Greening the Desert Project Outcomes Profiled
Most readers will be familiar with the awesome, seemingly miraculous work Geoff and Nadia Lawton accomplished with the ‘Greening the Desert‘ project in Jordan (not to be confused with the new Jordan Valley Permaculture Project, where completely new miracles are under way).
Well, this work has now been well profiled in the ProAct Network’s recent release:
The Role of Environmental Management in Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation, Annex I, Case Studies (4.69mb PDF). Jump to page #59 in Acrobat Reader, or #98 if you’re scrolling by page numbers.
If you’re looking for more practical details on what happened, and is happening, there on the ground – this document should hit the spot, as it were.
Thanks to Andrew Jones for bringing this to my attention.
For those interested in the early history of this fantasic project please see Golbal Permaculture Reports detailed article on the establishment of the “Greening the Desert” Jordan project @ https://www.permaculturenews.org/2005/02/01/use-of-permaculture-under-salinity-and-drought-conditions/
This was a good read, and a fill-in from the sketchy details I saw on the You-Tube clip. With the little info in the article, I managed to find the site in Jordan on Google Maps (satellite view) and it looks SO different from the surrounding agricultural plots. Congratulations to all
Greening the Desert is such an uplifting/levity story, I have personally shared that YouTube clip with 100s and dove into it more times than I can count when I wanted to hear Geoff say it again!
Here is 1000 Hummingbird Water Woman as a Thank You for your effervescent action in our world!: https://www.natural-villages.org/?page_id=185
https://1000hummingbirds.gaia.com/blog/2009/10/love-in-f-o-r-ms-life-new-forms