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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 [...]

A great day out with the kids

Sunshine Coast children will have the chance to come face-to-face with marine and reptile creatures, from snakes to sea urchins, during the World Environment Day Festival on June 28, 2009.
The Festival is a free day-out for families that features an interactive children’s and youth area, where environmental care will be more than just recycling newspapers [...]

Books for Gaia

For anyone interested in the people who contributed in various ways to the development of the field, 2008’s Fixing Climate authors Robert Kunzig and Professor Wallace Broecker tell a comprehensive, entertaining and broadly informative story of the history of climate science. (They also offer a technologically demanding and probably unrealistic ‘fix’ for carbon dioxide pollution: [...]

Rebel with a cause

One young lady determined to stand up to climate change is Rebel Lyons (pictured). Rebel is already planning her wholehearted participation in the Sunshine Coast World Environment Day Festival at the University of the Sunshine Coast on Sunday June 28, 2009.
Between the Festival hours of 9am and 4pm, Rebel will perform two environmentally related songs [...]

Coast unites for World Environment Day

The Sunshine Coast World Environment Day Festival, now in its second year at the University of the Sunshine Coast campus, is a free event presented by a four way partnering between the Sunshine Coast Environment Council, Sunshine Coast Regional Council, University of the Sunshine Coast and SEQ Catchments.
As a festival of repute, presented by the [...]

Top musicians line up for environment day

Caring for the environment will not be the only thing on people’s minds when local folk, jazz and soul musicians showcase their talents at the Sunshine Coast World Environment Day Festival on June 28, 2009.
Well known local entertainer Jay Bishoff secured some of the nation’s hottest acts for the event and as a result Festival-goers [...]

World Environment Day 2008

More than 5000 people showed up for the World Environment Day festival on the Sunshine Coast, demonstrating their passion for the planet and learning what they could do to contribute towards a more sustainable future.The weekend event, held at the University of the Sunshine Coast in late June, not only provided a wealth of environmental [...]