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Awareness programmes
Social awareness and education goals are pursued through the following channels:
Exhibitions
These exhibitions have an avowedly didactic mission, reflected in the materials and resources used and a subject matter focusing on nature and biodiversity issues. A total of 11 exhibitions toured Spain in the course of 2007, visiting 62 localities in diverse regions and attracting an estimated 286,021 people.projects
These include “A Healthy Planet, Healthy Eating”, an environmental education roadshow in a specially adapted bus. This show toured the Extremadura region in school year 2006-2007 and is currently in Madrid, with a combined total of over 28,115 visitors. -
La Casa Encendida
The environment programme of La Casa Encendida continued to engage with the goals of sustainable development in a creative and dynamic way. A total of 32 courses and training events were organised in the year, with bioclimatic construction and ecological gardening among the most popular. A series of lecture cycles addressed issues like changes in land occupation in Spain, architecture and town planning, market gardens, conservation challenges. the problems of urban areas and inner city green spaces. Among the year's exhibitions, “La lucidez de la luz” championed the use of renewable energies, while “The Solar System” related how the application of modern technologies has changed our vision of the planets.