I believe humanity is a pretty interesting lot, and they're all really busy doing and thinking interesting things.

That we don't design agriculture to be sustainable is totally eerie. We design it to be a disaster, and of course, we get a disaster.

Permaculture is an integrated, evolving system of perennial and self-perpetuating plants and animal species useful to man.

The tragic reality is that very few sustainable systems are designed or applied by those who hold power, and the reason for this is obvious and simple: to let people arrange their own food, energy and shelter is to lose economic and political control over them. We should cease to look to power structures, hierarchical systems, or governments to help us, and devise ways to help ourselves.

If you only do one thing, collect rainwater.

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.

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