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  • Ebono and Get Up make winning team

    Giovanni Ebono is a broadcaster and activist. He believes that online networks are a critical component in shaping a new, more representative democracy. He actively used the web, and multimedia to run his election campaign for the seat of Richmond in the last federal election. That campaign resulted in a significant swing towards the Greens, Richmond is now the sixth Greenest seat in the nation.

    You can view the remnants of that effort at the campaign website. As well as providing all media services online, he provided a range of resources for supporters and campaign workers and promoted them in print, on air and via  email networks.

     

     Catch Giovanni at work on credit card debt

    Ebono is currently completing work on the Wiley Publishing title World Poverty For Dummies and is actively involved in a number of campaigns to do with global economic justice. During the federal election Ebono promoted and drove domestic economic justice issues, pre-empting the mainstream media on a number of occasions. One of our regular media stunts was specifically on the topic of regulating personal credit and unscrupulous operators.

    He’s a publisher, broadcaster and producer with a background in publishing business and management titles. He’s also operated his own business for ten of the last twenty years and employed up to ten people. He’s actively involved in developing policy at the federal level with the NSW Greens.

    Ebono’s background is as a magazine editor at Australian Consolidated Press for seven years. He left to start a television show and online publishing company, delivered online content management systems to a range of publishers and industry associations and have since worked as a book publisher and editor. He uses digital techniques to produce a weekly radio show, online newsfeed with regular web based video and podcasts.

    Ebono has been living on the North Coast of NSW for four years, learning radio and sharpening up his public speaking and comedy skills. Now he’s moved back to Sydney, and seeks a role that integrates his passion for politics, broad general knowledge and range of media experience.

    He said, "I’m excited at the opportunity to work with Get Up. You are shaping the future of democracy and I would be honoured, excited and happy to be a part of the team."

    Download the application letter and resume .

  • Chinese Rivers Run Red

    Two hundred thousand Chinese in Hubei, Central China, were without water for the last week of February thanks to a toxic spill from an unknown source. The water in the river turned red and bubbly, due to high levels of permanganate, ammonia and other nitrates. Towns without emergency water supplies had to rely on bottled water, schools and businesses were shut. Irraigation gates were closed to isolate the spill and water from a nearby lake used to dilute the toxins. Major pollution events occur with nightmarish regularity on Chinese rivers. The same river was closed last September due to a spill from a nearby paper factory.

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  • Banning bad bio-fuels good for renewables

    The European Union has announced regulation banning bio-fuels grown on high conservation lands. The law has been established to protect tropical rainforest that is underthreat from soya bean and palm oil plantations. Both crops have become considerably more lucrative with the increased demand for bio-diesel as a result of rising oil prices. Some European bio-diesel companies have complained that the regulations will slow the fight against global warming which partly relies on the adoption of bio-fuels. The World Watch Institute published a statement on February 28th refuting this argument. “The only way forward is to keep working on sustainability standards, measurements and labelling,” the statement said.

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  • Scientists find sweat gene in plants

    One of the world’s most primitive plants has yielded the secret of how plants open and close the pores in their leaves, known as stomata. Finnish scientists have discovered the gene that controls the mechanism and are now working on ways of stimulating it. Drought resistant plants, such as many endemic Australian species, can close their stomata in hot and dry weather, reducing evaporation to survive drought. Some scientists plan to use the knowledge to genetically engineer drought resistant food crops.

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  • Tide power makes waves

    The United States changed regulations last December to speed up the approval of wave and tide power generators. Many environmental groups are concerned about the impact on wildlife in the estuaries where the rush of new plants using different approaches are to be built. Projects involving dams are specifically excluded. Hydro-kinetic companies hope to supply as much as ten per cent of the United States electricity.

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  • Blood diamond’s day in court

    A Crimes Against Humanity hearing in the Hague heard in February that 75,000 people have died and up to one million had their hands amputated in Sierra Leone and Liberia, in a quest to control the diamond trade. Millions of land mines have been spread across the region to prevent ordinary people getting the diamonds, then children have been used to clear the mine-fields. The story has had limited media coverage, despite being the subject of a film, Blood Diamonds, starring Leonardo DiCaprio. The dictator of Liberia, Charles Taylor, is in court, but neighbouing governments, Western arms manufacturers and diamond cartel, de Beers, who have been implicated in the tragedy have, apparently, broken no laws.

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