Eco online: environmental news, features and opinion from the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia
Environmental news from Eco online, Sunshine Coast and Queensland environmental news, with indepth sections including interviews, sustainable business, eco adventures, green living and wildlife
Welcome to issue 9 of ECO online In this edition we explore sustainable housing with examples and solutions for existing owners, new builders and renovators. We hope you enjoy reading ECO and don't forget you can make comments on articles or suggest new themes to cover. ECO news (print version) will be on the streets soon. Keep an eye out at … [Read more...]
Addressing the Australian Institute of Company Directors, Bob Cameron of Rockcote remembers the course he took with them years ago. "I was taught that a company is made up of plant, equipment and capital. Staff is outside the company and just employed to run things," he said. He disagreed back then and still does. "A company is a community … [Read more...]
Letters to the editor What a sad day for all Queenslanders when Premier Anna Bligh decreed that every man, woman and child will be forced to ingest fluoridated drinking water. Fluoride is a highly toxic chemical substance made from the waste product during the manufacture of insecticides. Scientific studies, with all the variables controlled, … [Read more...]
Letters to the editor I wanted to write on behalf of my family and express our appreciation at having such a great newspaper as ECO on the Sunshine Coast. The paper reflects our concerns about the environment and yet provides balanced comment and most importantly ecologically sustainable ideas and solutions to some of the most pressing … [Read more...]
Green Travel: the World's BEST Eco-Lodges & Earth-Friendly Hotels Green travel has arrived. Coinciding with Richard Branson's efforts to find alternate energy for his Virgin fleet, is Fodor's first guide to eco-travel around the globe.  Entitled Green Travel: the World's BEST Eco-Lodges & Earth-Friendly Hotels, it covers … [Read more...]
Sustainable housing design and development must come out of the too-hard basket if greenhouse emissions are to be seriously combated. This edition of Eco brings sustainable development home, exploring the issues of housing in a changing climate. Ann White reports. The recent international Green Cities Conference heard that each resident of … [Read more...]
Building a house using traditional methods can result in waste and large environmental footprints, but a number of local building companies are rethinking how it's done. Their different approaches, selection of materials and careful design can reduce a home's ecological footprint during construction and over the life of the building. Complete with … [Read more...]
New housing developments need not link to centralised water and sewerage systems, according to a Sunshine Coast surveyor and town planner. Greg Downes, of the Downes Survey Group, speaks from experience when he explains his belief that the water and sewerage needs of new housing developments could be self contained in many cases. "A lot … [Read more...]
Image: The Davis family gets a trial run on the purple pipe network that will deliver quality recycled water. The Sunshine Coast and the Gold Coast are seen as rivals in many ways. Sunshine Coasters see their southern counterpart as a high rise shrine to the gaudy and glitzy, whereas many Gold Coasters regard their northern neighbour as being a … [Read more...]
Signing up to the Living Smart Homes Project has proved a catalyst for deep changes in how one family view the environment. Image: Dayle Batistic and daughter Elleah, and the others in their household, are reaping the rewards of completing the energy and water modules of the Living Smart Homes Project. Photo: Courtesy Batistic … [Read more...]
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