The “biointensive” growing system, a modernized version of an ancient method, could provide a vast opportunity to employ idled workers and produce food.

And it may happen sooner than you think.

An established forest, rather than being an arena for individual self-interest and unbridled competition, is in fact a highly cooperative community.

Synergy is in fact one of the great governing principles of the natural world; it should rank right up there with such heavyweight concepts as gravity, energy, information and entropy as one of the keys to understanding how the world works.

Synergy is the underlying cause of collective violence, in nature and human societies alike. It is various forms of synergy that enable various animals collectively to achieve ends that would not otherwise be possible by acting alone.