Our photographs from May Day are up! You can download full-size versions and/or order prints directly from the album. Enjoy!

If you prefer, you can also see this same album on Facebook, complete with tags and comments.

If you have any photos you want to contribute to this public album, please email us and we’ll send you a special link to do so with!

Usher in the Full Moon Beltane with CCAT

May 5th, 2012 festivities start at noon

Workshops:

1-2: Rope Making

1-2: DIY Natural Body Care

2-3: Life of a Worm

2-3: Macca Ball Magik!

3-4: The Energy of Beltane  & Herb Walk

3-4: Knitting

4-5: May Pole Dance

Activities & Food All Day!

Music Schedule: 
1-2:45 Our Weight in Gold

3-5: Compost Mountain Boys

5-7: No Good Redwood Ramblers

Apply Now @ www.ccathsu.com/jobs

Deadline: Saturday May 12th 2012

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CCAT's retrofitted Clean Cob oven will offset much of Humboldt's energy use over the next three months with relatively low emissions.

For more than three decades, CCAT has played the role of icon and visionary explorer in the fields of appropriate technology and home-scale sustainability. Today, we’re proud to announce a tremendous next step towards a cleaner, better future for CCAT and the greater Arcata metropolitan area. Following a recent visit by OPEC Sustainability Committee Chair Richārdo al-Lignite and the discovery of new hydrocarbon deposits below the Behavioral and Social Sciences building, CCAT has moved forward with an ambitious sponsorship agreement with OPEC, HSU, and the City of Arcata.

Under the new agreement, CCAT will retire its aging photovoltaic power system and instead retrofit its cob oven (a hand-made cooking oven created with earthen materials) to accept a more efficient fuel source known colloquially as “black gold”. The new system will be connected to an old bicycle dynamo to become the region’s premier electrical generator.

“This is a blessed discovery for CCAT and the community,” al-Lignite explained in a press meeting, “Black gold is a 100% solar-produced fuel source, biodegradable by naturally-occurring bacteria, and much more energy-dense than any non-nuclear fuel source currently on the horizon. It combines the aesthetics of wind with the low-impact operations of hydropower.”

When asked about emissions, CCAT Co-Director Eric Recchia said that a pedal-powered scrubber created by students in the Engineering 305 class will ensure that particulate levels will remain below recently-revised limits.

Although a sizable donation to the City of Arcata’s Environmental Services department was met with initial skepticism, CCAT and OPEC were able to show that the new fuel source would provide clean power for all of Arcata for the next three months.

A newly-discovered fuel source under the BSS building propels Humboldt towards energy independence

An Environmental Services employee, speaking anonymously, said “I wasn’t really sure about this whole plan at first. I mean, on the surface it seemed like little more than a bribe for some crazy hippie power plant… I had a hard time believing something like this can really be as clean and efficient as they claim. But after OPEC showed us a high-definition PowerPoint in the re-astroturfed OPEC Crabs Stadium and promised a fleet of Segways modified to run on black gold for the entire Humboldt Roller Derby team, well, how do you argue with that? I just hope the public will understand the tough choices we’re forced to make here from time to time.”

For more information, please see our:
Project Proposal and Draft Environmental Impact Report

RELATED CCAT NEWS:

* Following a series of problematic renovations to CCAT’s experimental greywater system, Co-Director Adam Channel has designed and implemented a new wastewater treatment strategy: a home bluewater system utilizing monthly doses of 2000 Flushes® Automatic Toilet Bowl Cleaner. “If it’s good enough for LA, it’s good enough for Arcata!” Channel was quoted as saying, “I think it’s making the kale turn out bluer than normal, but if we add enough curry, our guests can’t tell anyway.”

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Join us for WAKE UP!

This Saturday March 24th 12pm to 3pm Free @ the KBR