Comments on: Greening the Desert II Video – Greening the Middle East

By: Craig Mackintosh

Craig Mackintosh — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 01:45:22 +0000

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/

By: Craig Mackintosh

Craig Mackintosh — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:46:38 +0000

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.

By: abu thaabit

abu thaabit — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 23:06:45 +0000

@ 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

By: murad alkhufash

murad alkhufash — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:00:46 +0000

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 .

By: Nic

Nic — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:54:45 +0000

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.

By: Albert Johnston

Albert Johnston — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:39:09 +0000

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.

By: Albert Johnston

Albert Johnston — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:31:59 +0000

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

By: ethanappleseed

ethanappleseed — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:17:05 +0000

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…

By: ethanappleseed

ethanappleseed — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:11:48 +0000

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

Ethan

By: ethanappleseed

ethanappleseed — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:08:53 +0000

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

Onward!
-Ethan