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Author Archives: Michael Mobbs

Michael Mobbs is a sustainability coach who works with developers, governments and communities to design and obtain approvals for houses, units and subdivisions.

Posted inSpinifex

Gutters, downpipes and drains speak the truth about local councils

by Michael Mobbs 17 May 202217 May 2022
Footpath Garden
Posted inClimate Change

Footpath gardens can prevent climate collapse

by Michael Mobbs 28 April 20225 May 2022
Posted inClimate Change

Gardening for ourselves and Earth

by Michael Mobbs 2 December 202017 December 2020
close up of children drinking water from water train
Posted inSpinifex

Time for a new broom, new pricing and law-abiding tribunal at Sydney Water

by Michael Mobbs 17 November 20207 December 2020
birds drinking from puddle
Posted inArticles

Rain is our lifeblood; let’s stop treating it as wastewater

by Michael Mobbs 28 January 202029 January 2020
Michael Mobbs with his waste bins
Posted inSpinifex

Michael Mobbs won’t pay his council rates for waste

by Michael Mobbs 6 November 201919 November 2019
Posted inSpinifex

Food for thought

by Michael Mobbs 10 October 201911 October 2019
Sunlight bursts through a tree on the edge of lake Illawarra, Wollongong, Australia
Posted inEnvironment

Uprooting urban tree myths in the climate emergency

by Michael Mobbs 5 September 20195 October 2019
kid jumping in puddle raining
Posted inEnvironment

How to cool our cities and farms – and Earth

by Michael Mobbs 18 April 20195 October 2019
How designers are ignoring climate with their concrete, glass and steel
Posted inArchitecture

How designers are ignoring climate with their concrete, glass and steel

by Michael Mobbs 18 December 20185 October 2019
dead sunflower
Posted inBusiness

Dark corners in the Australian solar industry, where the sun doesn’t shine

by Michael Mobbs 31 August 20185 October 2019
Posted inClimate Change

When the rains stop

by Michael Mobbs 19 June 20185 October 2019
Posted inEnvironment

Mobbs on checking out and heading to the beach

by Michael Mobbs 10 May 20185 October 2019
drop of water
Posted inEnvironment, Spinifex

The power of water to cool the Earth is bigger than we think

by Michael Mobbs 7 November 20175 October 2019
Posted inClimate Change

Bathurst Burr: How to avoid “peak smug” and reduce Earth’s pollution 

by Michael Mobbs 6 July 20175 October 2019
Posted inSpinifex

Bathurst Burr: The tragedy of wasted water

by Michael Mobbs 4 May 20175 October 2019
Posted inSpinifex

Bathurst Burr: Bucking the black roads addiction

by Michael Mobbs 1 November 20164 November 2016
Posted inInfrastructure & transport

Bathurst Burr: Our lost opportunity with stormwater

by Michael Mobbs 21 April 201621 April 2016
Posted inSpinifex

Bathurst Burr: Mobbs’ magnum opus on sustainable councils and development

by Michael Mobbs 21 January 201621 January 2016
Posted inSpinifex

Bathurst Burr: What it costs to go off-grid (and go on heart)

by Michael Mobbs 30 September 2015
Posted inSpinifex

Favourites: Michael Mobbs on how to get off the grid

by Michael Mobbs 30 July 201525 January 2017
Posted inSpinifex

Favourites: Michael Mobbs: Disconnected Part 2 – The sun and me

by Michael Mobbs 21 April 20158 November 2016
Posted inEnergy, Spinifex

Bathurst Burr (AKA Michael Mobbs): … Disconnected…but not to plan

by Michael Mobbs 13 April 201521 April 2015
Posted inSpinifex

Bathurst Burr: Whose poo is it, anyway?

by Michael Mobbs 28 October 201430 October 2014
Posted inSpinifex

Bathurst Burr: On why there is no “try”, just “do or do not”

by Michael Mobbs 9 October 201410 October 2014
Posted inSpinifex

Bathurst Burr: The affluence that is killing our future

by Michael Mobbs 20 May 201426 August 2014
Posted inArts and Letters

Bathurst Burr: Bruce Pascoe – an ordinary man, but not

by Michael Mobbs 28 April 201426 August 2014
Posted inSpinifex

Bathurst Burr: when self-deception is a standard condition

by Michael Mobbs 25 February 2014
Posted inSpinifex

Bathurst Burr: let’s march out of step

by Michael Mobbs 22 January 2014
Posted inArticles

Bathurst Burr: Hope comes to Bondi Beach

by Michael Mobbs 30 October 201330 October 2013

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