Now, at age 51, Crump is overhauling the Eden Prairie, Minnesota company he started in 1988.
The panels for the Eden Project in Cornwall are also made of the material.
China is planning to develop a version of the Eden Project, the BBC has learned.
The local planning referendum in the Eden Valley was the first to be held in England.
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The Eden Project describes itself as being "the largest indoor rainforest in the world".
The Eden Project Limited is owned by the Eden Trust, a registered UK charity.
Entrance to the Eden Project, for the broadcast, will be free after 18:00 GMT.
This year, BBC South West's Children in Need party comes from the Eden Project in St Austell.
Staff at the Eden Project near St Austell in Cornwall have been told up to 70 jobs could be lost.
Mr Smit spoke as the Eden Project marks 10 years since it opened in a former clay quarry near St Austell.
The Eden Dental Surgery in Carlisle went private two weeks ago, slashing its patient list from 5, 500 to just under 3, 000.
In 2006 the council's cabinet decided to "freeze interest payments in order to facilitate the further development of the Eden Project".
The awards ceremony, which was presented by BBC Radio Cornwall's Daphne Skinnard, was held at the Eden Project near St Austell.
The youngster has also been approached by the Eden Project to star in a promotional video, as well as local clothing firms.
It is a long way from 2001 when the Eden Project was launched and invited local firms to do business with it.
More than 100 professional and amateur bakers are at the Eden Project in Cornwall in the second annual celebration of the dish.
Until 2006, money also goes to the Millennium Commission, which has supported the Eden Project and the much-criticised Millennium Dome at Greenwich.
Much is expected of the Eden Project's contribution to the Cornish economy.
Ehret's fruitarian diet, also called the Eden Garden Diet or Ehretism, is often used as a type of cleanse, according to LiveStrong.com.
The Eden Project, which brings in millions into the Cornish economy, had also been open for only nine months by the end of 2001.
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The issues involved in the poll are very specific, and very local, but what's happening in the Eden Valley area is being closely watched.
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Places like the Eden Valley have a track record of community engagement - it was in the vanguard of David Cameron's Big Society idea.
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Voters in the Eden Valley are deciding whether to adopt a plan for housing and infrastructure drawn up by a group representing 17 parish councils.
Network Rail said the futuristic station, featuring a roof built with the same material as the Eden Project in Cornwall, will open on 13 September.
The Eden Project, a so-called living theatre of plants and people, in St Austell in Cornwall, has attracted nine million visitors since opening in 2001.
The coating for the Eden Foods canned products is a solvent-based technology that is commonly used in 3-part cans for mild foods, such as beans.
Crucially, the Eden Project is essentially the vision of one entrepreneur.
Tim Jones of the Devon and Cornwall Business Council said there was "no doubt at all" that supporting the Eden Project with public money was right.
The new centre will stand alongside the Eden Project's plant-filled biomes - large greenhouse domes, on the site of a former china clay pit near St Austell.
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