The Queensland Government recently announced an extension to the ClimateSmart Home Service to December 2012. The announcement: Included a $60 million allocation to expand and extend the ClimateSmart Home Service for another two years Highlighted the success of the program with more than 240,000 households… Read more...

Tamborine Mountain residents Bev & Geoff Buckley founded the Green Shed in 2001. The Green Shed has become a feature of Tamborine Mountain—it is a weekly farmers’ market that started selling fresh local organic fruit & vegetables. It has grown each year and now also… Read more...

Nominations are now open for the 2011 Premier’s ClimateSmart Sustainability Awards to showcase the work of Queensland businesses, communities, schools and individuals achieving excellence in sustainable practices. These prestigious Awards recognise Queensland-based initiatives that help reduce our carbon footprint and set best-practice benchmarks in environmental… Read more...

Scenic Rim Regional Council is currently working with the community to develop a long term plan that expresses a shared vision for the region’s future. The Scenic Rim Community Plan will guide Council and community action to achieve the vision and will cover a broad… Read more...

The Green Door Foundation, a Beechmont philanthropic organisation supporting regional environmental and sustainability initiatives, is funding the development of an online sustainability resource for teenagers called “Messages of Kindness”. The project began in mid-2010 when local sustainability writer and educator Sally MacKinnon wrote a series… Read more...

Last year one in 50 Australians took part in the nationwide Clean Up. That is a total of 588,000 volunteers who together, collected more than 100,000 bags of rubbish. Do your bit in 2011 and get involved. There are two easy ways to participate on… Read more...

At 8.30pm (local time) on Saturday March 26, lights will switch off around the globe for Earth Hour – an international awareness campaign to increase understanding about the connections between human energy use and global warming. Earth Hour is organised by the Worldwide Fund for… Read more...

Funding is available for ClimateSmart Business Cluster leaders and all Queensland businesses are invited to join a cluster. The Department of Environment and Resource Management (DERM)  is currently calling for Expressions of Interest to form more ClimateSmart Business Clusters. Continuing on from the success of previous… Read more...

SEQ Catchments is hosting a three day program of short workshops on a variety of land management topics. Where: Boonah Cultural CentreWhen: Thursday 17th to Saturday 19th February 2011 Topics inlude: Managing stream bank and gully erosion Controlling riparian and aquatic weeds Improve your pasture… Read more...

In response to the recent flood event Scenic Rim Regional Council in partnership with the Business Enterprise Centre Ipswich Region will be hosting Business Recovery Sessions on 7th of February in Beaudesert and 8th of February in Boonah between 9am and 12 noon. The sessions… Read more...