Greening the Desert

By Curtiss Martin in Ecolectic on April 28, 2008

Geoff Lawton of the Permaculture Research Institute of Australia describes in this video how he took 10 acres of arid desert in Jordan and transformed it into a functioning garden. They even grew mushrooms!! More of this please…

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Curtiss P. Martin grew up in a geodesic dome on the side of a mountain in Southern Appalachia. Now he serves as ScribeMedia's clean technology editor in a tall building in downtown Manhattan.

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  1. This is truly inspirational. If the same system was applied in Africa, it would be a greater relief to the continent than the kind of aid currently being sent by the UN and other NGOs.

    Posted by Dominique | May 1, 2008, 6:32 pm

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