Green Tourism

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There are a growing number of visitor attractions in the UK devoted to the issues of environment and sustainability.

Centre for Alternative Technology

Machynlleth, Powys SY20 9AZ
(01654) 703 743
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Offering residential Family Summer Holiday Week with activities including painting, sketching, mountain walking and beach trips, plus some separate sessions for adults and children.
Accommodation is either on the main site or in the Eco Cabins with simply furnished rooms of 2-5 beds. Meals are served in the wholefood vegetarian restaurant. Extra courses can also be arranged through the year for groups of 12-plus.
Also offer family weeks staying in the Eco Cabins with a chance to live a green lifestyle.
Also a family bird watching week.
The family week is £250 for adults, £125 for children sharing a cabin. Pure self-catering other weeks is £200 for four people for a week, £350 for two weeks.
The bird watching weekend is £90 for adults, £50 for children.

The Earth Centre

Denaby Main, Doncaster DN12 4EA
(01709) 513 933
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A 400-acre ecology park with sustainable buildings, exhibitions, landscaping and gardens, Green gardens cover a former coalmine and regenerated coal spoil is planted with more than 100,000 trees. Things to do include nature trails, hands on exhibitions, aquatic ecology, a play area, a film show and more.

The Eden Project

Bodelva, St Austell, Cornwall PL24 2SG
(01726) 811911
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The most successful of the Millennium projects, the vision of one man. As it is constantly busy it is worth trying to visit outside peak times. The objective is ‘To promote the understanding and responsible management of the vital relationship between plants, people and resources leading to a sustainable future for all.' It is accessible for children and includes intelligent ideas for them such as a film where everything which doesn't rely on plant life to disappear from a filmed room - that rules out all wood, all wool (the sheep need grass), all cotton, etc, until finally there is a bare room.

Nature's World

Ladgate Lane, Acklam, Middlesbrough TS5 7YN
(01642) 594 895
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‘Demonstrates practical ways to improve our quality of life and the environment.' A 23-acre attraction including an earth-sheltered structure using geothermal heating and including a hyroponicum, a large bowl-shaped dome heated by solar power and sunlight reflected off a lake.