25 April 2013

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Food forests going viral!

Geoff Lawton, one of the original figures in Permaculture wants to make the knowledge of how to grow self-sustaining food forests available to the world to transform the planet. These food forests are living systems which can thrive anywhere from areas of heavy snow to deserts to densely populated cities. He's put out three videos so far which are a must-watch for anyone sustainability minded - especially those who want to start growing their own food!

• Video 1: Surviving the coming crises
• Video 2: The Property Purchase Checklist
• Video 3: Five Acre Abundance on a Budget
• Greening The Desert

Well it turns out the course is $1000 which although good value from the western middle-class perspective, is completely unthinkable for most of the planet's population where over half the people earn less than $2 per day and the vast majority are struggling merely to keep their family fed, clothed and housed.

Hi Geoff,

I really got the sense from your initial video introductions that you wanted to change the world by making this invaluable knowledge available to all who were receptive to it. You made it sound as though you'd got to a sustainable and abundant position in life and didn't need to make huge piles of cash from it. But instead it's just another capitalist marketing scheme which is completely inaccessible to 99% of the people on the planet.

Bitterly disappointed,

Aran