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Development Watch

The Sunshine Coast Environmental Council (SCEC) is the umbrella organisation of more than 50 community groups. In this issue of ECO, we feature a group and its role in resisting the tsunami of development that threatens the Sunshine Coast.

Survey after survey has confirmed the sentiment of most Sunshine Coast residents — “We don’t want another [...]

Phil Moran: doing what comes naturally

Phil Moran is so passionate about the environment that he admits to hugging every tree he can.
In his youth he had ideas of pursuing a career in the legal profession, but it wouldn’t have been as satisfying for this man who instead grew to love the bush.
Phil is the natural resource manager for Noosa and [...]

Green Legends of the Sunshine Coast

Book Review: by Valerie Lewis
I first read the script of Elaine’s book while on holiday in Sydney and found myself having to read out passages of it to friends who could hardly believe what they were hearing. A fun park on Mount Coolum? Development on the Marcus Dunes?
While it sounds incredible today, these and other [...]

Dam opposition well and truly afloat

For a community that Government sources claim is starting to accept a dam, Mary Valley residents and others were showing no sign of it when they took too the river to visibly signpost the three mark in their fight too stop the proposed Traveston Crossing Dam.
Three years to the day since Peter Beattie’s shock announcement [...]

People Advocating Green Energy

The Sunshine Coast Environmental Council (SCEC) is the umbrella organisation of more than 50 community groups. In this issue of ECO, we feature the group PAGE and its work which, if successful, will encourage the State government to get serious about climate change and revise their whole strategy of power generation and distribution.
The latest community [...]

Ecology on show at World Environment Day Festival

Do bugs bug you? Do weeds drive you mad? Do you have a weed you want identified? Maybe you would like to know some of the uses for our local plants?
For all the answers, a series of Practical Ecology workshops at the free World Environment Day Festival on June 28th may be just the thing [...]

Green jobs are the key

How many times do green groups need to shout if from the roof tops? Roof tops that could easily be covered in green, clean energy.
Clean energy and energy efficiency industries will create more than 28,000* new jobs by 2020, according to ground breaking economic modelling released today by the Clean Energy Council (CEC).
CEC Chief Executive, [...]

Protecting Bribie Island

Group Name: The Bribie Island Environmental Protection Association Inc

SCEC is the umbrella organisation of more than 50 community groups. In this issue of Eco, we look at a member group from the beleaguered Bribie Island.
Rampant development can be a juggernaut that crushes eco-systems in its path, but on Bribie Island a community group is [...]