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Who the Forster Tuncurry Earth Editors are, and our aims
Forster Tuncurry Earth Editors is a not-for-profit organisation made up of concerned local residents who have combined their efforts to produce this website. We come from a variety of backgrounds with one common goal: to reduce the effects of climate change for the sake of our children, future generations and other species.
L-R: Craig Andrews, Sharon Brown, Daniel and David Whittaker, Lucy and Kate Fien, Matilda and Ian Yule, Mary and Tristran Yule, Lyn Cannon, Heather Cadis, Lorraine McBride, Amita Krautloher, Trevor McBride and Greg Smith at the launch of the Earth Editors' website, 29 May 2007
The Forster Tuncurry Earth Editors are:
Chief Editor: Mary Yule.
Editors: Craig Andrews, Sharon Barron, Lyn Cannon, Amita Krautloher,
Trevor McBride, Lorraine McBride, Karin Mitchell and Greg Smith.
Resource Team: Heather Cadis, Kylie Dennis, Kate Fien and Monika Morris.
Photography: David Whittaker.
Our aims:
- To help make a better future for us and our children by reducing the effects of climate change.
- To help protect the natural environment for all species.
- Encourage people, politicians and businesses to make changes towards a more sustainable lifestyle by providing practical and positive information.
- Promote any local services, organisations, products, businesses and events that care for the environment, particularly climate change.
- Share our information and results freely to help the climate change cause.
- Be a not-for-profit organisation and use funds to cover running costs and promote the climate change cause.
- Have respect for people’s cultures, personal views and private lives while promoting the climate cause.
Advisors
Kate Adkins, Assistant Environmental Officer, Great Lakes Council
Tony Doherty, Coordinator, Climate Change Australia, Manning Branch
Jacqui Keats, President Great Lakes Environmental Association
John Ling and Judy Donnelly, Tianjara Eco
Kathleen Smith, President of Great Lakes Environmental Association
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Acknowledgments
Our thanks to: Kate Adkins, Cheryl Bendeich, Ted Bickford, Roy Bisson, Marcelle Boyling, the Brady family, Mel Brown, David Bull, Anne Margaret Coombes, Kevin Corrigan, Tony Doherty, Judy Donnelly, Kerith Duncanson, Andrew Farr, Georg Fiebig, Linda Gill, Kerrianne Hayes, Chris Jones, Jacqui Keats, John Ling, Val Manson, Eva McBride, Kathryn McCabe, Louise McDonell, Lynn Middleton, the Moreton family, Jan Payton, Ronnie Potter, Melanie Ridgeway, Glen Robinson, Gordon Rowland, Audrey Semon, Kath Smith, Kim Tattam, Jason Towers, Adam Verway, Graeme Watkins, Janine Watson and John Weate for their contributions and support.
Thanks also to ABC Mid North Coast Radio, The Great Lakes Advocate, Australian Conservation Foundation, Graham Herring Insurance, Great Lakes Aquatic Centre, Great Lakes FM Radio, Great Lakes College (Senior Campus), Great Lakes Community Resource Office, Great Lakes Council, Great Lakes Library, Kindilan Community Child Care Centre, Leanne White Solicitor and Conveyancer, Prime Television, Video Network Forster, Women Who Will, and our good friends who helped with delivery of booklets.
Website credits
The website was designed and implemented by Savvy Web Design, www.savvywebdesign.net.
The 'Previous and Next Buttons' script used within the Guide sections was custom made by Matt Wharton, www.electricinca.com. The CSS menu is based on code written by Stu Nicholls, www.cssplay.co.uk.
Selected photographs are used under license from iStockphoto, www.istockphoto.com.
Copyright
The information on this website was derived from a variety of sources and is believed to be correct at time of publishing. All information is advisory and provided in good faith.
We are also encouraging other communities to start their own Climate Friendly Guides. If your organisation or group wishes to set up a similar scheme in your area you may use our website as a basis for your own. All text and design from our website at www.climatefriendlyliving.org (with the exception of photographs) can be used with written permission from the Forster Tuncurry Earth Editors, under the following conditions.
- All material is to be used for exclusively non-commercial purposes.
- Credit must be given for any materials used. Please cite the Forster Tuncurry Earth Editors as the source of the content and Savvy Web Design as the source of the website design.
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Anne-Margaret Coombes
Resident of Forster
“Living in the beautiful area that we do it isn't hard to see all that our planet has to give. I don't know what I would do if climate change got so serious that it affected my outdoor lifestyle and the places I love like the beach.
“As a young person I will more than likely witness the damage to our environment as a result of the warming of the earth if nothing is done now to stop it. It's hard not to be overwhelmed with the size of the problem but it is important to remember that we can all do our little bit to help, e.g. keeping showers short or switching off lights when we leave a room.
“The time for procrastination is over. If we do nothing our generation will be affected by the ramifications of global warming. I don't like the thought of living in an oven.”