Environment
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ClimateCam
ClimateCam is the world's first greenhouse gas speedometer. It provides an accurate measuring tool to track the greenhouse gas emissions for the City of Newcastle, New South Wales, AUSTRALIA.
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Tree management
Newcastle City Council considers trees to be significant capital assets. They are as much part of the community infrastructure as roads and footpaths.
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Coast & estuary
Estuaries are waterways that extend from the tidal limit downstream to the ocean. The Hunter River Estuary (Hunter Estuary) is one of the largest estuaries in NSW, extending some 75 kilometres in land from the ocean.
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Waterways & flooding
Water is constantly moving around the earth from clouds, to rain, into groundwater, streams, rivers and the oceans, through the food chain and even our bodies.
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Bushland & fire
A bushfire prone area is an area with the potential to support a bushfire or be subject to bushfire attack
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Storm safety
StormSafe Week is coming! 17th - 25th of September 2011. StormSafe Week announces the beginning of Storm Season which runs from October 2011 through till April 2012.
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Sustainable living
There are a number of ways to reduce your carbon footprint and your impact on the environment while at home, in the work place or during leisure time
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Environmental Planning
Council is responsible for undertaking, managing, supporting and regulating a wide range of activities that may impact upon Natural Resource Management.