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World Environment Day 2014

Her Campus Placeholder Avatar Jasmin Maastricht
This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at USC (AU) chapter.

Don’t miss out in the World Environment Day Festival at the University of Sunshine Coast on Sunday, June 8!

What? Sunshine Coast World Environment Day Festival
 
Where? University of the Sunshine Coast
 
When? Sunday June 8, 2014 
 
Time: 10am – 4pm
 
Visit the website at http://www.wed.org.au/
 
World Environment Day Mission: 
 
“Have fun while you learn something useful”
 
Overview:
 
Sunshine Coast Environment Council (SCEC) http://scec.org.au/ have managed the WED Festival since 1981. SCEC is the regions peak environmental advocacy group and an umbrella organisation representing over 45 community groups working on environmental protection.
 
General Information:
 
World Environment Day Festival is an annual event held on the Sunshine Coast to celebrate the environment and community. Started in 1979 and hosted by the Sunshine Coast Environment Council (SCEC), the festival has become one of the largest of its kind in Queensland. In 2012 the festival won the World Environment Day Challenge Award from the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP). Official partners include the Sunshine Coast Council, SEQ Catchments, University of the Sunshine Coast and Sunshine Coast TAFE. 
 
2014 will mark the 34th Sunshine Coast World Environment Day Festival on Sunday the 8th of June at the University of the Sunshine Coast.
 
You can also volunteer as well!

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Jasmin Maastricht is a third year Journalism student at USC, the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Her Campus chapter at USC, as well as being one of the 2013 USC Student Mentor's, freelancing for online publication WeekendNotes and interning for Australia's number one online fashion store, Fashionfile. Her passion is Journalism but besides that, Jasmin has always had a strong interest in fashion and entertainment, completing six weeks of work experience with Noosa 101.3fm Community Radio Station and has had the amazing opportunity of working with Australia's number one teenage lifestyle magazines, DOLLY in April 2011 and again in April 2013 and Girlfriend in February, 2013. She has also scored herself internships with the Sunshine Coast's local newspaper, the Sunshine Coast Daily and with Caboolture News. She has been working with both papers eight months now. She has previously worked with Darby Radcliff with the Her Campus Ole Miss chapter while on exchange in Mississippi as well as working with the M s Observer magazine and has never looked back. Email Jasmin at jasminmaastricht@hercampus.com for any questions or getting involved at Her Campus USC or contact her via social media. HCXO!