Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Greening the Middle East (2009) - Geoff Lawton

The first five minutes or so of this is one of my all-time favorite youtube video - the original "Greening the Middle East". It's mostly images with voice-over describing the amazing 3-year experience these guys had basically turning hell into heaven in the Jordan desert.

After the original, a patchwork of additional footage was appended showing the project site years later and how it had degraded in the time since the project ended. Then at about 19 minutes in, the scene shifts to their "sequel", The Jordan Valley Permaculture Project and several other locations in the general area. It goes on with personal accounts and video imagery. There are some cool points from time to time, which I'll try to list under "Notes" (below) when I watch it again.

Note:

  • 19:00 - The Jordan Valley Permaculture Project
  • 32:50 - Geoff starts a cool little speech about permaculture spreading
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