They were given only a huge pile of used tyres, a mountain of old wood – and four days to build a shelter. A tough challenge for architecture students and local volunteers on a constructing with waste workshop at the Eden Project this week… But the result of their four days’ hammering, cutting and bolting [...]

Pull up a chair for the second Big Lunch on Sunday 18th July.

Eden welcomed two very special visitors last Friday from Sarawak in Malaysian Borneo.

A FREE one day course  held at Eden on Thursday 6 May
9:45am (for a 10:00am start) to 4:30pm
 Learn new project planning skills and refresh existing skills in this highly interactive course.  Making it Happen looks at how to successfully run a community energy project from start to finish.  You will take part in hands-on [...]

The Eden Project has launched a unique online ‘green’ careers resource, funded by the DCSF. Focussed on jobs that contribute towards building a sustainable future, Real Cool Futures features an interactive data base of inspirational case studies, written and film.
In addition to the range of career-related information that the site holds, Real Cool Futures [...]

Climate change isn’t just about the weather – it will blow in a fundamental and potentially stormy change to our social climate as well. The effects of climate change – and our responses to it – will transform every part of our lives from work to travel, from health to wealth. In fact, that’s already [...]

This week sees the release of an eagerly awaited, exciting and informative report from The 21st Century Living Project.

The project report called Home Front is a partnership between Eden Project, home enhancement retailer Homebase, and Acona, Home Retail Group’s CR consultancy. It represents the culmination of over twelve month’s extensive investigation with 100 nationally representative [...]

Five thousand green work placements are to be offered to young people aged 14 to 19 in a unique partnership with the Eden Project, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, the RSPB, the Institute for Education Business Excellence and leading businesses.
The £2m DCSF-funded “Green Talent” scheme will nurture and inspire the environmental leaders of tomorrow and [...]

If Father Christmas brought you a new mobile, don’t throw your old one away!

For those who couldn’t make it last week, there is now a short film of the BBC World One Planet Pre-Copenhagen debate at Eden.