Eden Project celebrates first birthday. Tourism leaders hail the success of the ecological attraction which has brought almost two million visitors to Cornwall. [BBC News: sci/tech]

This is a great idea, to start building high tech greenhouses that will serve to research better technologies for soil management by serving as a test bed. Project timeline.

I would love to see greenhouses/arboretums in rust belt environments as a means to supply high quality topsoil, to rehab superfund waste sites as well as a means of providing jobs in economically depressed communities. This could also serve as a means of helping to recreate tropical environments that are being destroyed, so that we could research and preserve the ecologies in a controlled space.

Lastly, this could help us establish a test bed for terraforming planets that are similar to earth, save for the planet's atmosphere.

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