Entropia

2013 Alexander, Samuel. Entropia [Cover adds Life Beyond Industrial Civilization]. Melbourne, Vic, Australia: Simplicity Institute Publishing. MiU

Story of a successful experiment in simple living on an isolated island. See also, the author’s “A Prosperous descent: Telling new stories as the old book closes.” In Alexander Samuel and Bronwyn Adcock. Imagining the Future: Notes from the Frontier EBook to accompany Griffith Review No. 52. Ed. Julianne Schultz and Brendon Gleeson (South Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Griffith University in conjunction with Text Publishing, 2016), 4-24. The author discusses the way his 2013 utopia Entropia led to a demonstration site that began by building an earthship followed by other buildings, an organic garden, and, ultimately, a community established as an experiment in 2015 for one year. While optimistic, the author is also open about the challenges faced and errors made. Available through https://www.griffithreview.com/editions/imagining-the-future/ The author discusses the way his 2013 utopia Entropia led to a demonstration site that began by building an earthship followed by other buildings, an organic garden, and, ultimately, a community established as an experiment in 2015 for one year. While optimistic, the author is also open about the challenges faced and errors made. The Australian author is a Research Fellow with the Melbourne Sustainable Society Initiative, and a part-time lecturer with the Office for Environmental Programs at the University of Melbourne, co-director of the Simplicity Institute and co-founder of Transition Coburg in Coburg, a suburb of Melbourne, part of the Transition Town movement, which began in Ireland, to work to improve the environment one town at a time.