The Eden Project

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