Permaculture is the conscious design and maintenance of agriculturally productive ecosystems which have the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural ecosystems. It is the harmonious integration of landscape and people providing their food, energy, shelter and other material and non-material needs in a sustainable way. Without permanent agriculture there is no possibility of a stable social order.

Compressed air can provide limitless amounts of clean energy using technology we have had for hundreds of years.

If you let the world roll on the way it's rolling, you're voting for death. I'm not voting for death.

I gave one permaculture course in Botswana, and now my students are out in the bloody desert in Namibia teaching Bushmen - whose language nobody can speak - to be very good permaculture people.

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

It is no mere coincidence that there is both an historic and a present relationship between community (people assisting each other) and a poverty of power due to financial recession.

We have to let nature put what's left together, and see what it can come up with to save our ass.