The primary focus of today’s podcast is: lasting sustainability, how we can achieve it and how we can avoid the many traps along the way.

• Taoism and the spontaneous nature of existence
• Problem with environmental activism “the world we don’t want versus the world we do want”
• Forcing behavior versus incentivizing behavior
• Permaculture
• Food forests
• Beneficial interaction between plants/animals/people
• How we can use permaculture to improve our land and reduce work
• Solar cooking
• Stepping back and realizing the simple solutions to problems