Reading Time: 20 minutes It was like a scene from an apocalyptic movie. A convoy of army trucks hauling away corpses as the local crematorium was overwhelmed with bodies from the hospital. The news report was particularly dreadful to watch because the affected area was only some 5 hours’ drive away from where we live, and, disturbingly, the number […]

Reading Time: 10 minutes In my past life I used to work as an exploration geologist, prospecting for gold and silver in rural Australia.  Geologists usually work on a FIFO (fly-in fly-out) roster, and so did I, working 10 days on-site followed by 4 days off.​ Since I was working in a very rural area, my commute home took […]

Reading Time: 7 minutes My website and all its posts have always been permaculture-focused, but from time to time I like to explore what’s happening with society as a whole. It’s hard to ignore the intensely geopolitical world we live in, and, for a permaculture farm owner, it’s potentially detrimental to do so. As you’ll read in the rest […]

Reading Time: 20 minutes Do you ever wonder what the future might look like in 10, 20, 30 years? I mean, when you think about it, virtually everything we take for granted today is on an unsustainable trajectory. Isn’t it inevitable that anything unsustainable must end someday? You might decide to ignore this fact, and pretend that everything will […]

Reading Time: 18 minutes We have reached a turning point in society. What we do as a civilization in this century will determine whether we thrive or perish. Although every generation seems to believe that they are somehow special, the technological and societal changes that are coming are on a scale that’s unique in the history of humanity. If […]