Restoring Ecology in the Eastern Mediterranean with Thomas Fernley Pearson

Thomas Fernley Pearson is a badass.

[@nuahtransit5858]

Thanks for sharing and hard work, I’m from Kurdistan , we have a good resources of ecology to study. Years nobody visited Kurdistan’s mountains for studying

[@The2012332]

Great video! Thank you all!

[@mariannegibson1407]

Thank you so much for this presentation and discussion - inspiring and very informative

[@davidwinter9398]

Life experience things. Great video

[@OBRfarm]

How can we help out with permaculture in Palestine??

[@OBRfarm]

Would like to learn more about your projects and to help out.

[@erbauungstutztaufgnade1875]

👍🏼

[@maracohen5930]

Is this actually happening in the Palestinian Authority? I have been watching the "Greening the Desert", and have been much impressed with Geoff Lawton's work. My Grandmother was a Refugee from the Arab Massacre of Jews of Hebron in 1929, and she always told me about the desertification of the land when the ancient water management systems were destroyed during the Mamluk/Ottoman Turkish Eras. It would be fabulous if the Arab Palestinians in Areas "A" and "C" were able to embrace this system for Land Regeneration.

[@suleymanpolat8487]

Everyone blame Turks for everything went wrong in M. East and Balkans...

[@maracohen5930]

@@suleymanpolat8487 Actually the Mamelukes did a hella lot of damage before the Ottomans, the the Arabs did a lot of damage when they invaded, most of the damage to the ancient Nabatean water management systems was in fact due to Nomadic Arabs.

[@o00oZu1o00o]

When I listen to you, I understand why jews had to flee european countries and build a country for themselves. For viewers : At 1:35, interesting contour map. His list of trees for the mediterranean : green oak, daisies, brambles, dandelion, almond, rye wheat, a kind of apple, moringa peregrina, acacia tree, jujube, pistacchio tree, carob tree, crataegus bush. This is all I learned (or rather, re-learned) from this vid. 80% of the subject of restoring the mediterranean landscape has to do with water harvesting, storage, and distribution. You'll have to go elsewhere to learn about it.

[@maracohen5930]

LOLOLOL!!! European Folks always forget there has always been the local Jewish Community, the Jews from the European Diaspora are simply repatriating descendants of those Jews taken off as slaves to Europe by the Romans, but that was the Elites, everybody else was left in place, Romans had to have someone pay taxes. Bill Mollison's work is the basis for a number of communities in the Negev. It would be wonderful to see good water management in the Palestinian Authority. (an Arab autonomous area of Judea/Samaria, and the Gaza) Food and water sovereignty is an imperative! And right now, due to massive work, Israel is the only Nation State in the area that is. This speaker doesn't seem to realize his "narrative" has no basis in law, history or reality. But that was the Brit Way there always. They treated the Mandatory as though it were their National Colony, which it wasn't, and they are the ones who gave TransJordan (Arab Palestine) to the Hashemites as a personal feudal fiefdom. Oh well, classic european colonizer type. And there wouldn't be a security barrier if the Arabs hadn't indulged the habit of blowing themselves and everything else up. Between 2002 when the barrier was begun, and now, Arabs from the Palestinian Authority have gone from hundreds of attacks to none. Really sad, I remember when Arabs didn't suicide bomb children in Israel, and there was no need to have checkpoints. But this guy acts like Arabs are some national identity, and that was only developed as part of Arab Nationalism in the 60's.