Greening the Desert
Greening the Desert

Greening the Desert

(2007)
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February 3, 2007
"They laughed and said it couldn't be done."

Overview

Permaculture expert Geoff Lawton describes how he and a team of volunteers grew an oasis in arid, salty lowland, despite extremely high temperatures and minimal irrigation. The site is the lowest dryland expanse on Earth: a plain in Jordan, two kilometres northeast of the Dead Sea, and 400 metres below sea level.