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Tim Smit (Eden Project)
Wednesday 23 April 2008, 18:00-19:30
Sustainable Development at the Eden Project
- đ¤ Speaker: Tim Smit (Eden Project)
- đ Date & Time: Wednesday 23 April 2008, 18:00 - 19:30
- đ Venue: Lecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street
Abstract
Tim Smit was responsible for starting the Eden Project, near St Austell in Cornwall, an ÂŖ80 million initiative to build three transparent biomes in an old china clay pit. The biomes contain different eco-climates loosely based on the different climates found throughout the world – tropical jungle, temperate, and desert. Eden professes to educate people about environmental matters and encourages a greater understanding and empathy with these matters.
Smit was awarded the CBE in the 2002 New Years Honours List, and in 2006 he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Design degree by the University of the West of England “in recognition of his outstanding achievements in promoting the understanding and practise of the responsible management of the vital relationship between plants, people and resources, which have made a major contribution regionally, nationally and internationally to sustainable development, tourism, architecture and landscape architecture”.
Series This talk is part of the 10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012 series.
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