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The Green Earth Festival will be taking place on Saturday 13 March at the Brisbane City Botanic Gardens. It is a free, family orientated, community event.

If ever there was a buzz about a Brisbane environment event, it has to be the one surrounding the upcoming Green Earth Festival taking place on Saturday 13 March at the Brisbane City Botanic Gardens.

This wide-ranging festival is focused firmly on the family and includes everything you need for a day out such as stalls, food, speakers, live music and entertainment, kids’ zone, video zone, as well as short film, art and fashion competitions.

The Green Earth Festival is being organised by the fledging, not-for-profit environmental awareness group, Green Earth Group Inc. which began early last year when like-minded friends of singer/poet and author Leigh-Chantelle’s saw the need for a uniting of the environmental and animal rights groups.

In 2005 Bronte Surf Life Saving Club decided to begin the process of making their club more sustainable and to work toward the longer term goal of Carbon Neutrality. To date they have progressed in making Bronte Beach an eco friendly and sustainable beach in terms of its use of its solar panels, water recycling and other initiatives.

One tree at a time, to 1 million and beyond, the cooltribe.com community makes its mark

Cooltribe, the recently launched green social networking site, has already started to make a difference. www.cooltribe.com has decided to select the pressing issue of global deforestation as the first cause it will address. For every member who joins the green community, Cooltribe will plant one tree in the rainforest in order to counter illegal logging and deforestation.

"We have set the community the challenge to plant 1 million trees by the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, in December 2009," says Hessia Fernandes, Cooltribe Founder.

"At the current rate of deforestation, 75% of the Amazon will be depleted by 2030. That's not a myth, it's a fact and the consequences will be catastrophic. The more trees we plant, the more difference we make. It's that simple."

Australians called to recycle their old mobile phones and help thousands of koalas affected by the bush fires

Australians can assist thousands of native animals through Koaladoors Inc Koaladoors Project by supporting MobileMuster and Landcare Australia's 'Old Phones, More Trees' campaign and simply recycle their old mobile phones at mobile phone retailers and selected businesses and local councils, during the month of May and until World Environment Day - June 5.

MobileMuster, the official recycling program of the mobile phone industry and Landcare Australia launched the 2009 'Old Phones, More Trees' campaign today, with MobileMuster ambassador and former Miss Australia, Laura Dundovic, at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney.

The 'Old Phones, More Trees' campaign, now in its third year, is a joint initiative, where native trees are planted for all mobile phones handed in for recycling throughout May and until World Environment Day.

What: On Sunday 19 April, Aveda launched its inaugural walk for water campaign, a global initiative that acknowledges the daily struggle of over one billion people who do not have access to clean water. The Sydney Walk for Water began at 10am from Bondi Beach, and walked to Bronte and return.

Aveda salons and spas hosted a series of 6km walks across 26 cities globally, including Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth, with a 6km walk representing the average distance women in developing countries walk daily to collect water (UNISEF).

MobileMuster, the official recycling program of the mobile phone industry, is calling on local councils who have helped promote and collect mobile phones for recycling to enter the 2009 MobileMuster Local Government Awards.

The awards, now in their third year, aim to recognise and celebrate the outstanding efforts by local councils in promoting and collecting mobile phones, batteries, chargers and accessories for recycling.

The five winning councils will be announced during the Australian Local Government Association Conference (ALGA), which will be held at the National Convention Centre in Canberra from 21 June - 24 June.