Flashtoonz Films

Greening the Desert Revisited

Ten years after Permaculture guru Geoff Lawton’s attempt at greening a small part of the desert in the Middle East,  is a new video currently being produced by Craig Mackintosh called “Greening the Desert II.”  Geoff and Craig are currently in Jordan filming and documenting the site and looking back at what has happened ten years later. Geoff will play the video segment at the Permaculture conference in Malawi in a few weeks time.

The original “Green the Desert” segment was a flash based multimedia story made by us for ABC Online. It traces Geoff Lawton’s steps to re-green and desalinate a desolate sandy location in Jordan and turn it onto a thriving green oasis. With spectacular results, the site was transformed using permaculture principles  that dumbfounded the authorities. The video segment above was a recorded interview we did with Geoff for the Food Forest documentary made a year ago and explains what has happened to that site since it was transformed.