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Ecos Millenium Environmental Centre
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Tags: northern ireland, schools
Location: Antrim, UK
Type: Attraction
Northern Ireland’s leading environmental visitor attraction brings sustainability to life and get to grips with the future of renewable energy and climate change. The Centre is built on former derelict farm land prone to flooding and now covers an expanse of transformed wetlands, woodland, grassland, ponds and lakes. The building houses Ireland’s largest selection of solar water heating…
Centre for Alternative Technology
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Tags: wales
Location: Powys, UK
Type: Attraction
Rather than setting the blueprint for the ‘village of the future’, the Centre for Alternative Technology is achieving a far more important goal which is to bring sustainability into everyday life. Over 65,000 visitors a year to the centre and green shop not only learn but participate in a better understanding of our impact on the environment and ways to reduce our energy consumption.…
Earthship Fife
Location: Fife, UK
Type: Attraction
The first Earthship to ‘land’ in the UK was at this spot in Fife. The concept originated in the USA and involves the construction of self-sufficient and affordable buildings which reduce their impact on the environment. Earthships can be adapted to almost any climate using different recycled and reclaimed materials for construction. The Earthship is built into the landscape and its walls…
The Scottish Seabird Centre
Location: East Lothian, UK
Type: Attraction
Balanced on a rocky platform jutting out to sea, the Seabird Centre in North Berwick provides a unique wildlife viewing point toward the islands of the Firth of Forth. Visitors can enjoy a privileged insider peak at birdlife and sea creatures of the islands using unobtrusive and state-of-the-art cameras. The live action cameras are fully controllable from the centre and open up unparalleled detail…
National Botanic Gardens of Wales
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Tags: gardens
Location: Carmarthenshire, UK
Type: Attraction
The Botanic gardens are the result of a millenium project which saw restoration of one of the UK’s finest estates, a place where a myriad of interconnecting waterways and springs once flowed. Today however, nature has returned to its fullest in the diverse selection of gardens and restored aquatic life where the curious past still peers into present day. The Japanese garden is a fine example…
