Week starting Saturday 4th Dec

Geoff Ebbs /1 December, 2021

Saturday 04/12/21 08:00-10:00 Lugg st bushcare Working Bee – Lugg St, Bardon 08:30-11:00 – Mackenzie Bushcare Group Working Bee – Mt Petrie Road Reserve, Mackenzie 14:00-17:00 – Moorhen Flats Freecs Working Bee – 106 A Deshon St, Woolloongabba 15:00-17:30 – Working Bee Arnwood Place Bushcare Group – Bank of Sandy Creek beside bikeway, Annerley Sunday Continue Reading →

Blue SKy bottle

Bluesky greenwashes 7 million bottles

Geoff Ebbs /1 December, 2021

Local drink manufacturer, Blue Sky Beverages, will launch a campaign at midday tomorrow claiming to replace single use plastic bottles with 3D printed, aluminium ones. BlueSky founder, Matt Isles, said the facility is designed to print seven million bottles each year.Where the press release refers to 3D printed bottles it actually means the label is Continue Reading →

Elbridge Colby in Taiwan

Australia coerced into war in Asia

Geoff Ebbs /1 December, 2021

Australia is being coerced into war with China over Taiwan by US strategists, Nury Vittachi writes in Pearls and Irritations this morning. ANU Professor of strategic studies, Hugh White, wrote in the Australian last week that there is a much greater advantage for Australia to live in a Chinese-dominated Asia than to join a US Continue Reading →

Between the Stories

Geoff Ebbs /26 November, 2021

“We are human only in contact, and conviviality, with what is not human.” David Abram Leading voices of Australia’s First Peoples and North American cultural ecologist David Abram explore our place in the more-than-human world Mon 6th Dec • Wed 8th Dec • Fri 10th Dec  12.30-2.30pm AEDT (UTC+11)* on Zoom This series of three yarning Continue Reading →

Dr John Dwyer

Landcare groups adapt to climate change

Geoff Ebbs /18 November, 2021

The long held principle of bush regeneration is that “local is best.” The idea is that restoring the plant communities that existed in an area before the European invasion is the best way to “return” to a stable, natural environment and re-establish biodiversity to support animals and other plants endemic to the area. That may Continue Reading →

Kira and Dave in Studio 1 at 4zzzfm

Week ending 21st November 2021

Geoff Ebbs /17 November, 2021

Friday 19-11 08:30-11:00 Mackenzie Bushcare Group Working Bee – Mt Petrie Road Reserve, Mackenzie Saturday 20-11 06:30-08:30 Weeding the creek – Pennywort Creek Bushcare Group, Pratten st Corinda 08:00-10:00 – Stellar Carrington Habitat Group Working Bee – Ian Page Park, 61 Cloverbrook Place, Carina 15:00-17:30 – bushcare Working Bee – Arnwood Place – off Ekibin Continue Reading →