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Author: Geoff Ebbs

  • Keep Feb 12th free for a Revival, Launch & Festival

    Join the launch of Geoff Ebbs’ new book, Your Life Your Planet at 10:30am AEST (9:30 Qld time) on Friday 12th February. Register now for the free Sustainable Living Festival event at Humanitix.

    The 12th February event is part of the Sustainable Living Festival.

    Released through Australian Geographic and Woodslane Press, the book features practical tips on surviving in a post-carbon, post-CoViD world.

    The event will be a revival of Geoff’s popular radio show, The Generator. Contributors to the half hour show will discuss food preparation, art to raise awareness and government fudging of climate figures.

    Griffith University will physically host the show from the Colin Makerras room. You will get a personal invitation if you are a Generator listener, Australian Geographic reader, Griffith staff, student or alumnus.

    The book is available through this website as an eBook or as an autographed paperback with a personal message from the author. Pre-order now and receive copies at the same time as the bookshops.

  • Community startup: Gold Coast Tool Library

    David Paynter is the founder of the Gold Coast Tool Library. He passionately wants to reduce waste and transition our cities to a more sustainable way of living. “So many of the products we buy are made to be disposable. That frustrates the hell out of me.

    Oneika Polke, David Paynter and Susan Murray of the Gold Coast Tool Library
    Oneika Polke, David Paynter and Susan Murray of the Gold Coast Tool Library

    The tip is full of items being trashed that we can recover and share. Do we need to, or even want to, own all these items we rarely use?

    “That attitude inspired me to establish The Gold Coast Tool Library and it was incorporated in 2019. Our small but passionate volunteer team are in the start-up phase, building systems and processes, recruiting volunteers and collecting donations.

  • Signings finish Feb 12th

    Early copies of Your Life Your Planet have been delivered. The autographed copies … , well, they are still being autographed.

    Buy your copy now. Put a little extra in my pocket. ;->

    Your Life Your Planet - paperback
    Buy an autographed copy with a personal message $39.99 plus postage

    Personal messages close on Monday 12th. I will sign copies on the way out the door until the launch.

    Message with autograph
  • facebook bans Journal Neo article critiquing Vatican

    facebook bans Journal Neo article critiquing Vatican

    An article titled, The Dangerous alliance between the Rothschilds and the Vatican has been banned by facebook for not meeting community standards.

    Lyn Forester de Rothschilds is a key player in the
    Council for Inclusive Capitalism with the Vatican.

    The article outlines a key alliance between the world’s richest people and the Vatican to create an “inclusive” capitalism that protects the poor and the planet in line with Pope Francis recent dictates.

    It criticises the alliance on a number of levels, primarily for the manner in which global agendas have a habit of entrenching power elites in the name of doing good. It compare Pope Francis global agenda with the twelfth century Crusades and highlights connections between, Lyn Forester de Rothschilds, Jeffrey Epstein and the Clintons.

    While Neo Journal’s approach concentrates on these seedy connections and the shadowy reputation of some activities by these global philanthropists, The Generator has concentrated on specific problems – such as the concentration of resources in the Doomsday Project, the arbitrary harshness of Modi’s cashless India, and the underlying role of the very small number of people who actually direct the world’s financial systems.

    Regular followers of The Generator know that we are rigorous about checking and providing sources and debunking conspiracy theories. That has occasionally put us at odds with facebook – https://thegenerator.news/china-shuts-the-door-on-facebook/ and https://thegenerator.news/soul-sex-facebook-saga-continues/ but has stood us in good stead when reporting controversial issues.

  • 69 – Power tools

    Chain saws, hedge trimmers, lawn mowers and vacuum cleaners consume energy, make noise but do the job. Use them sparingly, preferring manual tools instead. When you really need them, get them from a tool library.

    As discussed on the Generator many times since 2006

    Check out the 2006 article on The Generator

    Appliances to make our morning coffee or warm our feet before bed proliferate. We fork out another hundred hard-earned dollars so the latest gizmo can save us one and a half minutes of unnecessary effort, which we spend on our derrieres complaining that we don’t get enough exercise.

    Leaf blowers cross the line. Pick up a broom and move those lawn clippings along. Get real, good planetary citizens. Let the Zen calm of sweeping transport you into the zone enjoyed only by the universe’s best sweeper, you.

  • Professor Alice Payne: Design researcher

    Associate Professor in Fashion at the School of Design at QUT, Prof. Payne writes and researches about innovation that reduces waste in fashion.


    “The main problem is that fashion has encouraged us to consume so much. In earlier times, fabric was considered valuable and every scrap, literally, was treasured.

    “There are different approaches
    that address this:

    1. Design out waste
    2. Design with waste
    3. Dematerialise.

    You can see the full entry in Your Life Your Planet or find out more about Professor Payne’s research at Q.U.T.

    See also Tenfingerz entry