Creating a Sustainable Sunshine Coast - Nambour to Mooloolah

Our group is mentioned in an article in today's state newspaper! Together with the work I'm doing on energy descent action planning and transition towns the journo quotes me talking about the need for relocalisation in the region. Hopefully this will spark some support and more action on relocalisation here... (read more)

Australian David Holmgren, cooriginator of the Permaculture concept, has launched a new website exploring future scenarios in the context of climate change and peak oil. Site is still under construction but already has plenty of content. Lots to read, discuss and consider... Here is the link http://www.futurescenarios.org./... (read more)

Peak Oil didn't rate a mention at the Australian National 2020 summit organised by the Federal Government. Here is a comment from David Holmgren (co-originator of Permaculture)... Following APC9 (Australia's National Permaculture Convergence held recently) there has been much discussion on the listserve about the divergent opportunities for permaculture activism in Australia... (read more)

Climate Code Red: The Case for a Sustainability Emergency is a new report published by Greenleap Strategic Institute Inc., Carbon Equity and Friends of Earth. It is the starkest, most honest report I've ever read on the seriousness of climate change and it demands immediate and global action - what... (read more)

Interview with Melbourne Community Radio station - a link to the podcast of an interview I did on Transition Towns, Peak Oil, Community Education Centres etc etc. http://wonderfulworldmedia.net/?p=137... (read more)

The Eudlo Relocalisation Group have been invited to have a stall at this year's WOEIE Festival - the Where on Earth is Eudlo? celebration - held in the local school grounds. A great chance to let other people in our community know we exist and what we're up to. As... (read more)

The Maroochy Council will be presenting a talk on Community Driven Renewable Energy Solutions on Feb 8 with Clive Burke from the UK. Clive was involved in the formation and development of the first wind farm in the South East of England which is 100 per cent community owned. SEAC has... (read more)

SEAC has been invited to attend a seminar in West End, Brisbane in March to deliver a presentation on relocalisation strategies happening on the Sunshine Coast.... (read more)

SEAC will be speaking about energy descent planning at a conference at the Southern Cross University in Lismore NSW in February. It is part of an ongoing partnership between the Sunshine Coast and Northern NSW on creating food bio-regions and working together to address peak oil and climate change. There will... (read more)

From 6pm (Melbourne time) tonight (5pm Queensland time), Sonya Wallace - Relocalisation Group coordinator and co-founder of the Sunshine Coast Energy Action Centre will be interviewed on Wonderful World Media network on 94.1FM (in Melbourne) 3WBC. Also available on podcast via wonderfulworldmedia.net I'll be discussing the community education centre here on... (read more)

QUEENSLANDERS are the highest producers of greenhouse gas in the world, emitting 38.9 tonnes per person every year – nearly 11 tonnes more than the Australian average, a first-ever audit has found. The audit, undertaken by the Wet Tropics Management Authority between Cooktown and Cardwell, offers stark warning about the threats... (read more)

In early 2008 the Sunshine Coast Energy Action Centre (associated with Sunshine Coast relocalisation groups) will offer an intensive energy descent action planning course for individual home owners. An abridged version of our popular new Time for an Oil Change course, this course will cover how to prepare your home,... (read more)

The latest IPCC assessment report pulls no punches. This urgent, Nobel Prize winning call to action is yet another tool for any relocalisation group trying to convey the importance of reducing consumption and producing locally. Climate change is "severe and so sweeping that only urgent, global action" can head it off,... (read more)

Last night I interviewed Klaus Harvey, from one of the most well known and successful relocalisation groups in the world, Transition Town Kinsale in Cork, Ireland. Hearing about the progress they're making and the involvement and enthusiasm from the community and the local council is inspiring. I have high hopes... (read more)

Tim Flannery, one of Australia's top scientists and author of The Weather Makers: The History and Future Impact of Climate Change talks to Andi Hazelwood of Global Public Media about his suggested mitigations for climate change on the heels of the alarming new report from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial... (read more)

NEWS FLASH... The Sunshine Coast Energy Action Centre received official notice today that the Sunshine Coast has been recognised internationally as a 'transition town' by the UK Transition Town Network. Through SEAC, the Time for an Oil Change course, the Energy Descent Action Plan, plus all the long-term, well-established, and strong... (read more)

This upcoming ad campaign has become a big hit around Australia - the organisation running it has asked for donations to allow them to air it in today's AFL Grand Final and have been overwhelmed by the response. The fundraising continues with the intent of airing the ad in other... (read more)

Food for thought - group has plan if oil crisis starts to bite here Items in a typical supermarket trolley full of food in Victoria will have collectively travelled 70,000km to come together. “That’s nearly twice round the globe,” said Sunshine Coast Energy Action Centre coordinator Sonya Wallace, who is part of... (read more)

[From the current issue of Eco News - the newspaper of the Sunshine Coast Environment Council, Queensland Australia - due out Sept 21] A NEW community action centre has opened on the Sunshine Coast, which aims to lead the way with real community-based solutions to climate change and peak oil. The... (read more)

I'm very proud to have just completed and published this interview with our new Sustainability Minister for Queensland, Andrew McNamara. Queensland's newly appointed Minister for Sustainability, Climate Change and Innovation talks with GPM's Andi Hazelwood about his robust new portfolio (with double the previous environmental budget), the impending public release of... (read more)

We congratulate Andrew McNamara on his appointment to Minister for Sustainability in the new Queensland cabinet and also congratulate Premier Anna Bligh on her decision. It's encouraging to see a vocal supporter of peak oil action appointed to such a position of responsibility (as State Minister for Sustainability in Queensland Australia).... (read more)

QUEENSLAND is heading for an oil shock. And it is not a matter of if, but when. As crude oil prices hit a record high yesterday, an as-yet unreleased Queensland Government report warns of massive social dislocation, rising food prices and infrastructure headaches because of rising oil costs. The report on the... (read more)

The Big Pineapple Farmer's Market has recently opened and will run on the first and third Saturday of each month. Located at the Big Pineapple at Nambour it's open 8am-2pm Support organic local growers, meet the people who grow your food, enjoy in-season produce and cut out the middle man.... (read more)

We have been featured in the lastest Post Carbon Newsletter... www.postcarbon.org/news/newsletters/aug2007... (read more)

PLEASE NOTE; The Sunshine Coast Energy Action Centre will be closed on Saturday August 25th due to weather conditions. Due to heavy rain and localised flooding around the Sunshine Coast, the decision has been made to cancel the 9.30am presentation on climate change and the 11am Time for an Oil Change... (read more)