Within the first few weeks of taking a permaculture course or lecture, something powerful can happen. I saw it in the eyes of other participants having the same revelations as me. A sense of despair and helplessness about the state of the world started to melt away as our proverbial tool belts began to fill.
“Permies” as they are affectionately called, are bootstrapper-types who focus on positive solutions to the world’s biggest problems. It turns out that the answers can be much simpler than we may have thought.
