Part I: www.youtube.com Part II: www.youtube.com Part III: www.youtube.com Part IV: www.youtube.com This half hour video documents the ongoing work of Permaculture Gurus, Geoff and Nadia Lawton, in the Dead Sea Valley. It begins with the famous original ‘Greening the Desert’ five minute video clip, and then continues into Part II, a 2009 update to the 2001 original. If you prefer, you can watch the whole thing in one hit on Vimeo: vimeo.com You’ll get to see and learn about the original Greening the Desert site and see some of the spin-off effects of its influence throughout Jordan, and you’ll also be introduced to a new educational demonstration site that was started in 2008. You can see the video, and more information about it, in its original post here: www.permaculture.org.au This is inspiring, practical work – the kind of work that should be encouraged, supported and emulated worldwide. It is the ultimate root-cause type of aid work.
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@Swansen03 Who cares about propaganda? I care about Australian money being wasted overseas. Australia should look after it’s own backyard before sending money and experts overseas that could be benefiting Australia and Australians.
@ValiantVendetta if you look at the history, it was at one point “westernized” people shopping, wearing suits, all that jazz, before the war for the oil started. Also man, we are all just people, no real differences, i understand your point/concerns, i do, but don’t believe all the propaganda.
Thank you so much for all your efforts. I sit in class and all day I dream of doing something like this all over the world making a system of some sort. I hope I can join Permasolutions effort one day God willing.
@marcy1414
If you watch more than one video in this sequel, he originally came as a paid consultant by a gov’t project in 2000. He then married a Jordanian. They keep coming back there together, thus his continued connection. And, he is doing this in his own backyard, in Australia.
@wentwirth If you watch more than one video in this sequel, he originally came as a paid consultant by a gov’t project in 2000. He then married a Jordanian. They keep coming back there together. Btw, not all NGOs are corrupt…
One thing to consider is that building code and agricultural principles are more flexible outside of developed countries. Not sure where you would have him set this up. There are examples in Egypt, and the US in Arizona. I would assume that he has some connection to the middle east and made the decision that way in the same way that people join doctors without borders, traveling abroad to help others, bypassing those in need in their own countries. I hope more research and more examples emerge.
Geoff strikes me as a bit of a charlatan; none of this has been here long enough to demonstrate sustainability, although I’m not mocking the idea so much as the obviously political aspects: why this location? There are lots of deserts in the world in need of reclamation, so why meddle in midst of Arabs and Israelis? The use of the term ‘NGO’ always conjures up the corrupt system of grants, patrons, schemes and do-gooders leaving mayhem in their wake…
i went to some berber towns in the western mountain of libya and the people there are using water harvesting tanks also….. good luck guys
Ibraham, you are a star. Beautiful!
What is the tree at 8:15? Did he say Presopis? Does anyone have a link to data on this tree?