After five years of supporting activists, artists and authors, volunteering for community radio, publications and websites, the Ebono Institute is narrowing its focus.
To enable this new focus, we will hand over existing sales activities to Thin Green Line , turn off the weekly radio, online and print news service run through TheGenerator.com.au , close down the radio show broadcast on Bay FM and hand new web development projects over to partner companies with similar skill sets.
From now on, we will concentrate on a small number of major projects and promoting existing publications. The latest advertisement for Cry Me a River is the first outcome of this new focus. Buying the book will help us fund work on the documentary due out next year.
The Generator will continue to operate as a media monitoring service and valuable repository of the best sustainability stories that have appeared in the Australian press since November 2005. Joe4Richmond.org will remain online pending the announcement of the 2010 Federal election.
I'd like to take this opportunity to thank you for your support over the years.
Steve Posselt's journey to the heart of Australia's water crisis is now in print.
A lifelong water engineer, Posselt has taken a first hand look at Australia's rivers and talks to the farmers, local council workers and mayors across three states to get an understanding of what's gone wrong.
His conclusions are simple and terrifying. Everyone from governments through environmentalists and most farmers have got it wrong. The solution is not to get more water into the rivers, but to allow the land to return to its natural role as an integral part of the water system.
As Di Morrissey wrote in the foreword to this powerful book, "Steve, I hear you and I cry too."
