The visitor attraction we run in Cornwall is only the tip of the iceberg of Eden's work. Think of it as our HQ. Many of our staff are working on special campaigns and projects to help bring about positive change in the wider community.

Essentially, Eden's aim is to help find positive futures. That's why we built this place. We know that the 21st century will bring challenges such as rising energy costs, changing demographics, escalating extinctions, global economic shifts and climate change... We also know that, to get in shape for the challenges ahead, we need a culture that knows how to sustain the things that sustain us, and at the same time nurtures creativity, imagination and adaptability.

Check out some of the amazing things we are doing to make this happen, below...

The Big Lunch

The Big Lunch is an annual one-day get together with neighbours nationwide. It's a day to break bread in a simple act of community and to put a smile back on Britain's face - a day to learn just how much we could achieve together if we set our minds to it.
The Big Lunch

Cape Farewell

A collaboration with Cape Farewell to bring artists, scientists and communicators together to pioneer a cultural response to climate change.
Cape Farewell

New Ground with Carnegie UK

Climate change isn’t just about the weather – it could bring blow in dramatic changes to society as well, transforming every part of our lives from work to travel, from health to wealth. We're already seeing some of this take effect, so why is most of the talk is still about Arctic ice? The Eden Project is working with the influential Carnegie UK Trust to help refocus the debate debate on the changes that will affect our lives.
New Ground with Carnegie UK

Clear About Carbon

There is a significant lack of understanding of what a ‘low carbon economy’ means in reality, how it can be achieved and how small businesses and individual members of the workforce can usefully contribute towards reducing their carbon emissions. Clear About carbon is an exciting programme tailored specifically to help Cornish businesses grasp these issues and get ahead of the game.
Clear About Carbon

Climate Fund

The Eden Climate Fund invests in education initiatives that are vital if we are to tackle climate change. Developed by the Eden Project, these include proejcts that protect the rainforest and those that reduce carbon in the atmosphere.
Climate Fund

Climate Revolution

Climate Revolution is Eden's climate change programme. Under this umbrella, we devise educational projects with schools, work with businesses to explore new technologies for a low carbon world, undertake research projects, organise climate-related events, conferences and training sessions and public events such as the first ever Green Car Show.
Climate Revolution

Gardens for Life

Gardens for Life is a programme that offers children everywhere the opportunity to share their knowledge and experience of growing food with their counterparts from around the world. Thousands of children across four continents are taking part, creating school gardens that help them to explore the issues of food security, sustainable development and global citizenship.
Gardens for Life

Geothermal - Eden Deep Geothermal Energy Project

Eden Deep Geothermal Energy Project - in collaboration with EGS Energy - proposes to build the UK’s first geothermal power plant generating both heat and electricity.
Geothermal / renewable energy

Great Day Out

The Great Day Out programme offers socially excluded groups the chance to be involved in tailor made days at the Eden Project which break down barriers, build confidence, and encourage people to make positive steps forward. We work with homeless people, offenders and excluded young people.
Great Day Out

Great Grass

Great Grass builds on the success and experience of Great Day Out.  It is a programme developed jointly by Eden, the Football League Trust, Cisco Systems and South West Football Clubs to provide a structured introductory course for homeless people as a progression route to recognised training courses and employment.
Great Grass

Green Foundation

By taking local employees through a tailor-made programme at the Eden Project, our objective with Green Foundation is to help Cornish businesses make the most of opportunities presented by the transition to a low-carbon economy. With the government committed to a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions of 80% over the next 40 years, there’s no doubt that the way we do business in the UK will be radically transformed. We want to help employees react positively to the challenge - and get ahead of the game.
Green Foundation

Growing for Life

Growing for Life is based on the simple proposition that prisoners growing food inside prisons has a marked benefit on health, behaviour and outlook. We reinforced that idea by working with Cisco to provide learning in prisons (in horticulture, enterprise, life skills, and computing) and a network of social businesses outside the walls to offer extended learning opportunities and jobs.
Growing for Life

Green Talent

Five thousand green work placements are to be offered to young people aged 14 to 19 in a unique partnership with the Eden Project, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, the RSPB, the Institute for Education Business Excellence and leading businesses.
Green Talent

Mud Between Your Toes

Children are spending less and less time outside. Not only are they missing out on a whole world of fun, adventure and really cool games (Hide and Seek anyone?) but there are some serious knock-on effects including health problems, poor social development and little understanding or interest in the environment - especially worrying in the face of climate change. That's why Eden runs Mud Between Your Toes - to reconnect children with the outside world.
Mud Between Your Toes

