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[email protected] [email protected] http://www.echo.net.au EÊ VOLUME 21 #26 i>ÕÌÞ TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2006 22,300 copies every week «>}iÊÓÓ $1 at newsagents only IF IT BODE ILL FOR JACK SPARROW... Superdisco aims Forget snakes on a plane, for carbon neutral it’s irony on a train Story & photo Lou Beaumont Jonathon said, ‘My current goal Jonathon Russell, aka DJ Rock is to make Superdisco a carbon Hardson, aka DJ Rock Solid, is neutral event as quickly as possible. starting something that will hope- But the new trees are just the begin- fully see his New Years Day event ning. From there, I hope to expand Electric Sunshine Superdisco (for- this concept to the event as a whole, merly Super Freaky Kinky) become as they have done at Peats Ridge a carbon neutral event. Festival, by introducing sustainable In partnership with Brunswick energy options and eco-friendly Valley Landcare, and with the sup- suppliers. port of Byron Shire Council and ‘I hope to make our event fi t in the Mullumbimby Leagues Club, with the local community as much as the Superdisco is funding the plant- possible by minimising our social and ing of 200 trees along the banks of environmental impact. The riverbank the Brunswick River bordering the planting helps with the latter Leagues Club. continued on page 4 Tweed National Party candidate for the seat of Tweed, and Karin Kolbe, President of Trains On Our Tracks (TOOT) at the unused Byron Bay railway station.