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!
Author: Dave Whitfield
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Bushcare Round up – 16/07/22
Banksia flower in full bloom Saturday
08:00-10:00 – Bushcare Working bee – Ian Page Park, 61 Cloverbrook Place, Carina
15:00-17:00 – Yeronga Bushcare July Working Bee – The Corso (intersection of Brisbane Corso & Otaki Rd)
Sunday
08:00-10:00 – Bushcare Working Bee – Whites Hill Reserve
08:00-10:00 – Community bushcare bee – Yimbun Park – corner of Malbon and Monthar st, eight mile plains
08:00-10:30 – Harman’s Reserve working bee – 34 Wood Street Manly
09:00-11:00 – Wittonga Park Bushcare Working Bee – Wittonga Park, The Gap
13:00-17:00 – Growing Forward Garden Working Bee and Potluck – Raymond Park, on the corner of Baines St and Wellington Rd in Kangaroo Point.
14:30-16:30 – Bushcare and Beer – Oxley Creek Common with a free beer provided at Helios Brewery
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Bushcare Round-Up 30th April – 1st May
Landcare
Not actually Brisbane! – Flood damage on the Dumaresq Saturday – 30th
14:00-17:00 – Bushcare Working Bee – End of Sunshine Ave, Tarragindi
Sunday – 1st
07:30-09:30 – BUSHCARE AT LITTLE GUBBERLEY CREEK – Katunga Street Park Site, Kenmore
08:00 – Crosby Road Bushcare working bee – Crosby Rd Park, Bartley’s Hill Reservoir in Hamilton
08:30-10:30 – Bennetts Bush Defenders Working Bee – Bennett’s Bushland Park, Norman Park
08:30-10:30 – Platypus Park working bee – Platypus Park, Banksia Drive, Mount Crosby
09:00-12:00 – Mt Coot-tha Bushcare – Sir Samuel Griffith Dve Mt Cootha
09:00-11:00 – Bushcare on Taringa Parade (Moore Park) – Shelter Shed opp. no 35 Taringa Parade, Indooroopilly
Ocean Crusader Clean-up teams
The ocean crusaders will take volunteers out in boats or canoes to clean up the river and mangrove flats, but people must get free tickets and RSVP, links below.
Saturday
08:00-13:00 – Cabbage Tree Creek – Hardcore Cleaning Team · 65 Sinbad St,Shorncliffe https://www.facebook.com/events/925764308151478/?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A[%7B%22surface%22%3A%22page%22%7D]%7D
Sunday
08:00-11:00 – Caboolture River Paddle Against Plastic by Healthy Land & Water – Burpengary Boat Ramp
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Smart Urban Water interviews
On today’s EcoRadio, Dave Whitfield interviewed Dr Aysin Dedkorkut-Howes about her work in Urban Water Management.
Dr Aysin Dedekorkut-Howes is a Senior Lecturer of Urban and Environmental Planning at the Griffith School of Engineering and Built Environment and a member of the Cities Research Institute.
Her current research focuses on climate change adaptation and urban/disaster resilience, water resource management, and urbanisation in subtropical areas and coastal cities.The first part of the three part interview The other two parts and many other EcoRadio interviews are available in the playlist.
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Week ending 14th November 2021
David Whitfield in the field Saturday 13th November
08:00-11:00 – Glindemann Park Working bee – Glindemann Park, Holland Park
14:00-17:00 – Bushcare Working Bee – Arnwood Place – Annerley
15:30-17:30 – November Bush Care Working Bee – Lagonda Park Bushcare – Annerley
Sunday 14th November
07:30-10:30 – Bushcare Working Bee – Planting Day! – Akuna St, Kenmore
07:30-09:30 – Sweeney Reserve Koala Bushcare – Houghton St, Petrie
08:00 Hilda Street Bushcare Working Bee – Horace Window Reserve – Sherwood
09:00 – Sovereignty Garden Working Bee – Deebing Creek Sovereign site – 144 Grampian Dr, Deebing Heights
14:30 Growing Forward Working Bee and Pot Luck – 158 Wellington Rd – East Brisbane
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Miner uses tax dollars to fund exploration
The Beetaloo Basin covers a significant area of the Northern Territory The Guardian is reporting that the federal government gave a $5 million dollar tax incentive to a gas company exploring the Beetaloo Basin using a scheme that specifically prohibits “prospecting, exploring or drilling activities”.
The money was awarded to Empire Energy through the commonwealth’s R&D tax incentive scheme, which is designed to encourage industry to conduct research and development that may not otherwise have been conducted.
The scheme does allow for money to be given to companies that are drilling for the dominant purpose of research and development. However, Empire was given the money for its work at a specific well in the Beetaloo Basin, that the company describes as an “exploration well”
Empire have stated that the drilling is for research and development and the government department in charge says that the scheme requirements are self-assessed by the recipient.