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Our Common Future

Chipping Norton Lakes

Greater Blue Mountains Area

Australian Conservation Foundation

Australian Forest League (NSW)

Cooks River Alliance

Environment Protection Authority

Office of Environment and Heritage

Kemp, Michael

Kiernan, Ian

Death at the Gasworks, from These Walls Have Ears: My Place 2013

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Environment and Sustainability

Our Common Future

United Nations sponsored report on the environment and sustainable development (1987) also known as the Brundtland Report

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Chipping Norton Lakes

Interconnected lakes on the Georges River at Chipping Norton which were created as part of a rehabilitation in the late 1970s after sandmining in the area had caused extensive damage. The lakes and surrounding parklands are managed by Liverpool City Council.

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Greater Blue Mountains Area

UNESCO world heritage area of 1.03 million hectares of sandstone plateaux, escarpments and gorges dominated by temperate eucalypt forest. It is noted for its representation of the evolutionary adaptation and diversification of the eucalypts in post-Gondwana isolation on the Australian continent.

Spread across eight adjacent conservation reserves, it constitutes one of the largest and most intact tracts of protected bushland in Australia. The eight reserves are: from the south, Thirlmere National Park; Nattai National Park; Kanangra Boyd National Park; Jenolan Karst Conservation Reserve; Blue Mountains National Park; Gardens of Stone National Park; Wollemi National Park and Yengo National Park.

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Australian Conservation Foundation

National conservation body established by Francis Ratcliffe from the scientific, political and public service domains.

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Australian Forest League (NSW)

New South Wales branch of forestry management and tree preservation association that was formed in May 1914. The national association was formed with representatives from each state's branch in Victoria November 1914.

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Cooks River Alliance

Organisation formed by eight councils to address the complex challenges of managing the Cooks River.

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Environment Protection Authority

Independent authority responsible for education, regulation and licensing of activities which impact the environmental health of the state.

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Office of Environment and Heritage

State government office which regulates industry, protects and conserves the environment, manages over 850 national parks and reserves and protects the natural, cultural and built heritage in New South Wales.

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Kemp, Michael

Local resident and environmentalist in the Hawkesbury area, whose family have lived in the region for several generations.

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Kiernan, Ian

Property developer and environmentalist who started the Clean Up campaign for people to clean and conserve their local environment.

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Death at the Gasworks, from These Walls Have Ears: My Place 2013

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This is a tale of three deaths at The Rocks and a silent killer. The backdrop is the city's first gasworks. A neighbour to houses and schools, the gasworks gave its power (and industrial pollution) back to its community, and keeps on giving today, long after its smokestacks stood tall. Produced by Jessica Minshall.

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FBi Radio's All the Best

[#1313 Posted April 27th 2013 (detail)]

(This piece was created for FBi Radio's All the Best, and made possible thanks to the Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority through the Rocks Windmill Project 2013.)

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