What we do

Sustainable Coastlines provides ideas, coordination and support to communities to initiate, pursue and take ownership of local projects that will help improve their particular coastal environment.

We support such initiatives by working alongside local organisations, and providing:

1. •Fresh Perspectives   
   

2. •Information  
   

3. •Energy  
   

4. •Comparative analyses   
   

5. •Volunteers
   

6. •Funding  
   

7. •Awareness
   
   

Sustainable Coastlines co-ordinates and supports projects involving:

1. •Coastal Clean-up Operations  
   

2. •Recycling Systems Education  
   

3. •Sustainable Revenue Practices
   
   

The primary public benefit that is achieved through such efforts is a more sustainable environment. This benefits the whole community in terms of recreation, biodiversity, tourism and public health with a focus on education.

Our purpose

Coastal Clean-up operations

Our activities reduce the human impact on the environment primarily through the removal of non-biodegradable waste. Our coastal clean-up projects make much more than a visual difference to the coast: they create awareness of important environmental problems, involve local communities, and provide an inspiring and educational event.

Advancement of education

We provide education and ensure learning is passed on to others through organising events that develop participant’s understanding of our impact on the environment and ways in which we can reduce this impact so as to sustain this resource for future generations.

The educational component of our events is aimed to encompass all parts of the community however we particularly focus on schools with ideas, support and coordination of local initiatives.

Primarily our education component has been facilitated through recycling demonstrations, and providing constructive incentives as a reward for participation such as sporting equipment, trips to experience a marine reserve or other special ecosystem.

Education is also provided through interaction with the environment to increase understanding of the importance of conservation and sustainability.

Promoting Sustainable Revenue Practices 

We promote sustainable revenue practices, taking a holistic view of the environment. These are projects aimed at increasing the sustainability of community resources. We achieve this by providing such projects with:

1. •Comparative Analysis
   

2. •Volunteers
   

3. •Funding
   

4. •Consultation
   

5. •Events
   

An example of one such sustainable revenue practice is the activity of planting waterways to reduce farm nutrient run off, while enhancing the water quality that flows through streams and into the coastal environment.