David Paynter is the founder of the Gold Coast Tool Library. He passionately wants to reduce waste and transition our cities to a more sustainable way of living. “So many of the products we buy are made to be disposable. That frustrates the hell out of me.
Oneika Polke, David Paynter and Susan Murray of the Gold Coast Tool Library
The tip is full of items being trashed that we can recover and share. Do we need to, or even want to, own all these items we rarely use?
“That attitude inspired me to establish The Gold Coast Tool Library and it was incorporated in 2019. Our small but passionate volunteer team are in the start-up phase, building systems and processes, recruiting volunteers and collecting donations.
Geoff Ebbs is the author of the best-selling Australian Internet Book and a long term environmental activist. He has written, edited and published a wide range of business and environmental books and participated in community radio and publishing.
His radio show and online news site, TheGenerator.news has been operating since 2005. A regular speaker and facilitator at Engineering conferences and workshops Geoff has built on his background in information technology, media and environmental engineering.to nurture the transition to a post-carbon economy.
Geoff continues to drive deep adaptation and regenerative sustainability as the primary agenda for both commercial and community organisations and is currently researching business approaches to those issues at the Griffith Centre for Sustainable Enterprise. The organisation he founded in 2005, Ebono Institute, continues to support community and social enterprise media and his consultancy, Great Notion, provides facilitation and strategic planning services to social enterprise and environmental organisations.
