Ben Zumeta wrote:This could be a good opportunity to have the crown fund permaculture projects as carbon offsets for their lifestyle. I am not for excusing opulent waste, but if it gets food forests planted and saves soils, use that waste as a fertilizer for action.
Won't happen. Tradition and law prevent the crown from taking any kind of bias. If he did, the backlash would do terrible damage to the permaculture and other eco-movements for years to come.
This is why he was so vocal about it as a prince. And why he was vocal about climate issues long before they became part of the zeitgeist. He never knew when he would have to take the crown and be silent on the topic so he did as much as possible as early as possible and as loudly as possible.
His book, Harmony, was a great primer on the topic and brought a lot of awareness about permaculture issues and solutions to the permies.
He can, however, make small changes to the running of the different households. A veggie garden for every kitchen in the different properties, using sheep as grass-powered lawnmowers. These little things will show his values in a non-partisan way. I suspect we'll see something like this in the years to come.