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It's not all pushing pollies and endangered species up hill! Working in the the environment offers the full range of intellectual entertainments - even fashionable moments like this...

The super cute Pygmy Possum is not the only native species spending a terrifying night in the rubble of its former home tonight - communities of four threatened species have met their demise this week at the hands of Berejiklian's bulldozers as they tear into precious bushland at Manly Vale Dam - is there nothing local bush lovers who have nurtured the bush for decades can do?

TEC will not stand by as Koala Mums and Cubs, currently flourishing in Sydney bushland, are mowed down by massive road proposals and urban development! Sign Up Today if you want to help Save Sydney's Koalas.

Wind and solar have ushered in "a construction-jobs-and-investment boom”, says a new report. What could possibly stall such ground-breaking progress?  

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian and Minister for Education Rob Stokes plan to sell-off the Hurlstone Farm at Glenfield to developers and turn our green hills into thousands of homes.

We have three days! Tree clearing in NSW is going to get more complicated, more destructive and impossible to reverse - yet the NSW Government is hellbent on introducing detrimental new laws this Friday 25th August.

Campbelltown koala lovers have been tracking the local koala community for over 30 years, determined to save the last healthy koala population in NSW. 

Sydney-siders traditionally protest loudly whenever their public green space is sold-off or alienated for development. Now a powerful network of community, planning and health organisations has called on the Premier of NSW to protect the lungs of our iconic city, led by Total Environment Centre.

Wondering whether solar energy will work for your family or small business? One day soon you could be running an energy station from your home! TEC has prepared a guide on battery storage to help you navigate the high noon ahead.  We are also working to make sure the National Electricity Market won't stand in the way of battery storage.

He may be Inconvenient, but perhaps the former US Vice President Al Gore could deliver a welcome pep talk to Malcom Turnbull before he heads home? In Australia to promote optimism as much as his new film, An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, Mr Gore says the solar energy revolution is already changing the world for the better.

A determined community has stayed the execution of cherished trees, because they are determined to stop the deforestation of their suburb - supported by our SOS Green Spaces campaign!

Sydney is becoming an urban planning disaster - virtually no new open space will be created to ameliorate the building of over 30,000 new homes in one of the biggest housing development programs in Sydney's inner West  – resulting in "major implications for present and future generations" says TEC's director, Jeff Angel.