Category: Tree Magazine 2003 to Present

EDITORIAL

Our organisation suffered a huge loss last September when our founder and beloved leader, Hop.e Hopkins, left this mortal coil. We would not exist without him, and his ethical, calm, determined commitment to our cause ensured we stayed largely free from sabotage and foolishness. As a kind of gift to us as he left, his passing has resulted in a rejuvenation for us. Old precious people have returned to help, and new, young ones have stepped up. We are stronger now than we have been for a long time, at least in terms of those who do the work. Our financial situation remains tenuous, and we are keenly looking for sponsors to ensure we keep going for another 24 years. Anything you can do to help will be greatly appreciated. read more

                   TREE Magazine AUTUMN 2012

 Cabarita Beach
 Kings Forest
 The Kerry CSG Blockade
The Environment and Awareness
NRG Report
Tweed CAN Report

  * Biosphere
 * Paul Gilding
 * CSG Cobaki
 * Flying Foxes
 * Grow your own house
 * Consuela   * Captain Sage

 View PDF: TREE Magazine SPRING 2011

         TREE Magazine Winter-2011

 The Vampire – The Mur’bah Rally – Tara Report –
– Coal Seam Facts and Fracking Action –
– Biosphere Reserve – Climate Action –
–  The Inimitable Captain Sage –

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          TREE-Magazine_Autumn2011

* Water Wise
* They’re Fracking where?
* How the Rally came and went..
* Byrrill Creek Update   * A Biosphere Reserve   *Stirring the Calderan
* How the Tweed will cope with Climate Change       *Working with Nature * Climate Denial Tweed Style * Captain Sage

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TREE

Tweed River Environmental Echo

 Vol. 9, Issue 15 April 2010

Newsletter of The Caldera Environment Centre

 Link to PDF here:

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TREE, Vol. 9, Issue 12

Editorial-  Developer puppet councillors and/or council bureaucrats call the shots;   Kings Forest and Cobaki Lakes – Concept Plan Applications, Councillor Katie Milne on the inadequacies of the development proposals;  Repco Rally Australia- inappropriate to say the least; The Issue of Public Consultation-   interpreting power relationships; Dear Council-   … please explain;   NSW Spin Doctors Find Another Frog to Save-   tosh served up in the promotion of the Repco Australia Rally;   Community is security-  a Transition Initiative is a community working together  to face the coming crisis;    Bay Street-   where is the transparency recommended by the Bulford and Daly Inquiries?;  Hands Off Country-  help the Kimberley;  Submission by the CEC to the NSW DoP-  objecting to the ‘Developer’ Proposals for Cobaki Lakes and Kings Forest, we don’t think golf courses are appropriate ecological buffers;  Stirring the Calderan- renewable futures. read more

** History and Theme of World Environment Day 2008
** TWEED LANDCARE
** THE NIMBIN ENVIRONMENT CENTRE
** TWEED GREENS
** TWEED CAN
** VEGANISM
** AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
** SEA SHEPHERD
** SUSTAINABLE VILLAGE ALLIANCE
** NORTH COAST CLIMATE ACTION GROUP
** NORTH COAST ENVIRONMENT COUNCIL
** CALDERA ENVIRONMENT CENTRE
** Earth Hour or Green Power: Symbolism Vs Real Action
** Population Limits
** Exploring the Myth
** CRAG Update

 View the pdf here:  TREE_vol_9_issue_11_Winter2008

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Give Your Vote more teeth-  vote multiple times below the line; editorial- when it comes to the federal election there is really only one option, let’s get rid of the Howard gang;   Why vote in a world gone mad?  at some time in the last thirty years, most of us decided that the suburban lifestyle we grew up in was a train wreck waiting to happen, and jumped off;   PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT CONTROL PLAN (DCP) FOR MURWILLUMBAH-  we believe there is a lack of local grass-roots democracy as a result of non residents awarding  consultancy contracts to foreign frms who then do not engage sufficiently with local residents;    TYALGUM DAM, THE OXLEY MORON;   Stirring the Calderan-   if we can remove the weasel-worded one we must be ahead;   Some Questions for Candidates-   for the Seat of Richmond;   Chemical Free Weed Control, Part 4-  WEED SUCCESSION AND REPLACEMENT AT CUMBEBIN;   ROLL OUT THE TANKS IN OZ-   “Clean Coal” and ”Clean and Green Nuclear” are oxymoronic and are a distant pipe dream, (or nightmare);   SUSTAINABLE  FARMS  and  CITIES-   a carnival against carbon. read more

 * TYALGUM DAM
 * WOLLUMBIN (MT. WARNING) SHIELD VOLCANO BIOSPHERE RESERVE
 * Chemical Free Weed Control Part 3.
 * DAMNING THE TWEED
 * Stirring the Calderan
 * PEACE CONVERGENCE
 * WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY June 3rd 2007.

