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Mike Berners-Lee: climate change doesn’t mean less fun

March 29, 2011
Author: Guest

As Eden celebrates its 10th birthday, we asked carbon guru Mike Berners-Lee to get out his calculator and design us the ideal party that scores high on fun and low on emissions. Climate change stories aren’t often positive, but I’ve got some good news: we can have at least as good a time in a lower [...]

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Explorer Robin Hanbury-Tenison on why he likes Eden’s rainforest just as much as the real thing

March 24, 2011
Author: Guest

Acclaimed explorer Robin Hanbury-Tenison helped lay the foundations for the global rainforest movement. He tells us why Eden is an important part of the story too. I’m the hot place explorer. I don’t do cold or high or the sea, if I can help it, but I have spent much of my life travelling in [...]

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Leo Hickman: why Eden fills me with hope

March 22, 2011
Author: Guest

Journalist Leo Hickman used to pick blackberries near Bodelva as a child. Today he celebrates the fact that Tim Smit’s ‘grand vision’ – in competition with proposals for a landfill site - ever got off the ground. One of the things worth celebrating as Eden marks its 10th birthday is that it is the rare embodiment of what [...]

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Eden’s Tim Smit asks government to reconsider forest sell-off

January 28, 2011
Author: Hannah

Tim Smit has added his name to an open letter to the government asking it to reconsider the recent proposal to sell England’s public forest estate to commercial interests on the open market. As CEO of a place that believes in exploring our relationship with the natural world and outdoor wild play (below), Tim has [...]

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Rainforest Biome stars in new David Attenborough documentary

December 23, 2010
Author: Hannah

Tune into the new David Attenborough wildlife documentary on Christmas Day and you’ll spot Eden’s Rainforest Biome. Sir David and the film crew came down to Eden to shoot parts of ‘Flying Monsters 3D’, which tells the story of pterosaurs – flying vertebrates with a wingspan of up to 45 feet that lived 200 million [...]

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First Cornish businesses to complete Eden’s sustainability course

December 22, 2010
Author: Hannah

The first group of Cornish businesses have just completed Eden’s Green Foundation sustainability course – and they tell us they’re excited about the next steps in greening their organisations. 35 participants from enterprises as varied as Newquay Zoo and the Falmouth Docks & Engineering Co. have spent 10 days over the last few months learning about everything from [...]

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Geothermal power plant at Eden gets go-ahead

December 17, 2010
Author: Hannah

Great news – we’ve just been given planning permission to build a geothermal power plant at Eden. We’re collaborating with EGS Energy to bring the revolutionary green technology to Eden, where it will draw energy from deep below the earth’s surface to produce heat and electricity. The plant should produce up to 4MW of electrical capacity, [...]

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Today’s Plant Record: ‘Kaap’ren Varen’, by Fungus

November 26, 2010
Author: Chris

‘Kaap’ren Varen’ – Fungus For a bit of fun on Fridays Chris Bisson, the guy who maintains all the recorded information on Eden’s plant collection as our Plant Records Manager, recommends his favourite “plant records” – that is, songs that are in some way linked to a plant. Fungus, a Dutch Folk Rock band from the early [...]

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Eden team heads to Chile to talk mines

November 26, 2010
Author: Hannah

Chile has certainly been in the news recently, so what better place for a mining conference? Our responsible mining team are out there this week, sharing Eden’s inspiration and expertise on what to do when mines reach the end of their working life. Members of our Post-Mining Alliance are giving a talk at the international [...]

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Local school lanterns safe from flood waters

November 17, 2010
Author: Mikki

14.30: We’re really pleased that the lanterns that we’ve been creating with local schools for the St Austell Torchlight Carnival have survived the torrential rains and are safe, dry and looking as beautiful as ever. The delicate lanterns were being made in our Dome Tent, which is right at the bottom of the site, where [...]

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