Bill Wilson and I visited our student Larry McAuliffe’s place in Battle Creek, yesterday. If you recall, Larry is an engineer who lost his job a few years back and has transformed his place into his livelihood. A family of six, they are living on less than $8000.00 a year and living well. They are beating the technological fix, the dependence on the luxuries that we, as a “culture”, rely on unconsciously. “There will always be more, more, more!.” Right? Coinciding with this visit I am in the middle of reading William Catton’s 1980 masterpiece, Overshoot. Highly recommended. Our addictions run deep. The exuberance of the past might become the exit of the future. Permaculture is a balance, a foundation, a blessing to live by. To live an ecologically sound existence and to serve, just may be the right thing to do.
