It gets harder and harder to read the news. Global warming, peak oil, overpopulation, global food crisis, water shortages, deforestation, depletion of natural resources: the problems we face are overwhelming and the damage seems impossible to stop, never mind reverse, without massive global cooperation which does not appear likely. I look at my kids and I wonder what their lifetimes will bring, and how long before the struggles consuming so much of the world reach them, too.
So when my friend Rhamis showed me what he's been working on with Geoff Lawton (including work on the world's first carbon-neutral city) it seemed almost too good to be true. For the first time in a long time I think that there might be a solution--an idea that solves problems without creating new ones-- and that possibility gives me hope again. The more I read and watched the more excited I got, and I couldn't wait to pass it on.
Permaculture might just be a big part of a sustainable future for us all.
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