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Permaculture principle 9: Use Small and Slow solutions - Slow and steady wins the race! Start weening yourself off the oil-fuelled caffeine/sugar-high of the last century and start working at a more natural pace. Good things take time.

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In the future
When there’s no more fossil energy
How we gonna feed the masses
And have enough for you and me?

Life today seems pretty good
Like we came out on top
But I wonder how we’re gonna get down
Just gotta be careful we don’t drop

Take it slow
Make it small and slow
To avoid the confusion
Use small and slow solutions
Yeah
Mmm

In your front yard
You can grow most of your food
In a space the size of your driveway
Doesn’t have to be huge

Plant a seed, watch it grow
It’ll feed ya, just let it go
Don’t want the pain of too much to maintain
So stay inside the right size

And take it slow
Make it small and slow
Who needs the green revolution
When you’ve got small and slow solutions
Yeah
Mmm

When we quit our oil addiction
How we gonna get around
Well I think there’s a small and slow solution, people
In this technology I've found

It’s called your feet
And they’re pretty good for getting from A to B
It takes a bit longer
But your legs come out stronger
And there’s lots of nice things to see

When you take it slow
Make it small and slow
Don’t create no pollution
With small and slow solutions
Yeah
Mmm

Bigger isn’t always better
Faster don’t make you stronger
If we keep going the way we’re going
Oh, we won’t be around for much longer

So instead of running towards a brick wall
Why not walk instead and save your head
The bigger it is the harder it falls
So keep it small, keep it small and

Take it slow
Cos the dream of unlimited growth
Is just a popular delusion
So use small and slow solutions
Yeah
Mmm

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from Permaculture: A Rhymer's Manual, released April 1, 2013
Charlie Mgee: ukulele, vocals, drums
Alex Burkoy: u-bass
Harry Jakamarra: banjo
Kevin Jones: blues harp

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Formidable Vegetable Denmark, Australia

Permaculture funk-swing for a changing world.

With a wheelbarrow full of dirty electro radish-beets, crusty jazz ukulele, swingin' strings and hyperactive horns, Formidable Vegetable are here to sow the garden of your mind with seeds of future-resilience in the funkiest way possible.

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