My students are constantly amazing me.

You can't cooperate by knocking something about or bossing it or forcing it to do things.

We don't have to suppose we need oil, or governments, or anything.

The end result of the adoption of permaculture strategies in any country or region will be to dramatically reduce the area of the agricultural environment needed by the households and the settlements of people, and to release much of the landscape for the sole use of wildlife and for re-occupation by endemic flora.

I guess I would know more about permaculture than most people, and I can't define it. It's multi-dimensional - chaos theory was inevitably involved in it from the beginning.

If people want some guidance, I say, just look at what people really do. Don't listen to them that much.

A really failing society has a lot of rules (or laws).