Bicycles
Electric bicycles

Ymlaen Ceredigion
Open source software for computer systems

EcoPC
Sustainable computer design

West Wales Ecocentre
Energy efficiency and renewable energy advice.

Location

The Guild Hall is in the centre of town at the intersection of the High Street and Priory Street.

Guildhall Cardigan

Map to the event

There is a large car park behind the Guild Hall.

Contact Details

For more information, please contact the organisers:

Aled Stephens -
01239 623506, aled(at)celticsustainables.co.uk

Sarah Wright -
07779 312819, sarahwr(at)ymlaenceredigion.org.uk

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