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Sunday, January 02, 2011

All you need is a garden

maintaining the thread of hopefulness inspired by a new year, here's a follow-on to yesterday's post...

in this video clip, geoff lawton highlights a demonstration permaculture project his organization undertook near the dead sea in jordan... having traveled a bit in southern jordan, i can attest to the extreme aridity of the region that lawton describes...

http://www.permacultureplanet.com
Permaculture in Action - Greening the Desert - Geoff Lawton's Ground Breaking implementation of Permaculture in The Dead Sea Valley. This video illustrates how Permaculture design techniques can restore a Salt Ridden Degraded Landscape to a flourishing and diverse Oasis. For more information about Geoff and his Permaculture work please visit; http://www.permaculture.org.au




and here's a little bit of background on the project... (note: the background comprises the first two minutes of the clip and the rest repeats the video above...)




once again, thanks to next world tv...

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