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Rosie Boycott: I was sceptical about filling a clay pit with tropical trees

March 19, 2011
Author: Guest

Journalist Rosie Boycott was sceptical when she heard about a former record producer wanting to build huge plant-filled domes in a clay pit. Today, she looks back at how Eden has grown up over the last decade. I first heard about the Eden Project from a friend of mine down in Cornwall. She told me [...]

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Brand new edition of Tim Smit’s bestselling book out today

March 3, 2011
Author: Hannah

Today on World Book Day a brand new edition of Tim Smit’s ‘Eden’, officially the bestselling environmental book of the decade, hits the shelves to celebrate our 10th anniversary year.   The book tells the story of how co-founder Tim Smit, along with a dedicated team, delivered the impossible and turned a disused china clay pit into [...]

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Design conference at Eden Project 2-3 March

January 29, 2011
Author: Hannah

We’re proud to be hosting a cutting edge design conference in a few weeks’ time, on 2nd – 3rd March. Arranged by Dott Cornwall along with other leading design organisations, the two-day event will see leading industry figures coming together to discuss the emerging trends driving business change and reveal new opportunities for design practice. Among the impressive line of speakers [...]

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Photos of Eden’s plants on show at Royal Cornwall Museum

January 21, 2011
Author: Hannah

Stunning photos of plants in Eden’s Rainforest Biome have just gone on display at the Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro. The Cornwall-based photographer Trevor Ashby was inspired to create his ‘Earthly Delights’ series by the intricate structures of the many exotic leaves that fall on the paths of Eden’s Biomes. Trevor said: “It all started when [...]

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Could a future Nobel Prize winner be at Eden today?

January 12, 2011
Author: Hannah

“Incredible isn’t it? One dose of food poisoning and the future of America is stuffed.” This was Tim Smit’s opening salvo as he jested with a group of the brightest US students gathered to hear him speak at Eden today. The 40 or so scholars are part of renowned Fulbright programme that has turned out [...]

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Green New Year resolutions for 2011

January 1, 2011
Author: Nina

As we approached 2011, we asked you all to share your hopes and dreams for the coming year. Thanks for sharing your New Year resolutions with us. Here’s a selection that have inspired us:  1. Elaine Parker from Oghma Project Services, a construction company, wants to work with others to find new uses for reclaimed [...]

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Time of Gifts Calendar: Day 9: Top 10 Eden Project Books for Christmas

December 9, 2010
Author: Tom

Books and Christmas go together like… oh… turkey and cranberry sauce, so you might like to check out our very own range of Eden Project Books for gift ideas. Among them you should find something for kids, adults, would-be smallholders, environmentalists, and anyone looking for an interesting read about the world around them. For grown [...]

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Loving the waste

September 3, 2010
Author: Hannah

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 [...]

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Paolo Nutini steps up to support the Barefoot Games

August 3, 2010
Author: Ben

The soulful singer Paolo Nutini is just one of the many people who have shown their support for Eden’s new volunteering scheme the Barefoot Games. We caught up with Paolo just before his second sell-out performance at the Eden Sessions to tell him all about it. The Barefoot Games is a new volunteering scheme for [...]

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Do you know what talent lies down your street?

June 17, 2010
Author: Hannah

Eden has a hunch that our neighbours could be the biggest untapped potential in our lives, so it came up with The Big Lunch, a one-day get-together for neighbours. On one day last summer, the best part of a million people got together across the country to sit together and eat lunch, play games and generally get to know [...]

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