Dave Whitfield from EcoRadio on 4ZZZ interviews Sam from Reverse Garbage Queensland about their upcoming WornOUT Fashion Exhibition. Sam also takes Dave around the warehouse to explore how manufacturing waste materials can be repurposed for FASHION!
Category: Interviews
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Ross Garnaut defends RESET in the Cage
The Generator’s Geoff Ebbs puts Professor Ross Garnaut in the Cage to discuss his new book RESET. A blueprint for a green, socially just future for Australia.
Professor Garnaut, outlines the technology solutions he highlighted in his previous book Superpower, noting that the government’s current technology roadmap largely follows his lead. He discusses the value of clean hyrdrogen in building a clean manufacturing and export business.
In the second part of the interview Geoff and Ross discuss his economic measures to ensure that future growth is socially just. The Australian Income Security and the tax on wealth rather than income.
In this segment, the third part of the interview, Geoff asks Professor Garnaut about the differences between Green Growth and deGrowth, the reality of decoupling economic growth from environmental impact and whether we are creating a scientific dystopia in which wilderness is a theme park.
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Geoff and Erich in the Cage
Author of Your Life Your Planet, Geoff Ebbs, puts doctor and electric car owner, Erich Schulz, in the Cage for 26 minutes to get a handle on the role of electric cars in building a sustainable future.
This quick snippet shows Erich discussing the role of technological innovation in inspiring people to be sustainable. It is much better than telling them to live more gently on the planet by “pushing their bike up hill and eating mung beans”, he says.
Unkindly referred to as “two old needle-noses with grey, pony-tails arguing about mung beans and bike riding,” the encounter forms the basis of Tip 68 – Alternative Fuels and the experts page, Enter the Electroids.
Erich Schulz and Malcolm Mackenzie contributed to the discussions on energy and transport The full interview is also available online.
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Your Life Your Planet expert voices online
The forthcoming book, Your Life Your Planet, deals with sustainability in the home, looking at it through the lens of practical tips and fundamental change. It will be launched by Australian Geographic in February 2021.
The experts who provided the background for the book were interviewed by Geoff Ebbs on EcoRadio over the course of 2020. Wrapping up his contribution to EcoRadio for 2020 Geoff, summarised the philosophy of the book and played snips from a number of contributors.
One of those interviewed, was Erich Schulz. Watch Geoff and Erich in the Cage on YouTube.
Geoff interviews Erich about activism, consumerism and systemic change. Maya Krikke is remarkable for building a business around the traditional drink water kefir sold in returnable bottles.
Maya Krikke from MYK’s Kefir You can listen to that summary on The Generator SoundCloud channel.
He put this in the context of previous radio shows, The Generator and The Cage. One of the snips used to introduce the book was from an interview with Dick Smith on The Generator.
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Maya Krikke
Maya Krikke is the sole parent of a little boy and produces a probiotic drink called MYK’s Kefir using whole fruit.
A lot of people associated kefir with milk-based products but I use water kefir grains, that consume the glucose in sugar, and then I do a secondary ferment with fruit. I also have a processed-sugar-free range based on honey.Listen to the full interview
Part 1 of Geoff’s interview with Maya about the making of kefir and building the business Geoff and Maya discuss the challenge of reusing bottles hygeinically -
EcoRadio discusses deGrowth
Geoff Ebbs hosted EcoRadio on 4ZZZ yesterday, 26th Feb and took the opportunity to discuss the Circular Economy and an end to growth.
One of the items he put to air was an interview he had earlier recorded with Dick Smith. “… we know that we cannot continue to grow on a finite planet, but capitalism depends on growth, so it might all go bust. We might not be here to see the future, I’m sure some cockroach will be here and ready to start evolving again, but I am optimistic. I am a capitalist and I hope that some wonderful genius will come along and save us from ourselves.”
Dick Smith campaigned against endless growth Yes Dick reflects the dilemma we face as a civilisation. Interestingly, he knows more than most of us about the challenges of ending growth. He ran Australian Geographic as a xero-growth company for eight years. Listen to the last three minutes of the interview to hear him discuss that.