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Why use bamboo?

December 22, 2011
Author: Harriet

It’s easy to underestimate the humble bamboo as just panda food. But in fact many people rely on it around the world. It’s such a versatile material, providing scaffolding, clothing, tools, paper, chopsticks, bikes, toys, food and drink, to name just a few. Bamboo is actually a type of grass – one of the fastest growing [...]

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Top tips to look after birds this winter

December 14, 2011
Author: Harriet

Spare a thought for our feathered friends this winter. Freezing temperatures, snow, ice and strong cold winds make it difficult for birds to find the food they need to survive. Here are few tips to help birds through the cold snap. Ensure there’s always a supply of feed for the birds Eden birdcake This high [...]

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Win season tickets to Eden Sessions 2012

June 16, 2011
Author: Hannah

We’re offering you the chance to win an exclusive season ticket for Eden Sessions 2012, entitling you and a friend to free entry to each performance at next year’s exciting line-up. It’s sooo easy to enter – simply text the answer to our simple question on our competition page, by 5pm 31 August 2011. All [...]

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Celebrity green quiz raises money for new rainforest experience

May 17, 2011
Author: Hannah

We’re currently fundraising to develop an exciting new treetop walkway and learning centre inside our Rainforest Biome (right), to bring our visitors and school groups an even richer experience when they come to Eden. So it’s great news that last week’s quiz night, hosted by comedian Marcus Brigstocke and TV designer Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, has raised more than £40,000 for [...]

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Rainforest Biome supports struggle against illegal logging

May 11, 2011
Author: Dan

We got up to some serious play yesterday as rainforest conservation biologist Dr Mika Peck took a trip up in Eden’s canopy balloon to collect leaf samples from our tropical trees. He’s using the plant material to start making a genetic fingerprinting tool to help combat illegal logging. Eden’s huge indoor rainforest is an ideal [...]

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How to live a life that makes you, others and the planet happy

April 18, 2011
Author: Guest

Forget lists about turning your thermostat down one degree, says Eden’s Tony Kendle. Here’s the mother of all top 10s – on living a life that makes you, others and the planet happy. There’s no shortage of top tips for a greener life: fitting energy-saving lightbulbs and so on. But are they useful? Yes and no. [...]

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The five scariest places on Earth – environmental journalist Fred Pearce

April 15, 2011
Author: Guest

Environmental journalist Fred Pearce picks the five scariest places he’s been around the world – from natural habitats under threat to spots where the effects of climate change are plain to see. Yet he remains optimistic. I’ve visited some 70 countries in the last 20 years trying to make sense of the world – its [...]

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What if we had a second chance in the Garden of Eden?

April 12, 2011
Author: Guest

The real Garden of Eden was a true paradise, a place to which we can never go back. But what if we could have a second chance in Eden, asks the RSPB’s Mark Avery. What would we do differently this time? Imagine that you’re on a spaceship, having left a now desolated Earth with a [...]

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How to do eco in style, by green living expert Joanna Yarrow

April 1, 2011
Author: Guest

Can reducing your environmental impact really be as fun as phone apps, fashion and organic vodka? Green living expert Joanna Yarrow shows us how to do eco in style. So, I have good and bad news. Starting with the not so good… the problems the planet’s facing haven’t arrived from outer space – they’re the combined outcomes of all our [...]

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Explorer Monty Halls picks his most precious square mile on Earth

March 30, 2011
Author: Guest

Explorer Monty Halls has ventured to some incredible – and often threatened – corners of the world. Today, for Eden, he picks just one place that he would preserve above all else. If there is one square mile on planet Earth I had to save – aside from Twickenham rugby stadium of course (or HQ, [...]

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