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Inside this edition

• Caloundra South development
• Palmview development
• Exploring the Past - Candle Mountain
• Up Close with Ian Lowe
• Traveston Dam: These will not be forgotten years
• Wildlife: Lock up those cats
• Eco Adventures: Booloumba Creek walk
• Book Review: Overloading Australia
• Print Edition

Caloundra South

A city with the population of Gladstone on the Sunshine Coast’s doorstep. Seven-storey buildings may soon welcome our southern visitors courtesy of the State Government’s growth plans. Read the full story.

Palmview

As with Caloundra South, another open space on the Sunshine Coast has been targeted for intensive development. Read the full story.

Exploring the Past - Candle Mountain

In the 1920s, when Vance and Nettie Palmer, the two significant Australian writers, were living in Caloundra, down on the Passage, deeply interested in questions of the human relationship to the environment, they began to ask questions about the land, the place and how it was changing. One time they climbed to the top of Candle Mountain, where they stayed. The air, Vance tells us, was so clear that he could see as far as the Tweed River hills across the state border, in northern New South Wales. Read the full story.

Up Close with Ian Lowe

Ian Christesen, on behalf of Eco News talks to Professor Ian Lowe about the problems associated with the Sunshine Coast’s ever increasing popularity.  A popularity which arises from having ideal temperatures and a stunning natural environment. With developers focusing their attention on large areas of land, poor planning is perhaps one of the biggest threats facing the Sunshine Coast today. Read the full interview.

Traveston Dam: These will not be forgotten years

...“It reeks of politics, signatures stained with tears, who can remember, we’ve got to remember”. These are just some of the words Peter Garret sang proudly in his song Forgotten Years.  However it’s hard to imagine any Mary Valley resident forgetting the years since the proposed dam was announced. Read the full story.

Wildlife: Lock up those cats

... This glider was dead -- killed by a cat.  She had two exquisite little joeys in her pouch.  Though they are viable to rear as furless little babies, these two barely weighed three grams, so it was not a pleasant outcome. Read the full story.

Eco Adventures: Booloumba Creek walk

Rugged landscapes, fast-flowing mountain creeks, waterfalls, cascades and impressive forests are all part of a new walk in the Conondale Ranges, several kilometres south of Kenilworth in the scenic Mary Valley. Read more.

Book Review: Overloading Australia

Greenhouse gases going up. Oil and gas depleting. House prices exploding. Overloading Australia explains why -- and how to stop it. Read the full review.

More articles will be added online over the coming weeks. Population and Consumption: reduce one, but what about the other?, The value of floodplains, plus more. Be sure to check back regularly.

Print Edition

Eco news issue 13 will soon be on the streets and available at the usual outlets. Digital versions of the print edition are available online and more will continue to be added over time.

Contribute

We will be starting the final edition for 2009 shortly. As usual please feel free to contribute articles, interviews, book reviews or stories you might think will be of interest to our readers. Guidelines can be found online.

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Related articles:

1. Overloading Australia
2. The Caloundra South Development
3. Green Legends of the Sunshine Coast
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5. Palmview: fast-track to an urban nightmare?