Happy Environment Day! Despite the crises our natural world is facing, its resilience and beauty is always worth celebrating. I hope you have found a way to do this today.

It's a jam-packed edition of Paperbark, because in typical North Queensland fashion, as the weather cools down, events heat up!

In the past few weeks, we've quizzed at Green Drinks, gathered with members at a General Meeting and mingled with locals at Ecofiesta! The month ahead is looking just as busy, so make sure to mark our events in your diary!

- Crystal, NQCC Coordinator

In this edition:

• Climate Action
  • Heat & Hazards at Ecofiesta
  • Join a Story Circle!
  • Movie Screening: Walanbaa Ngiiyani
• Energy Transition
  
  • Renewables at Ecofiesta
  • Energy Champions Training
• Reef and Water
  • Beach Cleanup this Friday!
  • Mundy Creek Working Bee
  • Reef Blitz
  • Waterways Art Comp
• NQCC News
  
  • General Meeting
  • Green Drinks
  • Garage Sale
  • New WhatsApp group
• Other Opportunities
  
  • Renter energy survey
  • Mackay Conservation Group is hiring
  • Volunteer with us!

CLIMATE ACTION

Heat & Hazards: Ecofiesta

At Sunday's Ecofiesta, we asked locals about their experiences with extreme weather. We gained great insights, meaningful engagement and some excellent, eye-catching data to support our Heat & Hazards campaign - calling upon the State Government to fund appropriate climate adaptation measures and pushing for nature-based solutions. You can help by signing up to a Story Circle!

Story Circles

Help us to build a picture of the lived experience of climate change in North Queensland. If climate change has touched your life in some way while living in this region, we would love to hear your story!

We will be holding our first story circle on Sunday 16th June (2-4pm) at the NQCC office. RSVP here!

LEARN MORE AND INVITE FRIENDS

Movie Screening

NQCC is joining with Move Beyond Coal to bring you an intimate backyard screening of Walanbaa Ngiiyani: Stronger Together. This short documentary shows how incredible bonds of solidary are formed in the fight to protect Country and climate and build a powerful shared resistance.

When: 6 - 7.30pm Saturday 22nd June
Where: NQCC office

RSVP

ENERGY TRANSITION

Renewables at Ecofiesta

70 people participated in our interactive survey at Ecofiesta, which asked them to rate their support for the energy transition and how informed they felt about it. Most were moderately to extremely supportive of renewables, but many felt under-informed. Thank you to everyone who stopped by our stall! We will use this feedback when engaging with government and energy developers in NQ.

Energy Champions Training

Are you a champion of renewable energy, based in North Queensland? Would you like to meet other energy champions and gain more knowledge and skills? This FREE, full-day, in-person training has been postponed until Saturday 13th July, giving you a second chance to register! Gain some new skills from facilitators, speakers and trainers from all over!

REGISTER NOW

REEF & WATER

Beach Clean-Up

Join NQCC and Tangaroa Blue to help prevent marine debris from entering the Great Barrier Reef! You'll be helping clean our beautiful beaches whilst gathering important information for the Australian Marine Debris Initiative Database.

When: 2 - 4.30pm Friday 7th June
Where: South Townsville Secret Beach

RSVP

Mundy Creek Working Bee

Join Coastal Dry Tropics Landcare for a special 3-hour session at the beautiful Mundy Creek site! Make the most of the cool weather for a free workout in the company of native wildlife and fellow nature-lovers.

When: 3 - 6pm Saturday 15th June
Where: Mundy Creek Landcare Site

LEARN MORE ABOUT MUNDY CREEK

ReefBlitz on now!

ReefBlitz is on from 1 - 8th June! ReefBlitz is a marine citizen science event to encourage people to observe and identify species from their area; particularly fish, sharks and rays, corals, molluscs and unusual species. All citizen science methods encouraged including iNaturalist, Eye on the Reef, CoralWatch, Reef Check surveys and more.

LEARN MORE

Art Prize

In celebration of 70 years of the Magnetic Island to Townsville Swim, the Townsville Open Water Swimming Association is holding a competition for artworks themed around this iconic event.

Entries close on Friday 14th June, and there are multiple prizes to be won!

LEARN MORE

NQCC UPDATES

General Meeting

Thank you to everyone who joined us for our recent General Meeting at our office! We enjoyed Dave's wood-fired pizzas, a fundraising raffle and updates. We even had Andrew Robinson (Division 8 Councillor) attend!

We shared out current campaigns, upcoming events and our 50th anniversary history project (sign up here)! Thank you to all who helped make the night a success.

Green Drinks

Want to meet like-minded people and catch up on the latest environmental goss? Join us for Green Drinks at Grill'd on the evening of Thursday 13th June! Keep an eye on your inbox and the Townsville Green Drinks Facebook group for updates. Don't forget to invite your friends!

Garage Sale!

Yep, NQCC is having a garage sale on Saturday 15th June! Find a new home for your unwanted belongings and help us raise some funds! We have been blown away by your generosity so far, with plenty of high quality donations pouring into our office. 

You can help by donating your unwanted goods by Thursday 13th June or by sharing the Facebook event with your friends!

OTHER OPPORTUNITIES

Energy Survey for Renters

Help Energetic Communities Association understand renters' knowledge of energy efficiency and any opportunities or disadvantages they see to the implementation of minimum standards for rental properties.

Your responses will be used anonymously for their campaign advocacy for improving the rights of renters.

COMPLETE THE SURVEY

Work with Mackay Conservation Group

The Mackay Conservation Group is looking for a Coordinator/Director, to lead a team of passionate staff and volunteers and ensure the region has a healthy natural environment valued, protected by the community. This is a great career opportunity, providing the right applicant with the chance to lead professional and impactful campaigning work in a nationally significant region.

APPLY OR SHARE

Volunteer with us!

Volunteers help us to achieve so much, and to continually punch above our weight! Volunteering with us can help you to build upon your skills, gain experience for your CV, meet like-minded people and make a meaningful difference to our organisation. 

Check out our volunteering opportunities at the link below, or contact us directly to see how you can help!

SEE OUR VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES

We work on the lands of the Wulgurukaba and Bindal Peoples, and acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of all North Queensland nations. First Nations sovereignty was never ceded. North Queensland always was and always will be Aboriginal land.