We are entering a new world of danger and opportunity.
Indeed, Nature is none too gently shoving us in that direction.
We are at the end of a 30,000-year era of anomalously mild climate which allowed civilization to flourish. Nearly-free energy from petroleum increased mankind’s power and numbers to a degree considered pure fantasy a hundred years ago. Now we are in an inevitable energy descent, and on a collision course with several likely disasters: Peak Oil. Global Warming. Peak Dollar. Peak Everything.

The smoothest ride has an awkward name: Permaculture. It means permanent agriculture, and more generally, permanent culture. Technologies now exist that, beyond survival, can recreate a paradise on earth within a few generations. To make a sustainable future  for ourselves, our families, and our descendants, we need agreement and a shared vision of the future that’s based on accurate information, kindness, cooperation, tolerance, and non-violence. Then we can feed and protect each other, live in relative harmony, and become parners with, instead of merely users of, Nature. In such a world, the future is unimaginably promising.

Here we present some doorways to the path of sustainability.