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Greening the Desert

submitted by notarobot

1 decade 6 years 8 months 1 week ago

Geoff Lawton talks about how his agriculture designs recovered deserts in the Mideast, converting the dead, salty soil to food producing land in a matter of months.

6 Comments

Thank for this sift. It would be fantastic to reclaim portions of desert.

Desertification is given as one of the reasons for Darfur.
I know that parts of China are becoming desert also with poor farming techniques also.

ahh yes. i remember his TEDtalk on permaculture.

*howto save our soil.

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youmakekittymad

really fantastic stuff. very reminiscent of janine benyus' work on biomimicry (the farm as prairie concept) and, by extension, rachel carson's work in raising awareness that we cannot farm by just covering our soil with chemicals forever.

anyone interested in this should also look up william mcdonough's 'cradle to cradle' work in architecture and design

fissionchips

*eco

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