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My latest article is ‘The seat of our plants’ published in The Monthly in November 2023. Here’s the link.

It’s also released as a podcast on 7am’s The Weekend Read, 25 February 2024.

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My latest article - By the seat of our plants - was published by The Monthly in November 2023. It’s about street composting and local ecological activism driven by community leader Michael Mobbs and his love for water, compost and Earth.

It’s also a podcast - Jane Gleeson-White on why we need decay to save the planet - for ‘The Weekend Read’ on 7am in February 2024.

Here’s the opening:

Michael Mobbs has a big dream: “I want to end cafe and residential food waste in Chippendale by 2024.” An environmental lawyer turned water activist and street gardener, Mobbs is bringing change to the streets of the inner-Sydney suburb that has been his home since 1978. His activism ranges from writing a potent clause into a state water policy, to building a landmark inner-city sustainable house and developing a container that turns local food waste into soil in three to five weeks.

“If you want to bring change, you need follow-through and persistence,” he says. “You’ve got to stick to it. This ‘she’ll be right’ attitude is wrong. She will not be right.”