I'm a lawyer turned teacher and have been studying peak oil, alternative agriculture, and other world changing issues for several years, starting with a speech I read by Wendell Berry. I have two children for whom it is urgent that I join in any efforts to create a sutainable world. My girlfriend and I are interested in beginning a permaculture lifestyle, and have begun to look for property we can afford that is geographical suitable to us in our still "normal" lives and our children, but that can sustain us as "normal" things unravel.