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Frogs, phytoplankton and toxic waste ... in The Cage

Dead frogs and phytoplankton

Geoff Ebbs /11 January, 2023

Geoff riffs on the frog deaths in the Royal National park, phytoplanktons and the need to Agitate, Educate and Organise. There is no video for the Cage this week but the Hi fidelity is now available on the Soundcloud platform Catch the full texti is on LinkedIn and blog at GeoffEbbs.com.

Rob Pekin with the food Connect Mill

Milling Native Grasses

Geoff Ebbs /23 August, 2022

Rob Pekin from the Food Connect Foundation discusses building a local stone mill to produce flour in Brisbane from local grain.

Wavy with Ginger at the Edible Exchange

Mt Tamborine Food Exchange

Geoff Ebbs /20 July, 2022

My Great Notion of the Week this week is the Mount Tamborine Edible Exchange shared by Wavy. It’s an honour system where people can bring food to the central roadside exchange and take food away. No money changes hands. They post pictures online so everyone knows what’s in the food exchange. There’s pictures and more Continue Reading →

Urban farm at Kelvin Grove

Geoff Ebbs /22 June, 2022

In this weeks show we are joined in the studio by Chris Fullon,Founder of Australian Urban Growers. We will talk about urban farming and the future of food security, we will also give you a tour of their set-up in Kelvin Grove State College College and the work that Jimmy Southwood is doing to ensure Continue Reading →

Guy Pearse author

Hollowing out the Liberals

Geoff Ebbs /25 May, 2022

The rise of the Green-Teal tide on the weekend speaks volumes about environmental politics.Geoff Ebbs reflects on the implications for the Liberals and the Greens The destruction of the Liberal Party by Scott Morrison has many dimensions including integrity, misogyny, gender wars, culture wars and climate wars. Both the Teal independents and the Greens benefited Continue Reading →

Grappling with forest management

Geoff Ebbs /9 February, 2022

Deforestation is a significant contributor to climate chaos, biodiversity loss and depletion of groundwater. It requires significant effort on a number of levels. There are global certification bodies that provide a form of policing, including the capacity to interrogate the source of timber products using a chain of custody, or record of the handling of Continue Reading →