GeoffEbbs
Arts & Culture Podcasts
Geoff Ebbs is a thinker, actor and writer. Since 2005, The Generator has provided content for a range of radio stations and shows including The Cross, Chime, Cage Live and EcoRadio. This Soundcloud account is the audio repository for those projects. Geoff is the author of best selling books including The Australian Internet book, Sydney's Guide to Saving the Planet and the forthcoming Your Life Your Planet. His long term concern for a sustainable economy and agriculture has led him to support a range of Green businesses and groups and hold a wide range of official positions in The Greens until late 2015. His business, Great Notion provides investment and srategic acvice to Social Entrepreneurs and Profit for Purpose organisations,
Location:
United States
Genres:
Arts & Culture Podcasts
Description:
Geoff Ebbs is a thinker, actor and writer. Since 2005, The Generator has provided content for a range of radio stations and shows including The Cross, Chime, Cage Live and EcoRadio. This Soundcloud account is the audio repository for those projects. Geoff is the author of best selling books including The Australian Internet book, Sydney's Guide to Saving the Planet and the forthcoming Your Life Your Planet. His long term concern for a sustainable economy and agriculture has led him to support a range of Green businesses and groups and hold a wide range of official positions in The Greens until late 2015. His business, Great Notion provides investment and srategic acvice to Social Entrepreneurs and Profit for Purpose organisations,
Language:
English
Website:
https://TheGenerator.news
Episodes
The EDO Fights Water extraction at Springbrook
6/30/2023
Revel Pointon details the legal and scientific issues around preventing the free and uncapped extraction of groundwater from the Gondwana Rainforest
Duration:00:10:12
Water extraction at Tamborine Mountain
6/30/2023
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.
Duration:00:08:56
Fighting Water extraction at Springbrook
6/30/2023
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
Duration:00:11:48
Background on Water extraction at Springbrook
6/30/2023
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
Duration:00:12:19
Learning to live with the turkey
3/26/2023
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
Duration:00:04:25
Composting Magic
3/19/2023
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/
Duration:00:03:45
Getting in the Harvest
3/12/2023
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
Duration:00:05:29
Surviving the Heatwave
3/12/2023
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
Duration:00:04:05
Preserves (Songs of the Griots)
3/12/2023
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/
Duration:00:04:00
Konstantin Caged
1/31/2023
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.
Duration:00:10:14
Lizz Hills - Trek 2 Reconnect
1/11/2023
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.
Duration:00:12:10
Toxic human waste in The Cage
1/11/2023
GeoffEbbs riffs on the frog deaths in the Royal National park, phytoplanktons and the need to Agitate, Educate and Organise.
Duration:00:05:42
Banook Balouch
1/3/2023
Banook Balouch (Lady Balouch) joins Dave and Geoff on EcoRadio to discuss the protests in Iran and the plight of the Balouch people
Duration:00:34:00
The Patriarchy In The Cage
1/3/2023
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.
Duration:00:06:33
Privacy and Paranoia in The Cage
12/27/2022
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?
Duration:00:07:13
Greedy individuals face the law in The Cage
12/19/2022
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.
Duration:00:07:05
Summer in The Cage 14th December 2022
12/12/2022
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.
Duration:00:06:07
TheCage221207 - Violet Coco
12/4/2022
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.
Duration:00:07:06
Relocating the Design of Emerging Technology
12/4/2022
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.
Duration:00:10:00
Desiging Inclusive Tech
12/1/2022
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.
Duration:00:03:22