Climate restrained future demands a simpler approach - 'Wurruk’an'

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daptation to a different, climate restrained future is going to demand a simpler approach; an approach both envisaged and developed by Dr Samuel Alexander.

The lecturer with the Office for Environmental Programs,University of Melbourne, teaching a course called ‘Consumerism and the Growth Paradigm’ in the Masters of Environment, puts his views on “The Simplicity Collective” that encourages us to be pioneers once more.

A research fellow with the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute and co-director of the Simplicity Institute tells readers about “Wurruk’an: seeding a new Earth story”.

He writes, “Over the last two years I’ve been helping develop a ‘simpler way’ demonstration project in Gippsland, Victoria, on a property which we have named Wurruk’an.”

Dr Alexander explained that Wurruk is the local indigenous term meaning both ‘Earth’ and ‘story’. K’an is the Mayan word for ‘seed’.

“We’ve invented the word Wurruk’an to signify our attempt to ‘seed a new Earth story,” he writes.