Projects and Events

As part of our on-going efforts to promote HOPE’s Charter, we have undertaken to initiate projects, events and activities in our own right – and to support where possible, those efforts of our envNGO colleagues.

On these pages you will find a summary of our current and past projects, events and activities.

2025 carried-forward projects; and proposed 2026 projects, etc.

• 2025 carried-forward projects
  • Current:
    • Funding sought to publish a booklet of profiles and produce a series of podcasts on “male Environmental Champions of the Toowoomba region” 
    • Funding sought to purchase 2 laptops for Admin Support Team 
• 2026 projects
  • “Imagining 2040 ()- Pathways to Flourishing Futures” Podcast Project
    • Podcast Series Project – Householders’ Options to Protect the Environment Inc.
    • Continuing IMAGINING 2040: Pathways to Flourishing Futures podcast series – Householders’ Options to Protect the Environment Inc.
  • IMAG40 promotional films:
    • IMAG40 SHORT PROMO 1.5 mins HR
    • IMAG40 GENERIC PROMO 3.8 mins HR
    • IMAG40 VISUALISATIONS 6 mins HR

• 13/04/26 – ZOOM presentation of “Ecological Footprint – Steps Towards Sustainability” PPT
  Thanks to Fidelia, our volunteer researcher from Western Australia, for firstly refreshing the 2012 PowerPoint produced by Dr Andy Le Brocque of the University of Southern Queensland (UniSQ); and secondly for delivering the presentation via ZOOM on 13 April 2026.

• 31/05/26 – Completed ‘free’ drone flyovers of Coalbank Reserve and Myall Park Reserve for North East Downs (NED) Landcare

         Thanks to Michael Kula (Qld) for volunteering to undertake this exercise on our behalf.

• June 2026: University Student Placements program

At present, we have an existing relationship with the University of Southern Queensland (UniSQ) to accept a student placement via our Eco-Social Work initiative.

Our 1st student placement was Ms Jessica Nettle who prepared a research paper entitled on “Greenwashing and Education – What role does consumer education have in reducing susceptibility to greenwashing (Apr 2024)”.

The 2nd student placement was Ms Laura Little who prepared the “Research Report Into Eco-Social Justice in Australia (Aug 2025)”.

We are currently in discussion with UniSQ to recruit a student to research “the development of a Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP)”.

Now, thanks to our President’s outreach to universities throughout Australia, we have been offered student placement opportunities from the following 3 universities:

• Work Integrated Learning (WIL) programs with the:
  • University of the Sunshine Coast (UniSC)
  • University of Western Sydney
• Master of Sustainability “Capstone Research Project” with the University of Sydney

In coming weeks, we hope to finalise registration to all programs as noted above.