Sustainable Snowdonia — The Centre for Alternative Technology

The Welsh tourist attraction that has been ‘going green’ for fifty years

Simon Whaley
Globetrotters
Published in
9 min readMar 21

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The Centre for Alternative Technology — Machynlleth, Wales

“Some 80 million homes could be built from the straw that is wasted every year all around the world,” says Peter, our guide. Immediately, I think of the three little pigs’ nursery story and the big, bad wolf huffing and puffing to blow them…

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Simon Whaley
Globetrotters

Bestselling author, writer and photographer. UK travel writer. Lives in the glorious Welsh Borders.