Green New Year resolutions for 2011

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

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

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

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?

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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Eden at Chelsea

Homeless people and prisoners on day release have created the biggest garden ever seen at the Chelsea Flower Show. Five hundred people supported by 43 homelessness agencies and 50 from eight prisons have teamed up with gardeners from the Eden Project to grow and plant the Places of Change garden, led by award-winning designer Paul [...]

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The Big Launch!

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

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The Big Lunch 2010

The lovely new Big Lunch website is up and running- register your Big Lunch now!

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On me flower head, son! First football matches played at Eden

Teams of homeless champions laced up their boots and strapped on their shinpads on Tuesday (December 15) for the first-ever football matches played at Eden. The world’s biggest greenhouses provided a stunning backdrop for a tournament with a difference, played out between teams of people who have completed the project’s nine-week Great Grass programme. The [...]

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Winter planting

James Clark, Skilled Horticulturalist, tells you everything you need to know to get the most from your veg garden in the winter months.

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