Today on the program I am going to replay a report I did all the way back in 2021 when I went to Reverse Garbage Queensland (RGQ) and talked to Mei, the communications manager at the time, about how RGQ are saving useful material from going to landfill. https://reversegarbagequeensland.com.au/

For complete transparency, at the time of this interview (2021) I was not employed or volunteering with RGQ, since 2023 I have been employed however currently I am only a volunteer with RGQ. Reverse Garbage Queensland is also a 4ZZZ Subscriber Discount Outlet.

Saturday 23rd

• 09:00 - Barrambin Wildlife Watch/ Streetside Gathering/ Wild Art Experiment - Victoria Park
• 09:00 - 11:00 - Little Cabbage Tree Creek Bushcare Group Working Bee - Chermside Hills Reserve, 412 Trouts Road

Sunday 24th

• 07:00 - Taringa Community Gardening Bee - 9 Heroes Avenue, Toowong
• 08:00 - Ocean Crusaders Bremer River Clean Up - 1 Tiger St, Sadliers Crossing
• 08:00 - 10:00 - Joyner Bushcare Working Bee - 81 Byrnes Rd North, Whiteside
• 09:00 - 15:00 - Sustainable BNE Festival - Roma Street Parklands
• 14:00 - 16:30 - BirdLife Aus Bird Monitoring Workshop - Carricks Rd, Springbrook
• 15:00 - 17:00 - Desoto Place Bushcare Group Working Bee - Desoto Pl, Forest Lake

🔗 If you'd like to listen back to the episode, you can listen On Demand or the Podcast by going to https://4zzz.org.au/program/eco-radio

Today on the program we are going to be talking to Queensland Renewable Energy Council CEO Katie-Anne Mulder, we will be talking about renewable energy and the hopes of becoming 100% renewable by 2050.

Saturday 16th

• 08:30 - 10:30 - Community Planting Bushcare Native Food Forest - John Street Reserve, Rosewood
• 09:00 - 11:00 - Sheep Station Creek Conservation Park Working Bee - Tinney Rd, Upper Caboolture
• 09:00 - 12:00 - Norman Creek Paddle Against Plastic by N4C - Heath Park, East Brisbane
• 10:00 - Caring for Barrambin Day - Save Victoria Park - Herston
• 12:30 - 14:00 - Insects & Bioblitz - THECA - Chapel Hill

Sunday 17th

• 08:00 - 10:00 - Friends of Whites Hill Reserve Working Bee - Whites Hill Reserve
• 08:00 - 11:00 - Great Glossy Count walk + Carricks Creek Restoration Project - Carricks Rd, Springbrook
• 13:00 - Nakba Commemoration Rally - Queens Gardens, Brisbane CBD
• 14:30 - Kenmore South Bushcare Group - Aberfoyle St, Kenmore

🔗 If you'd like to listen back to the episode, you can listen On Demand or the Podcast by going to https://4zzz.org.au/program/eco-radio

Today on the program we are talking about what happened to the Global Sumud Flotilla, the flotilla was intercepted by Israel's Navy in international waters on their way to take aid to the people of Gaza. Included in the flotilla of activists were 6 Australians, we will be talking to Northern Rivers Friends of Palestine member, Jessica Mamone, about the Australians that went across and why it was important for them to risk the journey.

Friday 8th

• 08:00 - 10:00 - N4C Nursery Session - 66 Baron Street, Greenslopes

Saturday 9th

• 08:00 - 13:00 - Ocean Crusaders Bremer River Clean-up - Noel Kelly Drive, Goodna
• 08:00 - Growing Forward - Dutton Park Commons Farm Working Bee - 381 Gladstone Rd, Dutton Park
• 09:00 - 11:00 - Save Victoria Park Streetside Gathering - Cnr Gilchrist Ave and Herston Rd, Brisbane
• 14:30 - 17:30 - Barrambin Wild Art Experiment - Ibis Island, Barrambin (Victoria Park)
• 14:30 - Oxley Tree Planting - 21 Wilpowell St, Oxley

Sunday 10th

• 08:00 - 10:00 - Hilda St Bushcare Group Working Bee - Cnr Hilda and Devaney St, Corinda
• 08:30 - 10:30 - Caring For Your Creek Working Bee - 32 Sheep Camp Rd, Mount Crosby

Tuesday 12th

• 07:00 - 10:00 - Friends of Oxley Creek Common Tuesday Carers - Oxley Creek Common, Sherwood

