Understanding how our economy and environment interact is all good and well in the abstract corridors of your theory mind but what if you could FEEL how it works?
Welcome to Earthshare, an interactive role-play game where participants take on the role of factors within our economy and play out the life cycle of a newborn community. Feel the voicelessness of the environment, taste the ease of the juicy landowner's rents, but more importantly, take it apart and recreate your own version of how we interact with each other and the Earth. Search for a way we can share the Earth to reach the 2 aims of: 1 Environmental Sustainability 2.Fairer sharing of resources amongst people
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Kirk is one of three Earthsharing Scholarship students, a role which has involved developing and running high school workshops, organising and facilitating an environmental camp at Anglesea and working with students to produce a documentary based around the camp.
Earthsharing's message of environmental sustainability and social justice interlinks with Kirk's almost complete degree in International Community Development and Victoria University. In his passionate search for learning around harmonious community, Kirk has been working on a public housing project in Port Melbourne and heading up a small not for profit group called Australians For Cambodian Education (ACE). ACE raises resources for a project in Cambodia called Happy Schools, where he spends a month each year doing the educational bidding of 32 excellent students. Kirk completed a diploma of community development at Swinburne last year and has also received the State Outstanding Student of the year - vocational for the accelerated leaning opportunities gained through community projects.
A personal and people driven quest for a harmonious relationship with our earth is at the core of his journey and he's pretty excited about the potential for global change flowing from the recent acceleration of the environment into public consciousness