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GeoffEbbs

by Geoff Ebbs

Geoff Ebbs is a thinker, actor and writer. Since 2005, The Generator has provided content for a range of radio stations and shows including The Cross, Chime, Cage Live and EcoRadio. This Soundcloud account is the audio repository for those projects.Geoff is the author of best selling books including The Australian Internet book, Sydney's Guide to Saving the Planet and the forthcoming Your Life Your Planet.His long term concern for a sustainable economy and agriculture has led him to support a range of Green businesses and groups and hold a wide range of official positions in The Greens until late 2015. His business, Great Notion provides investment and srategic acvice to Social Entrepreneurs and Profit for Purpose organisations,

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  1. Background on Water extraction at Springbrook

    Ceris Ash describes the background to the fight to end the free and uncapped extraction of groundwater from the Gondwana Rainforest and how the locals have approached the issue

  2. Fighting Water extraction at Springbrook

    Ceris Ash describes the current state of the fight to end the free and uncapped extraction of groundwater from the Gondwana Rainforest and how we can support locals address the issue

  3. Water extraction at Tamborine Mountain

    Wavy Beach interviews Martin Bannard about the Tamborine Mountain residents engagement with preventing the exploitation of Gondwana Rainforest water extraction on their side of the ridge.

  4. The EDO Fights Water extraction at Springbrook

    Revel Pointon details the legal and scientific issues around preventing the free and uncapped extraction of groundwater from the Gondwana Rainforest

  5. Learning to live with the turkey

    Rurkeys trash gardens to build their nesting mounds. They stop the cockroach infestations typical of subtropical cities though. There are ways to live together. #loganpalmscommunitygardens #communitygarden #urbanfood #ylyp #YourLifeYourPlanet

  6. Composting Magic

    The magic of #compost. Take your kitchen scraps, #grassclippings and weeds and turn them into soil. Healthy #soil grows healthy plants producing healthy food to build healthy humans. Get composting. https://ylyp.au/compost-magic/

  7. Getting in the Harvest

    It's harvest time. Make sure it's you that gets the fruit of your labour, rather than the rot, rats or other furry and flying things. Pick early and pick often. Protect your crop, and don't leave old fruit on the plant or the ground. Go to https://ylyp.au for the detail

  8. Surviving the Heatwave

    Baby it's hot out there. February is getting hotter and some plants just aren't geared to survive that heat. Especially young plants that have been grown in a nursery or shade house. This week Geoff talks about shade and water to help young plants survive the heat wave

  9. Preserves (Songs of the Griots)

    There is too much of one thing at harvest time, so it pays to preserve it. This week Geoff, outlines the basics of #preserves fir #ylyp and #ecoradio. Details at https://ylyp.au/preserving-the-harvest/

  10. Konstantin Caged

    This week Konstantin Kisin is subjected to the clear analysis of the Cage, stripping away the debating tricks to reveal the straw men, emotional red-herrings and out of context nuggets of truth that make this powerful mal-information.

  11. Lizz Hills - Trek 2 Reconnect

    Lizz from Wild Mountains chats with Geoff, Dave and Issy about her 6,000km (is that 6Mm?) trek from the Border Ranges on the East Coust, to the Ningaloo Reef on the West Coast to connect communities to nature.

  12. Toxic human waste in The Cage

    GeoffEbbs riffs on the frog deaths in the Royal National park, phytoplanktons and the need to Agitate, Educate and Organise.

  13. Banook Balouch

    Banook Balouch (Lady Balouch) joins Dave and Geoff on EcoRadio to discuss the protests in Iran and the plight of the Balouch people

  14. The Patriarchy In The Cage

    High tech billionaire neo-natalists, incel mass shooters and conservative anti-feminists all fear the slippage of power, the failure of fertility, and the loss of control. Not that we should forget that men dominate and kill for gratification rather than political gain.

  15. Privacy and Paranoia in The Cage

    Geoff reflects on the edge of reality and the role of paranoia in survival and sanity. How does privacy become paranoia? Why are bullies so paranoid? How does paranoia spread?

