All around us we are experiencing significant development growth and change as a direct result of burgeoning population growth. All of us are impacted – negatively and positively – in some way, and the impacts have a direct influence on the quality of our lives and our aspirations. While the Sunshine Coast Environment Council publishes Eco, the newspaper is not designed to be a mouthpiece only for the Council and its members.

Eco is designed to be an independent community forum; a newspaper that intends to report on the major issues affecting our current and future lives without fear or favour. Eco aims to foster original thought and embrace quality communication in the vital areas of our environment and conservation. Remember without a healthy environment we cannot achieve individual and community health and social cohesion.

The publication and timing of the Eco newspaper comes at a crucial time for the Sunshine Coast. All around us we are experiencing significant development growth and change as a direct result of burgeoning population growth.Eco intends to report on some of the most pressing issues of our time and how they  relate to our local Sunshine Coast community and our collective future. Those issues include such big-ticket items as Climate Change, Water and Energy, Natural Resource provision and use, Population Growth, Sustainability and Environmental Health.

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Each of the above does have an impact on each of us, whether we realise it or not. So Eco will adjust the microscope as it attempts to reflect on them and how they relate to our own backyard. Planning and urban development, business and industrial development, ecosystem health, coastal management, community development and social cohesion are all issues in which we participate whether we want to or not.

All around us government decisions are being made without necessary and complete community involvement. Planning processes are being manipulated daily by vested interests without community input and consideration. Whether we have an active interest and role in those decisions is one of personal choice. Too often that choice is curtailed through lack of opportunity and a lack of information. Eco hopes to fill a void in the information flow and the independent analysis of decisions impacting the Sunshine Coast.

The newspaper hopes to do this in part by writing about people and issues that actively surround us. We intend to come to you every two months, enough time for you and us to seriously put together interesting and novel reflections on the major issues of our time. Whether you call it Eco (ee-co) or Eco (echo), we look forward to being a window on our world with your involvement and your interest.

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