    View PDF:  TREE_vol_9_issue_07_Winter2007

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TREE, VOL. 9, ISSUE 6 

No Nightcap  Nightmare- 420 buildings in a new ‘village’ just outside the existing village of Uki;   Editorial- Full Spectrum Dominance;    Whose Fault?  the conservatives are accountable;   ‘THE TIMES THEY ARE A CHANGING’-  time limits on development consents;  KINGS FOREST- a timeline of the development of the ‘Development’;  RE Kings Forest- Letter to Frank Sartor, Minister for Planning, we have no alternative but to assume that you have summarily withdrawn the undertakings you gave;   The NSW Government ‘In Caldera’ Development Plan- every issue from  water to land the electoral funding  system is The NSW Government Far North Coast Regional Planning Strategy has as its only theme:  the promotion of inland development;  The Ecological  crisis- …  the collapse of the ecology, the collapse of the systems of interdependent, interrelated life forms on this planet, is the ecological imperative for change, we must change;   Chemical Free Weed Control-  All weed species have a beauty as  well as a difficulty;   YOU ARE NOT YOUR GLYPHOSATE-  Glyphosate is a chemical, not a religion or a child or way of life;   Water Policy-  Tweed Shire Council spends half of its budget on water supply, sewerage and sewage effluent disposal;  Stirring the Calderon-  capitalist system can’t be good for a civil society since it’s all about profits for shareholders rather than justice and compassion and community. read more

  TREE, VOL. 9, ISSUE 5

Lest We Forget-  the massive bombing of people and infrastructure (the sewage treatment plants, water supply plants, electrical generation plants, schools and universities) and the depleted uranium fallout from battlefield weapons, adds up to an horrendous social justice and environmental catastrophe;  KINGS FOREST-  the Chief Town Planner’s recommendation regarding the King’s Forest rezoning has Iemma’s and Sartor’s grubby finger marks all over it;  THICH NAT HAHN’S 14 PRECEPTS- precepts or guidelines for life have been used daily as a method for seeing one’s place in the order of things;   The Ecological Crisis- … the collapse of the ecology, the ecological imperative for change;   Council Status Report-  with two (of 3) appointed Administrators residing in Sydney, local knowledge and resident access was always going to be a problem;  GLYPHOSATE-  the current climate of hysterical fear of weeds combined with a shrugging acceptance of the poison allows for no rational discussion;   Chemical Free Weed Control-   weed species currently dominate because soils are under threat;   CHANGES TO THE PLANNING SYSTEM IN NSW-  recent changes to planning laws in NSW include, …;   ARTIFICIAL MASS EARTH MOVEMENT OF HILLSIDES-   the Council appears to be treating the problem of whole hillside regrading as an engineering exercise rather than heeding likely environmental effects and 21st Century best-practise town planning and urban design;   Stirring the Calderan-  if you’re concerned about the welfare of any farm animals in your ken, you can ring Animal Liberation on 1800 751770;   SEA SHEPHERD-  Sea Shepherd managed to keep whalers on the run for fifteen days during the killing earlier this year;   BEN OQUIST ON THE ELECTIONS-  one in six Tasmanians voted for the Greens – that’s 16% of the vote across the Apple Isle. read more

The Caldera Environment Centre

    Tree Vol 9 Issue 4  Dec. 2005.

 TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION WITH TWEED SHIRE
COUNCIL ADMINISTRATORS

1. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ZONES should be “NO GO” Areas
2. PUBLIC PARTICIPATION
3. LIMITS TO POPULATION GROWTH
4. Need to promote TWEED VEGETATION MANAGEMENT
PLAN and native (locally indigenous) vegetation
5. Need to promote WATER SAVINGS AND WATER QUALITY
   6. PUBLIC MASS TRANSPORT compared with PRIVATE AUTOMOBILE
   7. Why not GREEN HARVESTING of SUGAR CANE and PLOUGH-IN?
   8. Why not support application for a BIOSPHERE RESERVE?
   9. FUNDING OF TEDC & TACTIC
10. ROADSIDE POISONING, MOWING AND FLAILING read more

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Vol-9 issue 3-  October 2005

— Wollumbin festival issue
— Wollumbin Dreaming
— AUSTRALIANS AND UNAUSTRALIANS
— Stirring the Calderan- revolutionary  change in Venezuela
— DEBATE- Sustainable Agriculture and Chemical Use
— Party Politics- TWEEDLE DEE / TWEEDLE DUM TEDIUM
–Social Justice and Empowerment:

View PDF:   TREE_vol_9_03_October2005

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Tweed River Environmental Echo

Issue 2.`August 2005

— Editorial- No more dams..
— WE HAVE LOST FIVE GOOD, HONEST COUNCILLORS …
— BUSINESS WELFARE
–- Stirring the Calderan-
-– DEBATE- Weed control and Chemical Use
— THE DREAMING
— DO TREES TALK?
— Water Policy- PART ONE

 View PDF:

TREE_vol_9_issue_02_August2005

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Tweed River Environmental Echo.

Newsletter of The Caldera Environment Centre.

Vol-9. Issue 1.  March 2005.

— Editorial- membership revival needed.
— The Current Inquiry into the Tweed Council …
— Wollumbin Scout Camp
–- Stirring the Calderan-
-– DEBATE- Weed control- Is Roundup the new DDT?
— CEC STRATEGY PLAN : DRAFT FOR COMMENT

 View PDF:

TREE_vol_9_issue_01_March2005

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