  16. Greedy individuals face the law in The Cage

    We talk a lot about community and grassroots resilience in The Cage, but greedy individuals cut across the fabric of community destroying the fibre of resilience. Luckily, sometimes, the law does what it is supposed to. In addition to the handful of environmental wins in Australian courts, one...

  17. Summer in The Cage 14th December 2022

    Geoff pauses the #doomscrolling in #TheCage to remember the #hazydays of summer. "Two men look out between the bars, one sees mud, the other ... stars." The unspoken joys of nature, memories of childhood, of children of great acts of kindness and creativity.

  18. TheCage221207 - Violet Coco

    Geoff checks in on State Violence against protestors, quoting Hannah Arendt that the state resorts to violence as it loses its grip on power. He reflects on the role of media and how we create our own media while avoiding the tech-feudalism of social media.

  19. Relocating the Design of Emerging Technology

    Geoff interviews Professor Sarah Pink about the work of the Emerging Technologies Lab at Monash University and how she finds hope and trust in the unpredictability of the future.

  20. Hope and Hype in emerging tech

    Geoff Interviews Sarah Pink about the implications of her research into how emerging technologies interface with everyday life and why she sees that as the locus of hope.

  21. The Nature of Everyday Hope

    Geoff Interviews Sarah Pink about the implications of her research into how emerging technologies interface with everyday life and why she sees that as the locus of hope.

  22. The process of design

    Geoff Interviews Sarah Pink about the implications of her research into how emerging technologies interface with everyday life and why she sees that as the locus of hope.

  23. Desiging Inclusive Tech

    Geoff Interviews Sarah Pink about the implications of her research into how emerging technologies interface with everyday life and why she sees that as the locus of hope.

  24. The Last Tree: in The Cage 221130

    Geoff reflects on the history of the last tree and the implications for The Edge Of The Future and Deep Adaptation

  25. Property developers in The Cage

    Geoff is joined by number one daughter, Henrietta, who is cranky about property developers and the ninth law of Real Estate: Your housing development will be named after the feature it has destroyed. Geoff revives the fifteenth century lament: They hang the man and flog the woman who steal the...

  26. Seaslugs 2

    Dave joins in a survey of sea slugs around Rocky Shores at Burliegh Heads, counting and identifying sea slugs with Maggie Muurmans and other volunteers of Ocean Connect.

  27. Seaslugs 1

    Dave joins in a survey of sea slugs around Rocky Shores at Burliegh Heads, counting and identifying sea slugs with Maggie Muurmans and other volunteers of Ocean Connect.

  28. TheCage221116 Follow the Money

    Geoff follows up on last month's story on the role of gold in the US betrayal of West Papua. New evidence links the then CIA director, Allen Dulles, to the murder of the UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold. In other news, Musk's Martian Chronicles will not save humanity, but we guess you worked...

  29. Cage 9th November 2022

    This week, in The Cage, Geoff tackles the zoo. Despite the evolution of the institution over the last century human cruelty continues to shock and horrify. There is also the fine line between preserving and educating and vouyerism for entertainment

  30. Population in the Cage

    Geoff discusses population. Why politicians insist on having more babies but no-one wants to talk about reducing it.

  31. Moss pt1.

    Dave talks to collections manager of the Queensland Herbarium and Bryologist, Andrew Franks, all about moss.

  32. Moss pt2.

    Dave talks to collections manager of the Queensland Herbarium and Bryologist, Andrew Franks, all about moss.

  33. Moss pt3.

    Dave talks to collections manager of the Queensland Herbarium and Bryologist, Andrew Franks, all about moss.

  34. Billionaire Robots to Save Us

    This week’s episode of the Cage speculates on the value of Effective Altruism and the role of Artificial Intelligence in saving us from … Artificial Intelligence We have had a run of billionaires down here. Slumming it as they look for the next big thing. The CEO Sleepout think there’s a photo...

