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.
There is a launch event at Griffith University’s EcoCentre on January 25th, and more information at #trek2reconnect or https://wildmountains.org
You can listen to the interview on Soundcloud
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.
Geoff Interviews Professor Sarah Pink about her latest book, Life at the Edge of the Future.
The premise is that we are always at the Edge of the Future, change is uncertain, unpredictable and so we cannot examine it as we examine the past. Instead, as an anthropologist Professor Pink describes herself as being in research. She says that the hope and trust that enables a positive future emerges from our everyday use of emerging technology, not from the technology itself.
The interview falls into four parts. Hope, Trust, Process and Inclusion.
A short version of the interview will be played on 4ZZZs EcoRadio, next Wednesday.
Click on individual tracks to focus on a specific part of the Interview.
Water, water everywhere, and not a drop to drink
Coleridge, The Ancient Mariner
Predictions that the Global North would cynically turn its back on Climate refugees as drought, heatwaves and floods decimate the population of the Global South this week appear both reasonable and prescient. As I write this in my comfortable home in the pleasant evening of an Australian spring with a belly full of warm soup, 30 million Pakistanis seek shelter from 35 degree heat and 66% humidity without roads, rooves, freshwater or sanitation. The thousand people who have died during 8 weeks of torrential down pour now confront thirst, starvation and disease and, those who survive, a daunting rebuilding operation that affects literally millions of devastated homes, and thousands of kilometres of road. In addition, a sizable fraction of the nation’s infrastructure has been torn asunder as glacial lakes burst out of their mountain strongholds and joined the petalitres of water that has fallen from eight separate monsoon events far into the northern regions of the Indus valley.
Read the rest at GeoffEbbs.com or hear it on SoundCloud
Rob Pekin from the Food Connect Foundation discusses building a local stone mill to produce flour in Brisbane from local grain.
Howard Whelan is an Antarctic Tour Guide and past editor of Australian Geographic. He put together this sound package with Geoff Ebbs over a number of shows.