Sunshine Coast Hinterland Times

Sponsor a Solar Cell

MALENY’S Maple Street Co-op has launched a Sponsor a Solar Cell Project. The aim is to have a row of six solar panels erected on the roof of the Co-op with sponsors opting to pay for a fraction of a silicon cell, or up to a full panel – from $3 to $3000. A complete [...]

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Licence to kill wildlife? – by Sammy Ringer

Most people would answer ‘Yes’ to that questionbut they’d be wrong. Local lawyer Margaret Rimmer picked up a badly injured, pellet-laden Sulphur-crested Cockatoo from her yard last month. The man who shot it told her he had a licence from EPA. The bird had to be euthanased. Further investigation with EPA confirmed that the man did hold a licence to kill cockatoos. [...]

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MALENY COMMUNITY ASKS COUNCIL … Where is our Obi Obi walkway?

A public meeting of almost 200 Maleny residents on August 28 questioned Council’s spending priorities on the Maleny Community Precinct. SUNSHINE COAST COUNCIL has completed its Master Plan for the Precinct but has left off the plan a key community resource – the 4km walkway from the township to Gardners Falls. There was also concern over [...]

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Population PERISH or PROSPER?

The Hinterland Times is delighted to present edited extracts from the latest quarterly, Griffith Review 29 Prosper or Perish. This edition presents startling and informative links between climate change and population, and their likely social impacts on humankind. We thank GR editor Julianne Schultz AM for her permission to feature extracts from three key essays, [...]

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Delving into numbers

IT IS interesting at times to look at real figures. The Maleny IGA through its Community Chest supports 134 groups with a combined membership of 6,352. Thank you Maleny Supa IGA! A quick glance at the website shows Barung Landcare right up there with Maleny Hospital in terms of membership support, which is quite an achievement  for [...]

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In the Wild with Spencer Shaw

Saving the creek banks ONCE UPON A TIME … not too long ago, it was considered good practice to remove useless scrub and brush from creek banks and replace it with pasture. Not only did the scrub along the creek and river banks reduce the area that could be grazed, but the trees often fell into [...]

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In the Wild with Spencer Shaw

Climate Change Well, who knows what the weather will be like when you are reading this, but at the end of July it looks like spring is well and truly upon us. Trees and shrubs are covered in new growth, the grass is starting to green up, birds are starting to collect nest material and down [...]

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OUT and ABOUT

AUGUST is a great month to enjoy our natural environment. Here on the Range we have the Festival of the Walks, while down on the coast the wallum wildflowers will be coming into bloom. Growth is resuming and spring is in the air despite the fact that it’s still winter, at least according to the [...]

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Black is Green for Father & Son Inventors

A father and son team have invented a practical thermal treatment for making a charcoal soil additive from organic green waste. Stan Joyce of Maleny spoke to the Hinterland Times about this remarkably effective waste treatment process that got Stan and his son James into this year’s finals of the Queensland Premier’s ClimateSmart Sustainability Awards. AS [...]

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It’s a Whale of a Walking Week

THE SECOND Sunshine Coast Hinterland, Festival of the Walks will be launched with the announcement of the Photographic Competition award-winners at 5pm at Flame Hill Vineyard in Montville on Friday August 20. Montville Coffee is the generous sponsor of the 2010 photographic competition providing a first prize in the adult section of $1000. Second prize is [...]

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