About This Site

How it happened...

The idea for this site springs one day out of a too-busy Environment House volunteer's head. It introduces itself as Think Global: Act Local Government... Later that decade, this idea runs into an old acquaintance who is teaching computing at ECU and looking for real website projects for his final year students. Weeks later, news arrives that a team has formed to make it happen! It is clear from the first meeting in July 2005 that these students are aware that their work could make a difference!

News of the need for researchers filters out on little e-tendrils and questionnaires start arriving. At some stage along the way, the name morphs into How Green is my Council, 'Howgreen?' for short. Although the ECU students graduated in mid 2006, Dennis Tan is still providing technical support to the research team based at Environment House .

The research crew

The team has been a moveable feast over the years, but the crew that got things off the ground includes Brenda Conochie (who is delighted to see her old idea taking shape!), Nella di Marco & Simon Titley (Murdoch) Kristy Gamble & Star Eggleston (ECU) and environmental campaigners Susan Tillman, Neil Robertson, Helen Lynes, Annemarie Hindinger, Kate Boland, Rowena Skinner, Anna Nowicki, Ian Rudd, Maureen Gardner, and more. Katherine Pike, Nella di Marco, Kristy Gamble, Zane Hill and Purusha Boelling worked on the 2007 update, and Nicola Mincham & Nella di Marco (Murdoch) and Jo Bower have worked on it in 2009. Through it all our wonderful web-wallah Chuan/Dennis Tan has been been only a phone call away to guide us.