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

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.

There is no more time-wasting process than that of believing people will act, and then finding that they will not.

Wealth is a deep understanding of the natural world.

If you let people loose in a landscape and tell them to choose a house site, half of them will go sit on the ridges where they'll die in the next fire, or where you can't get water to them. Or they'll sit in all the dam sites. Or they'll sit in all the places that will perish in the next big wind.

Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple.

Why is it that we don't build human settlements that will feed themselves, and fuel themselves, and catch their own water, when any human settlement could do that easily? When it's a trivial thing to do?