🔗 If you'd like to listen back to the episode, you can listen On Demand or the Podcast by going to https://4zzz.org.au/program/eco-radio

Today on the program I will play a follow up interview with Joseph Ka’au, a customary chief of the Kaimari tribe and traditional landowner from Baimuru in the Purari Delta. Joseph is leading a campaign to protect his people's land from destruction by a LNG project there in Papua New Guinea. Almost 2 months ago we talked to Joseph but two weeks ago Joseph went to Adelaide to speak at the Santos annual general meeting.

https://chuffed.org/project/170447-purari-delta-communities-legal-assistance

Later in the show we talk to Mark Cashmore who is leading a citizen science project called Hollow Watch Australia (HWA). Mark has developed an app to help people log and monitor the different animals that frequent and use artificial nest boxes or natural hollows in our bush and backyards.

https://proofsafe.com.au/pages/nest_boxes_and_hollows

Friday 1st

• 08:00 - 10:00 - Wetland Weeders - Archerfield Wetlands, Durack

Saturday 2nd

• 07:00 - 09:00 - Crosby Road Bushcare Working Bee - Crosby Road Park, 150 Crosby Rd, Ascot
• 08:30 - For Wild Places - TRACTION Trail Action Clean Up - Scribbly Gums Conservation Area, Alexandra Hills
• 14:30 - 17:30 - Barrambin Wild Art Experiment - Ibis Island, Barrambin (Victoria Park)

Sunday 3rd

• 07:45 - 10:30 - Seven Hills Reserve - Bird Walk with Frank Coman - Latina Avenue Entrance near the boom gate. Seven Hills
• 08:00 - Hays Inlet Bushcare Working Bee - Silcock St, Clontarf
• 08:00 - Free Children's Gardening Workshop - Highgate Hill Community Orchard, 94 Hampstead Road
• 08:30 - Peace Park Arboretum Working Bee - 179 Matthew St, Rosewood

🔗 If you'd like to listen back to the episode, you can listen On Demand or the Podcast by going to https://4zzz.org.au/program/eco-radio

Today on the program we interview artist, Luke Cornish, about his prize winning entry into the Gallipoli art prize, which depicts the destruction of a commonwealth cemetery in Gaza where the graves of Australian soldiers were destroyed by the IDF.

https://www.gallipoliartprize.org.au/project/luke-cornish-no-rest-the-vandalism-of-deir-al-balah/

We also talk to Audrey Barucchi, Co-Founder & CEO of People For Nature, about an upcoming event at the food connect shed called Seeds of Hope - Community Get Together happening this Sunday 26th April 2026 - 2:00 pm 5:00 pm

https://events.humanitix.com/community-get-together-brisbane-april-2026

Friday 24th

• 15:00 - 18:00 - Growing Forward - Kurilpa Commons Working Bee & Potluck

Saturday 25th

• 09:00 - Gertrude Petty Place Bushcare Working Bee - 26 Mount Gravatt Outlook Dr
• 14:00 - Barrambin The Peoples Park - Ibisa Organising Collective - 36 Gilchrist Ave, Herston
• 14:00 - 17:00 - Come When You Can Bushcare Working Bee - Quandong St, Ashgrove

Sunday 26th

• 08:00 - 10:00 - Yoorala Street Community Garden Working Bee - 98 Yoorala Street, The Gap
• 08:00 - 13:00 - Ocean Crusaders Logan River Mouth Clean Up - 80 Ferry Road, Carbrook
• 08:30 - 11:00 - Burleigh Knoll Conservation Park Bushcare - Burleigh Knoll Conservation Park
• 09:00 - 12:00 - DCP Greenslopes Bushcare Working Bee - Nicholson Street, Greenslopes
• 14:00 - 17:00 - Seeds Of Hope - Community Get Together - Foodconnect Shed, Salisbury

🔗 If you'd like to listen back to the episode, you can listen On Demand or the Podcast by going to https://4zzz.org.au/program/eco-radio

Today on the program, Zack and Andy give a history of the Kanak people who are the Indigenous people to Kanaky/New Caledonia. They discuss their treatment by the French who colonised New Caledonia and how these damages still manifest today.

