Ceris Ash describes the background to the fight to end the free and uncapped extraction of groundwater from the Gondwana Rainforest and how the locals have approached the issue
Ceris Ash describes the current state of the fight to end the free and uncapped extraction of groundwater from the Gondwana Rainforest and how we can support locals address the issue
Wavy Beach interviews Martin Bannard about the Tamborine Mountain residents engagement with preventing the exploitation of Gondwana Rainforest water extraction on their side of the ridge.
Revel Pointon details the legal and scientific issues around preventing the free and uncapped extraction of groundwater from the Gondwana Rainforest
Rurkeys trash gardens to build their nesting mounds. They stop the cockroach infestations typical of subtropical cities though. There are ways to live together. #loganpalmscommunitygardens #communitygarden #urbanfood #ylyp #YourLifeYourPlanet
The magic of #compost. Take your kitchen scraps, #grassclippings and weeds and turn them into soil. Healthy #soil grows healthy plants producing healthy food to build healthy humans. Get composting. https://ylyp.au/compost-magic/
It's harvest time. Make sure it's you that gets the fruit of your labour, rather than the rot, rats or other furry and flying things. Pick early and pick often. Protect your crop, and don't leave old fruit on the plant or the ground. Go to https://ylyp.au for the detail
Baby it's hot out there. February is getting hotter and some plants just aren't geared to survive that heat. Especially young plants that have been grown in a nursery or shade house. This week Geoff talks about shade and water to help young plants survive the heat wave
There is too much of one thing at harvest time, so it pays to preserve it. This week Geoff, outlines the basics of #preserves fir #ylyp and #ecoradio. Details at https://ylyp.au/preserving-the-harvest/
This week Konstantin Kisin is subjected to the clear analysis of the Cage, stripping away the debating tricks to reveal the straw men, emotional red-herrings and out of context nuggets of truth that make this powerful mal-information.
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.
GeoffEbbs riffs on the frog deaths in the Royal National park, phytoplanktons and the need to Agitate, Educate and Organise.
Banook Balouch (Lady Balouch) joins Dave and Geoff on EcoRadio to discuss the protests in Iran and the plight of the Balouch people
High tech billionaire neo-natalists, incel mass shooters and conservative anti-feminists all fear the slippage of power, the failure of fertility, and the loss of control. Not that we should forget that men dominate and kill for gratification rather than political gain.
Geoff reflects on the edge of reality and the role of paranoia in survival and sanity. How does privacy become paranoia? Why are bullies so paranoid? How does paranoia spread?
We talk a lot about community and grassroots resilience in The Cage, but greedy individuals cut across the fabric of community destroying the fibre of resilience. Luckily, sometimes, the law does what it is supposed to. In addition to the handful of environmental wins in Australian courts, one greedy individual met his come-uppance big-time when he tried to prevent his neighbours using an easement.
Geoff pauses the #doomscrolling in #TheCage to remember the #hazydays of summer. "Two men look out between the bars, one sees mud, the other ... stars." The unspoken joys of nature, memories of childhood, of children of great acts of kindness and creativity.
Geoff checks in on State Violence against protestors, quoting Hannah Arendt that the state resorts to violence as it loses its grip on power. He reflects on the role of media and how we create our own media while avoiding the tech-feudalism of social media.
Geoff interviews Professor Sarah Pink about the work of the Emerging Technologies Lab at Monash University and how she finds hope and trust in the unpredictability of the future.
Geoff Interviews Sarah Pink about the implications of her research into how emerging technologies interface with everyday life and why she sees that as the locus of hope.