  35. Is That All There Is?

    Geoff reflects on the Iran Protests, colonisation and the role of First Nations people in recovering our humanity

  36. Iran protests October 15th

    Brisbane based Australian Iranians denounce the Islamic Republic and demand recognition of the revolution underway to overthrow it

  37. Cage221012

    Geoff reflects on the role of hope and resilience in the face of catastrophe. How can we build resilience in our communities as the fabric of society dissolves around us. The importance of building collective hope and resilience from doing the small things at home and sharing them with our...

  38. Cage220928

    From The Cage, Geoff reminds us of the role of money and the rise of wealth, writing and religion in creating the imperial view of extractive, exploitative growth

  39. Cage221005

    The statistics show that we have an embedded two speed economy that is invisible to the media and the policy makers. The problem is that the average wage is more than twice as high as the median wage. The basic misunderstanding of statistics hides the basic facts of life.

  40. Charles vs Charles

    Geoff Ebbs speaks from The Cage on the role of the British Royals in modern Australia and their relationship with our First Nation people

  41. Native Grain Eco - Radio Pt1

    Dave and Monique talk to native grain researcher and Gamilaraay man, Jacob Birch, all about the benefits of native grain foods.

  42. Native Grain Eco - Radio Pt2

    Dave and Monique talk to native grain researcher and Gamilaraay man, Jacob Birch, all about the benefits of native grain foods and the importance of grasslands.

  43. Rewilding World

    Geoff Ebbs outlines the gap between the fantasy and the reality of rewilding the landscape and the role of industrial agriculture in realising these dreams

  44. Next New Normal

    ... No matter how hard we wish that all those hungry people would just go away, and suddenly reduce the pressure on the global ecosystems (which after all only exist for our benefit), our wealth and wellbeing is built on their disadvantage. Without them we suddenly lose access to cheap clothing,...

  45. Dingoes return rejected

    EcoRadio News for Wednesday the 31st of August In this bulletin · Macron warning energises populists · ALP backs fossil fuels while claiming climate credentials · Dingoes return rejected by sheep farmers · Bravus doubles down in Adani versus Dad · Climate crisis combine to drown Pakistan You can...

  46. Macron End of Abundance

    EcoRadio News for Wednesday the 31st of August In this bulletin · Macron warning energises populists · ALP backs fossil fuels while claiming climate credentials · Dingoes return rejected by sheep farmers · Bravus doubles down in Adani versus Dad · Climate crisis combine to drown Pakistan You can...

  47. Climate Events Combine to Drown Pakistan

    EcoRadio News for Wednesday the 31st of August In this bulletin · Macron warning energises populists · ALP backs fossil fuels while claiming climate credentials · Dingoes return rejected by sheep farmers · Bravus doubles down in Adani versus Dad · Climate crisis combine to drown Pakistan You can...

  48. Local Milling

    Robe Peking from the Food Connect Shed discusses their local stone mill and working with indigenous farmers and bakers to produce commercial quantities of nutritious native grain

  49. Perrin Park Bat Colony Pt.1

    Perrin Park is a public area that is in the sights of the state government to become a vertical primary school. Unfortunately, this area is subjected to regular floods and the home to a colony of endangered grey-headed flying foxes. Listen to the story to find out more.

  50. Perrin Park Bat Colony Pt.2

    Perrin Park is a public area that is in the sights of the state government to become a vertical primary school. Unfortunately, this area is subjected to regular floods and the home to a colony of endangered grey-headed flying foxes. Listen to the story to find out more.

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

Geoff Ebbs is a thinker, actor and writer. Since 2005, The Generator has provided content for a range of radio stations and shows including The Cross, Chime, Cage Live and EcoRadio. This Soundcloud account is the audio repository for those projects.Geoff is the author of best selling books including The Australian Internet book, Sydney's Guide to Saving the Planet and the forthcoming Your Life Your Planet.His long term concern for a sustainable economy and agriculture has led him to support a range of Green businesses and groups and hold a wide range of official positions in The Greens until late 2015. His business, Great Notion provides investment and srategic acvice to Social Entrepreneurs and Profit for Purpose organisations,

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