Friday 17th

• 17:30 - 18:45 - Life Inside a Hollow Nocturnal Survey - Benowa

Saturday 18th

• 7:00 - 9:00 - Kalinga Park Bushcare - Kalinga Park, Nundah
• 8:30 - 11:00 - Spring 2025 eDNA Results - Discover what’s Living in your Local Creek - IndigiScapes, Capalaba
• 11:00 - 17:00 - Free Kanaky Fundraiser Tattoo Flash Day - Thrillhouse Tattoo, Camp Hill
• 15:00 - 17:00 - Arnwood Place Bushcare - Arnwood Place, Annerley

Sunday 19th

• 8:00 - 10:00 - Friends of Bur’uda Hanlon Park Working Bee - Hanlon Park, Stones Corner
• 8:00 - 11:00 - April Working Bee - Clarina Street Park, Chapel Hill
• 8:30 - Peace Park Arboretum Working Bee - 179 Matthews Street, Rosewood

🔗 If you'd like to listen back to the episode, you can listen On Demand or the Podcast by going to https://4zzz.org.au/program/eco-radio

Today on the show I am going to play some old interviews I have done over the years, to begin with I will play you my first in the field report in which I took a beginners edible weeds class with David Diggles. David is an edible weed forager and runs tours in Brisbane. I joined one of his tours and found some interesting facts about the plants that pop up in sidewalk cracks.

In the second half of the show I will play an interview with fungal ecologist Dr Sapphire McMullan-Fisher. Dr McMullan-Fisher is a mycologist that is in the process of researching and writing a book exposing the elusive world of native mycelium and specifically the reciprocal nature that fungi has with the native plants in our bushland.

Dr Sapphire McMullan-Fisher and Roz Hart are in the finishing process of putting their book out for the public, but they still need your help. Head to https://fungi4land.com/help-us/ to find out more.

Saturday 11th

• 08:00 - Growing Forward Working Bee - Dutton Park Commons
• 08:30 - Highgate Hill Community Orchard Working Bee - 94 Hampstead Rd, Highgate Hill
• 15:00 - Stop The Olympic Land Grab (Save Barrambin) - 36 Gilchrist Ave, Herston

Sunday 12th

• 07:30 - 09:30 - Brandon Road Bushcare Group Working Bee - Winston Street, Runcorn
• 08:00 - 10:00 - Friends of Nerang National Park Working Bee - 75 Lawnhill Dr, Nerang
• 08:30 - Berrinba Wetland Reserve Bushcare Group Working Bee - Wayne Goss Dr, Browns Plains
• 08:30 - 10:30 - Kholo Creek Catchment Group Working Bee - Platypus Park, Banksia Drive, Mt Crosby

Monday 13th

• 18:30 - 19:30 - BrisScience: The house of a thousand species - The Edge, State Library of Queensland

🔗 If you'd like to listen back to the episode, you can listen On Demand or the Podcast by going to https://4zzz.org.au/program/eco-radio

Today on the show we are talking to members of “End Fossil Fuel Sponsorship”, a group that recently held a choir performance at the front of Queensland Museum. We are talking to two members of the group, Dianne Tucker and Lee Coaldrake, about how fossil fuel companies are influencing educational material at our museum. https://www.queenslandconservation.org.au/qld_museum_end_fossil_fuel_sponsorships

Thursday 2nd

• 14:00 - 16:00 - Seagrass monitoring at Currumbin Creek - 2 Thrower Drive, Currumbin

Saturday 4th

• 07:00 - 09:00 - Crosby Road Bushcare Working Bee - 150 Crosby Rd, Ascot
• 08:00 - 13:00 - Ocean Crusaders Bremer River Clean Up by City of Ipswich - Boat Ramp Cribb Park, North Ipswich
• 08:30 - 09:30 - Bowie's Flat Bushcare Working Bee - N4C - Bowie’s Flat Wetland, Coorporoo

Sunday 5th

• 06:00 - Taringa Community Gardening Bee - 9 Heroes Avenue, Toowong
• 07:00 - 09:00 - Anstead Bushland Reserve Working Bee - Hawkesbury Rd, Anstead
• 15:00 - Tarragindi Reserve Bushcare Working Bee - Laura St, Tarragindi

Tuesday 7th

• 10:00 - 14:00 - School Holiday Autumn Butterfly Activity Hub - Mount Coot-tha Botanic Gardens

🔗 If you'd like to listen back to the episode, you can listen On Demand or the Podcast by going to https://4zzz.org.au/program/eco-radio