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September 12, 2006

Re-Greening The World Activism  Environment  Science/Technology

I must confess that things have sometimes felt pretty hopeless to me of late. But this is an antidote. It's positively brilliant. Do yourself a favor, stop what you're doing, and watch it. Excerpt:

We could re-green the Middle East. We could re-green any desert and we could de-salt it at the same time...You can fix all the world's problems in a garden. You can solve 'em all in a garden, you can solve all your pollution problems and supply-line needs in a garden. Most people today don't actually know that, and that makes most people today very insecure.

How's it done? Watch the video.

Anyone can do it; it's based on know-how, not massive capital investment. And it's based on humbly cooperating with Nature, not aggressively trying to dominate it.

I love this kind low-tech, common-sense solution to problems.

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Comments

This is amazing, creating fertile farmland out of desert. This technique could feed a lot of people.

Farming is humanly natural, not earthly natural, so I have a very minor point to make on nature and domination from a natures point of view. From the Earth's perspective, agriculture of any kind is unnatural. Everytime man takes an area of land and heavily farms it, organically or not, we're doing something outside of natures design. We're humans, we come in large numbers and we need to eat. Working within the economic system we created for ourselves, farming is the only way we can feed so many of us, so I'm obviously not against it. But I'll always know that everytime we create farmland, regardless of size and farming method, we are in fact dominating nature.

I wonder if all deserts get enough rain for this type of farming.

Posted by: Jeff at September 13, 2006 12:22 AM

Thanks for checking out one of our posts, we try and post as many postive things as negative just so we don't all get depresed.

There is hope we just need to get our act together.

See more at www.thesietch.org and www.blog.thesietch.org

Thanks
Shane

Posted by: Shane at September 18, 2006 06:26 PM