Greenvoice

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Welcome to our global garden: a place of beauty and wonder which explores humankind's dependence on natural resources.

Here you will find crops, landscapes and wild plants which reflect the amazing diversity of our planet. There's also internationally famous architecture and art which draw inspiration from nature; and a stage on which people working to make our world a better place can tell their stories.

A symbol of hope for the future

Ten years ago this place was a barren, exhausted china clay pit. Now its massive Biomes (one of which is the biggest greenhouse in the world) and millions of plants bear witness to what can be achieved by a can-do attitude and the tenacity of the human spirit. Eden is as potent a symbol of hope for the future as you could find anywhere on earth.

Climate Revolution

We are already facing times of unprecedented change – revolutions in science and in the economic and political maps of the world run alongside threats such as pandemics and the 'demographic timebomb'.

On top of this comes the challenge of climate change, ranging from the need to address environmental refugees or to find new energy technologies to the question of how to finance infrastructure changes for more unpredictable weather. The political and financial responses to these threats are appearing today, and are already beginning to change the world.

Together these forces are likely to lead to a level of social change equivalent to the industrial revolution – the Climate Revolution.

Our programme of work ranges from educational projects with schools, the exploration of new technologies for a low carbon world, and public events such as the Sexy Green Car Show.

Gardens for Life

Gardens for Life promotes partnerships between schools, children and teachers to share all the learning that can come from gardening and growing food across communities, cultures and countries.

Where does our food come from? Do people in my town eat the same things as other people in the world? Could we grow the food they eat here? How does a seed become a vegetable? How do plants grow in such small places? How do we build a garden to add nutrition to our diet?

Thanks to Gardens for Life, children are getting answers to these questions.

Over 7,000 children and young people, 120 teachers, with many families and communities (we estimate about 50,000 people in total) in three continents, in the UK, Africa and India have taken part in a 3 year pilot project.

What can you do to help?

The Eden Project is wholly owned by the Eden Trust, an educational charity (charity number 1093070). Our main source of income to date has been that raised from visitors to the Eden Project, but to move forward and expand our educational outreach programmes, including Climate Revolution, we need charitable funds. These funds will be used to develop and expand our Mud Between Your Toes, Climate Revolution and Gardens for Life programmes.

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