The CERES Community Environment Park, or Centre for Education and Research in Environmental Strategies, is an award-winning 10-acre (40,000 m2) urban environmental centre located in urban Brunswick East, Victoria, Australia. CERES is pronounced series, and the name may be partially derived from Ceres the goddess of agriculture in Roman mythology.
CERES received the 1996 Banksia Environmental Award for Education and Training, and has also received many other awards.
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