Greening the Desert
Greening the Desert
0.0 Greening the Desert
2007, 6 m
Documentary
They laughed and said it couldn't be done.
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.
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