North West
Environment Centre

Written by Michael Harries President of the North West Environment Centre (NWEC) Tasmania is regarded as one of the very few countries, or in our case states, that generates 100% of its electricity through renewables. Not quite true as we have a gas fired power station but let’s park that problem for now. To achieve 100% renewables all but one of Tasmania’s great rivers and several smaller rivers had to be dammed. Add to that many hundreds of kilometers of high transmission l

"Just as lovers seek union, we are apt, when we fall in love with our world, to fall into oneness with it as well. We begin to see the world as belonging to us as intimately as our own bodies.“ Joanna Macy Every Sunday at 5pm, I start a zoom meeting without knowing who will join me for an hour to fall in love with world over and over again... Since 2020, the mailing list has grown to 125 people from Tasmania and other states and even a few from other countries. Usually 4

Personal sustainability and inner transition/growth can be seen as our greatest lever of change towards human surviving and thriving, that is, towards economic, social and environmental sustainability.

Sustainability Matters What's on June 2026