Peter
I grew up in Turramurra where we had plenty of bushland, magic caves, yabbies and the odd bunyip to explore. Both my parents were scientists but both had extremely wide interests which passed on to us kids. I had ambitions of doing science at uni but life got in the way and at the tender age of 22 I found a thing of wonder in Japan. Six months later we married and in 1974 we moved to Wyoming, not more than 5 minutes' drive to the Narara Research Station. Before long Mami found herself working at the station and so began a long love affair with the Research Station and Strickland State Forest next door. We took a friend of mine, a Japanese Ikebana teacher into the forest one day and he gasped at seeing the Bunya pine fronds, stating that each one would be worth over ten dollars in Tokyo. In more recent years I was almost reduced to tears when a huge pile of overburden from the expressway washed down into Narara Ck serving to destroy the canopy and let the weeds in. But my career was mainly in electronics and computing. For a long time I have been interested in the basic concepts of sustainability and the principles of cutting down on resource wastage. I was angered by the government's intention of selling the Narara land but very relieved when I heard that a small group wanted to buy it for the setting up of an ecovillage. Although I cannot see ourselves moving in to the ecovillage in the early stages I will do everything in my power to facilitate the reality of such a dream, and I already feel very much a part of the community.

Mami