Special Meeting to Consider South Orange Development
Posted: September 1st 2010
 ECCO is holding a Special Public Meeting on Wenesday September 8th, to discuss the recently released concept plans for a residential and retail development on the Agricultural Research Institute land adjoining Forest Road in South Orange. An overview of the proposed development will be presented (full report, plans and maps will be available). The meeting will commence at 7.30pm in the Function Room at the Parkview Hotel, Summer Street, Orange. Interested members of the community are encouraged to attend.
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Food, Inc. on the Menu
Posted: August 23rd 2010
 More than 130 people attended ECCO's special screening of the Academy Award nominated documentary, Food, Inc., on Sunday August 22nd at the Odeon 5 Cinemas. The movie has been described as an "inconvenient truth about food", as it exposes America's industrialized food system and its effect on our environment, health and workers' rights. It certainly lived up to its publicity, reinforcing the importance of eating locally-grown produce and knowing as much as possible about where and how our food is produced.
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ECCO Team Plants Hundreds of Trees at National Tree Day
Posted: August 19th 2010
 ECCO members were active paticipants in this year's National Tree Day event in Orange, held on Sunday August 1st. Organised by the Orange City Council, this year's event was supported by dozens of volunteers, including a number of ECCO members. Volunteers planted out an area around the detention basin off Kearneys Drive, joining it up with an area planted two years ago on National Tree Day. Between them, the ECCO team and other volunteers planted hundreds of native trees, making for another successful National Tree Day in Orange.
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ECCO
Supports:
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OCAN:
Orange Climate Action Now is a Sub-Committee of ECCO that focuses on taking local action to raise awareness about climate change and to mitigate its impact. OCAN is organising the Walk Against Warming in Orange on December 12.
Local Environment Awards:
ECCO hosts
local environment awards to celebrate the achievements of
individuals and groups who are making a real difference by
taking action on climate change or helping make the City of
orange a more sustainable community.
Earth First:
Earth First is a column that appears in
the Central Western Daily each Saturday. It focuses on a
different environmental issue each week. ECCO has been
co-ordinating contributions to the column since the middle
of 2008.
Daroo Urban Landcare Group:
The Daroo Urban Landcare Group is a group of volunteers working to rehabilitate and revegetate Wentworth Reserve in west Orange. Daroo was the winner of the inaugural ECCO Award for Environmental Sustainability in October 2008.
ELF Community Garden Group:
The ELF
Community Garden Group established
a permaculture community garden at the Environmental
Learning Facility in 2005. The group continues to maintain
and develop the garden, providing an opportunity for members
to garden with others, share knowledge, experiment with new
gardening techniques and enjoy the local produce grown in
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