The Eden Project is an environmental education project housed in six enormous semi-transparent domes in Cornwall, England. Created in 1999, it has continued to inspire and educate children and adults for the past 20 years. I’ve wanted to go there for a long while and finally was able to do so recently. The leaders of this project can explain it much better than I can so I begin by asking you to view this 5-minute video to learn from one of the co-creators the history, the purpose and the aspirations of the project.
Please click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8unx8-pZxg
Here’s the link to the Eden Project website: https://www.edenproject.com/
On the wall of the welcome center at the Eden Project I found the following. I want to share it with you and your family. On the internet I found it here: https://www.100people.org/index.php
If the World were 100 PEOPLE:
| Gender |
50 would be female
50 would be male |
| Age |
25 would be 0-14
66 would be 15-64
9 would be 65 and older |
| Geography |
60 would be from Asia
16 would be from Africa
10 would be from Europe
9 would be from Latin America & the Caribbean
5 would be from North America |
| Religion |
31 would be Christian
23 would be Muslim
16 would not be religious or identify themselves
as being aligned with a particular faith
15 would be Hindu
7 would be Buddhist
8 would believe in other religions |
| First Language |
12 would speak Chinese
6 would speak Spanish
5 would speak English
4 would speak Hindi
3 would speak Arabic
3 would speak Bengali
3 would speak Portuguese
2 would speak Russian
2 would speak Japanese
60 would speak other languages |
| Overall Literacy |
86 would be able to read and write
14 would not |
| Literacy by Gender |
90% of males would be able to read and write
10% of males would not be able to read and write
82% of females would be able to read and write
18% of females would not be able to read and write |
| Education |
78% of eligible males would have a
primary school education
76% of eligible females would have a
primary school education66% of eligible males would have a
secondary school education
63% of eligible females would have a
secondary school education7 would have a college degree |
| Shelter |
78 people would have a place to shelter them
from the wind and the rain, but 22 would not |
| Urban/Rural |
54 would be urban dwellers
46 would be rural dwellers |
| Drinking Water |
91 would have access to safe drinking water
9 would use unimproved water |
| Food |
11 would be undernourished |
| Infectious Disease |
1 would have HIV/AIDS
1 would have tuberculosis |
| Poverty |
11 would live on less than $1.90 USD per day |
| Electricity |
82 would have electricity
18 would not |
| Technology |
65 would be cell phone users
47 would be active internet users
95 live in an area with a mobile- cellular network |
| Sanitation |
68 would have improved sanitation
14 would have no toilets
18 would have unimproved toilets |
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These school kids from France were in one of the three school groups at the Eden Project on the day I was there.
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