Greening the Desert II Video – Greening the Middle East

DVDs/Books — by Craig Mackintosh November 17, 2009

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• Hi Craig, Thanks for posting the sequel. Very interesting to see what has happened on the Jordan site since I made the 5 minute version in 2001. I like the shot of the two donkeys caught in traffic. Great symbolism.
  Just shows what you can do when editing this video on cardboard boxes – turn them into sheet mulch when you are finished! Cheers Frank

  Comment by Frank — November 18, 2009 @ 9:09 am

• Wow. Great Job Craig.

  Thanks for posting this, it was really well done.

  Comment by Craig — November 18, 2009 @ 10:34 am

• Nice work Craig. Inspirational work from Nadia, Geoff and the wonderful people of the Middle East.. from friends in the encroaching desert drylands of Victoria Australia.

  Comment by Kaye Melbourne — November 18, 2009 @ 11:30 am

• Great stuff Craig. It brings back a lot of memories and I am really happy that you could produce such wonderful stuff in such a short amount of time. Your efforts are appreciated!
  Best
  Tanya and Jesse

  Comment by Tanya — November 18, 2009 @ 11:40 am

• Kudos to you all. The last photo of the little girl always reminds us why we do what we do, for the future……
  I am working on an old G# Mac and am unable to watch your wonderful video. In the future do you see yourself putting it on YouTube?
  That my computer can handle.
  Thanks again to all of you for all you do!

  kim

  Comment by Kim Hayes — November 18, 2009 @ 12:12 pm

• Thanks everyone.

  Kim – sorry to hear you can’t watch it. Is it your computer, or your internet connection? See the ‘tips for watching’ bit under the video. Re YouTube, they only allow ten minute clips. If you can play YouTube clips, you’ll be able to play this – just follow the tips under the video to force the player to buffer the video before you play it.

  Comment by Craig Mackintosh — November 18, 2009 @ 6:11 pm

• Great work Craig, Geoff, and everyone involved – I’ll share it with my PDC students this week.

  Onward!
  -Ethan

  Comment by ethanappleseed — November 19, 2009 @ 6:08 am

• And a huge amount to gratitude to Nadia Lawton for all of her wisdom and action in Jordan – keep on going!

  Ethan

  Comment by ethanappleseed — November 19, 2009 @ 6:11 am

• Is there a way to make the video available for download? Internet is slow & unstable here. Or are you going to sell as a DVD? Making it downloadable via http://www.Miro.com would be great…

  Comment by ethanappleseed — November 19, 2009 @ 6:17 am

• Thank you so much! I can’t wait to try out some of the techniques used in the video.

  Comment by Albert Johnston — November 19, 2009 @ 10:31 am

• I am a concerned about the possiblity of reaction from religious fundamentalists and politicians in Jordan to organized permaculture. I hope for the best and that the local governments and religious community will be open to permaculture. In my own experience I have found permaculture to be a mojor shift in paradigm. Almost a 180 degree shift in how I see the “value stream” within the distribution of goods and services. Also I continue to see American Society as more and more surreal. More often than not I verbalize against the dogma of supply side economics usually to get blasted with a “your wrong”, “prove it” or “how can you say that?”. I don’t know what the political and religious community is like in Jordan but I know that here in the US you won’t win a popularity contest by speaking out against the status quo.

  Comment by Albert Johnston — November 20, 2009 @ 8:39 pm

• Great work, thank you all! Video ran fine once I followed your instructions. Al, Good on you for speaking up, but perhaps throwing the permaculture cold hard truth ’seeds’ straight into the ‘consumption’ fuelled fire is a waste of good energy. As I’m sure you well know they’ll do much better in fertile soil, and a few’ll take in the cracks too, and then perhaps the miraculous growth will convince the some other ‘rocky place’ minds. I wish our Aussie authorities had more respect for permaculture like the Jordanian political (sharing officespace) and royal (thanks) have shown.

  Comment by Nic — November 21, 2009 @ 1:54 am

• Hi my friend really u did a great job and i wish if u did it and get to palestine then we will see our project on line too any way thanks alot for sharing us this video and keep going good luck .

  Comment by murad alkhufash — November 21, 2009 @ 6:00 am

• @ craig, keep up the good work, convey my salaam to geoff and nadia.

  @ anyone concerned about religious fundamentalists

  permaculture is not another religion to challenge the established, as you can see rural jordanians are already familiar with gardening so permaculture is not a great change (compared to westernised suburban folk like myself) and it compliments the existing culture and religion of the people.

  what im trying to say is that i see no reason for ‘religious fundamentalists’ to react negatively to permaculture, rather i expect we would promote it as well because of its numerous benefits.

  i say ‘we’ because according to the stereotypical definition i am a religious fundamentalist, and i promote permaculture to, and there is no contradiction between islam and permaculture, so there is no reason for concern, unless someone turns it into a missionary activity.

  kind regards

  Comment by abu thaabit — November 29, 2009 @ 9:06 am

• For those who wanted to download a hard copy of the video, you can now do so. Click on the following link to find out how.

  http://permaculture.org.au/2009/12/11/greening-the-desert-ii-final/

  This is a slightly revised version, with the original Greening the Desert clip inserted at the beginning, and the Part II segment cleaned up slightly.

  Comment by Craig Mackintosh — December 11, 2009 @ 3:46 pm

• Also – for those that wanted to see it on YouTube, it’s now uploaded there as well, in four parts.

  See paragraph three of the following post for details:

  http://permaculture.org.au/2009/12/11/greening-the-desert-ii-final/

  Comment by Craig Mackintosh — December 14, 2009 @ 11:45 am

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