The Permaculture Garden

http://permaculture.org.au/2008/08/30/geoff-lawton-all-the-worlds-problems-can-be-solved-in-a-garden/

"On Thursday August 28, 2008 one of the world’s top permaculture designers, Australian Geoff Lawton, spoke to a standing-room-only audience at Santa Barbara City College in Santa Barbara. The presentation was sponsored by the Santa Barbara Permaculture Network and the SBCC Center for Sustainability, led by biology professor Dr. Adam Green.


Lawton described some of the projects he and his Jordanian wife, Nadia, have been doing around the world and showed some of the You Tube videos about their work (see resources below).

What distinguishes Lawton is his sophisticated and even shocking land repair technique, probably best illustrated by the “Greening the Desert” video that shows the “before” and “after” pictures of a project near the ancient Middle Eastern city of Jericho. One of Lawton’s favorite phrases is “getting a result” and his results have been so impressive that he now travels the world starting up new permaculture land repair operations in many places.

He is currently working in a number of Middle Eastern countries, Africa, Vietnam and other locations rehabilitating land and he also works with the UN on an ambitious set of projects to rapidly create sustainable human habitat for the armies of refugees the world’s growing political, economic and environmental crises are now creating. Lawton and his Permaculture Research Institute teams design solutions, get land repair, food and natural building housing projects started, train local people and outside students on the site and then leave a sustainable food forest behind in good local hands after three years. Most crisis aid is anything but sustainable – flying in temporary food and medicine from elsewhere, creating temporary shelter and then leaving refugee populations in unsustainable circumstances – so this is an exciting new design for solving a critical human problem."

O que significa "Permacultura"?

Definição de Permacultura oferecida pelo TreeYo:
"Permacultura é a integração harmoniosa de todos os reinos da vida em ecossistemas agrícolas produtivos e ambientes socialmente justos que produzem consequências económicas salutares. É uma ciência de design que reflete padrões da natureza, buscando construir sinergias permitindo a eficiência energética e a abundância de produção.
- TreeYo Permacultura é uma equipe de educadores e designers comprometidos com o trio de ecossistemas: água, solo e as árvores "
http://treeyopermaculture.wordpress.com/

Permaculture Definition offered by TreeYo:
"Permaculture is the harmonious integration of all life kingdoms into agriculturally productive ecosystems and socially just environments that produce sound economic consequences. It is a design science that reflects patterns in Nature, while seeking to build interconnections allowing for energy efficiency and abundance of yield.

- TreeYo Permaculture is a team of educators and designers committed to the trio of ecosystems: water, soil, and trees"