“I was actually born in an aeroplane,” says Kabi Kabi Elder Aunty Beverly Hand, waving her arms through the air like a plane as we sit by a pot belly stove on a damp, misty morning in the forest near Mapleton.

Dalia Mikhael wears so many hats she could open a millinery shop, but she’d be too busy to run it.She is currently director of the Grass Roots Marketing Alliance, managing director of Noosa Environmental Education Hub and project officer for Zero Emissions Noosa, and that’s just the big ticket items. Dalia has spent many years designing and delivering “outdoors immersion” environmental programs that give life to the curriculum, while promoting Indigenous led, biodiversity discussion.

Students are learning about the ecosystems that make up the Noosa Biosphere thanks to a world-class environmental education hub.

The Noosa Environmental Education Hub (Noosa EE Hub) provides students with hands-on learning experiences by partnering with local environmental groups.

You can tell how serious the VanderAa brothers are about zero waste by looking at their YouTube clips or promotional photos – they wear their shirts until they fall off and then, well, they go shirtless.

But the fun-loving and frequently topless multi-instrumentalists, who have been taking the Sunny Coast by storm since arriving from Darwin a year ago, are also totally committed to helping the environment and making the world a better place.

Noosa’s environment has a new group of protectors in the Noosa Youth Advocacy Group formed by the Noosa Environmental Education Hub (Noosa EEHub).

Aimed at providing a platform for Noosa’s young people to present their views on community issues the group, represented by students from Good Shepherd Lutheran College, St Andrews Anglican College and Sunshine Beach State High School was officially launched on Wednesday at Noosa’s Community Environment and Sustainability Group Forum.

Deb Caruso meets some kids who are literally growing a micro business thanks to Slow Food Noosa’s School Garden Project.

In 2007, chef and then-President of Slow Food Noosa, Matt Golinski initiated the first School Garden Program, with funds allocated to schools to further children’s understanding of the value of fresh food and the joys of producing and using it.

Under the sublime skies of Noosa’s winter sun, students are learning that slow food, not fast food is the key to a healthy lifestyle.

Slow Food Noosa have partnered with the Noosa Environmental Education Hub (Noosa EEHub) to teach school children across the region how to grow easy and nutritious micro greens thanks to the expert advice of Sharon Koski from The Green Shed in Palmwoods.

Students from Cycle 3 (9-12 years old) at Noosa Montessori have been undertaking a unit of work on Social Justice. After exploring a range of works including Bruce Pascoe’s Young Dark Emu, the students are forming their own opinions on whether Australia was Terra Nullius when the British arrived, and whether the British did the right thing by establishing a colony at Port Jackson in 1788.

THEY are breaking new ground in the Noosa Biosphere with the successful propagation of a national-first environmental education hub.

The Noosa Biosphere Reserve Foundation helped kickstart this student-based integration of local indigenous knowledge of sustainability practices within the school curriculum.

The Noosa Biosphere Reserve Foundation (NBRF) has helped kickstart an innovative education experience that is inspiring school students to learn about the Noosa Biosphere.

The Noosa Environmental Education Hub (Noosa EEHub) received seed funding from the NBRF to pilot its nature-based programs that immerse young people in Noosa Biosphere Reserve education.

YEAR 9 students at Noosa District State High School are the first in the country to have fun with waterbugs, all for scientific purposes.

As part of their science curriculum, last week the group of students went to the creek near their school to see what all the buzz was about.