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  • Eco-Schools

    The Pod has teamed up with Eco-Schools England to help schools progress along their sustainable journey. Find out how all of the activities developed on the Pod have been written to compliment the Eco-Schools programme and the award criteria in England.

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  • Met Office

    The Met Office and EDF Energy are working together, through the Pod, to help educate young people about weather and climate science.

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  • Wastebuster

    Wastebuster is designed to encourage children to minimise waste and carry their learning out of the classroom and into the home, the community and the wider world.

    The Pod and Wastebuster are excited to be working together because of the opportunities it gives us to share Busta and Pong's adventures in waste and explore the practical ways in which children and schools might reduce energy waste.

     

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  • Field Studies Council (FSC) Slapton

    Field Studies Council (FSC) is an environmental education charity dedicated to helping people of all ages to experience the environment at first hand

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  • Eden Project

    The Eden project is an educational charity best known for building giant greenhouses and a global garden in Cornwall. It's a place of beauty and wonder which explores people's dependence on natural resources. Read more about projects that can support your work on the Pod.

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  • EDF Energy London Eye: Learning experiences

    Bring London to life with an experience on the
    EDF Energy London Eye. Astonish, amaze and excite pupils with an incredible perspective of London that is at once a lesson in history, geography, engineering and design.

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  • The Helping Hand Company

    The Helping Hand Company is the UK-based #1 litter clearance hand tools supplier and the world's single largest manufacturer of Litterpickers.

       

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  • The Big Wildlife Garden

    Sign up to Natural England's The Big Wildlife Garden website to find out what you can do to attract wildlife into your garden, share tips and ideas with other gardeners, upload pictures to your own online diary, and work towards one of our top gardening awards.

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  • Water Saving Week

    Water Saving Week 2010, which ran from the 12-18th June, was a national campaign to raise awareness of water waste.

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  • Earth Restoration Service

    Earth Restoration Service (ERS) has a vision for the people of the world to unite in order to meet the monumental challenge of restoring the planet's life sustaining eco-systems.

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  • Carymoor Environmental Centre

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  • Skelton Grange Environment Centre

    The Skelton Grange Environment Centre is an innovative environmental education project which aims to bring alive the issues surrounding sustainable development.

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  • Brocks Hill Visitor Centre

    Brocks Hill Visitor Centre offers practical solutions to environmental problems as well as demonstrating ideas in new technology such as solar water heating. It houses an exhibition, a café, a shop, toilets and a meeting room which is available for hire.

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  • Southport Eco Visitor Centre

    The Southport Eco Visitor-Centre offers a practical and fun demonstration of sustainability by inspiring visiting schools and members of the public to consider our impact on the environment through stimulating information and interactive displays about energy, transport and tourism.

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