Friday May 21, 2010: 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm -- Downtown Library: Multi-Purpose Room

Pulitzer-prize winning author Jared Diamond calls it "the worst mistake in the history of the human race." Is he describing nuclear energy? Suburbia? Coal mining? No. He's talking about agriculture. This event will discuss how new fuels and high technology are not the way out of this dilemma. There are ways to live sustainably on the Earth without going back to the Stone Age. What many of them have in common looks a lot like what today is known as permaculture, an ecological design approach based on knowledge gained from nature. Toby's presentation will show us what makes agriculture, and the industrial society that relies on it, fundamentally unsustainable, and how permaculture offers us a better way.

This event, co-sponsored by the SE Michigan Permaculture Guild, will also feature a book signing and copies of Gaia's Garden will be on sale.