Together we are conserving our ecosystems, maintaining clean water, fighting pollution, and protecting our biodiversity – for a brighter greener future.

Environmental groups have called for an urgent rescue plan from land clearing, urban sprawl and roadkills, for the endangered Koala colonies of the Sydney Basin, at a meeting with Judith Hannan MP, President of the Parliamentary Friends of the Koalas.

For more than 5 decades, TEC has stood for one big idea: that nature and communities deserve a powerful voice. We’ve seen a lot of change, including positive change, but our purpose has remains constant, and we’ve never lost sight of why we fight. We protect the living systems we all depend on, champion the species we love, and work alongside people who believe a thriving environment is the foundation of a thriving future.

Now it’s time to make your voice heard. Use the resources below to take action, individually or with your local groups.

Remember: If you’ve already acted, thank you — your voice matters. 

Every additional action strengthens our collective voice. Visit our blog for links, templates, and guidance to make your feedback count.

Last week, I wrote to you about the Minns Government’s Planning Reform Bill — the most dangerous planning changes we’ve seen in decades.

If you’re already taking actions, thank you — your voice matters! 

Opposition is growing from concerned members of the community, environmental groups, corruption experts and criticism from Parliament’s Legislation Review Committee.  

There’s still more you can do. Every email, submission, and council contact strengthens our collective voice.

Here I break down 10 myths about the Bill, showing the reality behind each one and including ways you can take action, with draft emails, templates, and links.

The future success of Victoria’s Container Deposit Scheme hinges on improving transparency of return rates, increasing the refund to 20c, phasing out inconvenient refund points and including wine and spirit bottles, our newest report discovers.

Alongside the Total Environment Centre and the Sydney Basin Koala Network called for independent oversight of Transport NSW’s Koala management practices which are consistently falling short of their own published standards, contributing to record Koala road deaths in South West Sydney. 

Yesterday's meeting of state and federal Environment Ministers was in disarray as Queensland, under its new LNP government, refused to take part in any national action on the circular economy including to reduce the environmental and economic costs from wasteful packaging, PFAS and plastics.   

All cars have environmental impacts. Electric cars are certainly better for the planet than fossil burners. But some electric cars are better than others. That’s why Total Environment Centre has now created the Green Electric Car Guide.

Our investigation into voluntary battery recycling under the failing battery stewardship scheme, B-cycle, identified many free rider producers evading responsibility for battery waste, and B-cycle participants, more often than not, failing to promote the scheme to their consumers.

With Australia’s environment ministers meeting in a few days, peak groups representing Australia’s waste management and resource recovery industry and the environment movement have come together to demand urgent mandatory regulation of all end-of-life (EoL) batteries, which, under current practices, pose serious risks to the environment and resource recovery sectors.

50-plus years is a long time to be engaged in the battle to protect the environment that we all depend on and share with an incredible array of animals and plants. That’s how long TEC has been working and we tell our story in our just released and beautifully designed Impact Report.

Manly Cove, one of Sydney Harbour’s most iconic swimming spots, has been revealed to be a microplastic hotspot, highlighting a widespread issue impacting popular coastal areas. According to a long-running survey conducted by AUSMAP, a project of Total Environment Centre, swimmers here are immersed in a soup of plastic pollution.

Peabody, a global coal company, implicated in climate change denialism and dangerous practices, wants to mine under a key Sydney water catchment damaging endangered upland swamps and species.  You can help stop it.

You can find further information here. We have also included who to contact in the NSW government. 

A visionary plan to protect and expand Sydney’s green and blue spaces for present and future generations was released today, as a counterbalance to the growing population and push for denser development.

With 50% of species in NSW not expected to survive in the next 100 years; land clearing increasing since 2017; and only 29% of habitat remaining - the NSW Government should be taking urgent action. The release of the government’s 2024 NSW Biodiversity Outlook Report is one big alarm bell, both environmentally and politically. "The last thing the Minns government should find itself with at the next election is a record of more clearing of native vegetation and more species sliding to extinction.  This is a fundamental challenge they must not avoid,” said Jeff Angel, Director of the TEC.