New Landscapes, New Lives

We are all familiar with visions of environmental disaster, doom and gloom, but there are many extraordinary ordinary people all over the world working thanklessly to improve their surroundings for themselves, their families and communities. Indeed, there are few greater environmental contributions that we can make to the wellbeing of our planet and its people than repairing degraded land on a scale large enough to create new livelihoods and restore fresh running water, fertile soils, and clean air. Eden’s New Landscapes, New Lives initiative aims to promote and deliver good practice in landscape restoration building on our own skills and experiences and a global network of like-minded people.
New Landscapes, New Lives

People and gardens

Based at Eden’s own plant nursery, People and Gardens is a support service run by and for people whose lives have been affected by disabilities, ranging from severe autism to Down’s Syndrome. They aim to promote emotional and physical wellbeing through gardening and group activities within a real working environment.
People and gardens

The Places of Change Garden - Eden Project at the 2010 RHS Chelsea Flower Show

The Places of Change Garden is an ambitious collaboration between national housing and regeneration delivery agency, the Homes and Communities Agency, the Eden Project, national membership charity for frontline homelessness agencies Homeless Link, and the Department for Communities and Local Government. The show garden for the 2010 RHS Chelsea Flower Show, Places of Change, which won a silver medal, was developed by homeless people right across the country.
Places of Change - Eden Project at the 2010 RHS Chelsea Flower Show

Plant Talk

Plant Talk was founded in 1995 and was designed as an independent voice to help and support all those fortunate people who work in the conservation of plants; either professionally or as amateurs. Eden Project has taken Plant Talk under its wing to foster the next, exciting stage of its life.
Plant Talk

The POD - for greener schools

Our Climate Revolution programme is helping EDF Energy to shape The POD, a web-based schools programme designed to show schools and parents how they can minimise their impact on the environment and help promote a sustainable future.

Carrying a range of modules that are linked to core elements of the National Curriculum, The POD also gives schools the opportunity to make real and effective change themselves. Schools will be able to record their progress on The POD as well as keep track of the energy and water they've saved since joining the programme on their own 'Podmeter'.
The Pod

Responsible Mining and the Post Mining Alliance

Since March 2002, Eden has been in partnership with mining industry leader Rio Tinto. We have been working together to improve the understanding of both the role the minerals industry plays, and what constitutes good practice and responsible mining. Through the partnership, we have successfully launched two initiatives to drive better performance by the mining industry: one on post-mining regeneration and the other on materials stewardship. The Eden Project is one remarkable example of post-mining regeneration. It is hoped Eden can be used as a platform from which to inspire broader action on mining regeneration.
Responsible Mining and the Post-Mining Alliance

Real Cool Futures

The Eden Project has launched a unique online ‘green’ careers resource, funded by the DCSF. Focussed on jobs that contribute towards building a sustainable future, Real Cool Futures features an interactive data base of inspirational case studies, written and film. In addition to the range of career-related information that the site holds, Real Cool Futures provides a downloadable range of innovative teaching resources designed in partnership with practising secondary school teachers.
Real Cool Futures

Seeds, Soup and Sarnies

People living near the Eden Project are being given the chance to learn how to grow their own food and make new friends as part of a three-year Big Lottery-funded programme. Seeds, Soup and Sarnies is open to people living in St Blazey and Treverbyn parishes and parts of St Austell and will provide families with the chance to share gardening skills and their favourite recipes. Funded by the Big Lottery Fund’s Family Learning Programme, Seeds, Soup and Sarnies aims to help parents understand more about how their children learn and encourages adults and children to develop new skills as a family.
Seeds, Soup and Sarnies

Waste Neutral

Waste Neutral is our award-winning waste management programme. We're on a journey of discovery looking for ways to improve what we do and how we do it. We don't always get it right, but where we do, we will share our learning.
Waste Neutral

The 21st Century Living Project

The 21st Century Living Project is a collaboration between the Eden Project and Homebase, and is part of Eden's Climate Revolution programme which explores ways of reducing climate change and adapting to the changes that are already taking place. This unique project gave 100 lucky households a great opportunity to get involved and help us explore the challenges and opportunities facing us all when adapting our homes, behaviour and lifestyle to 21st century living.

The 21st Century Living Project