http://tinyurl.com/lscho5
"Albert Bates' ongoing research and networking around the world have
resulted in an optimistic message. He agrees there's no way that
collapse of suburbia and business-as- usual can be avoided. But with
ecovillages, permaculture, biochar and all manner of caring for the
Earth, he knows we can do a lot better than to wait for the results of
more fossil foolery and an attempted technofix to maintain the global
corporate economy."