Mission

To transform degraded environments into biodiverse ecosystems with thriving human settlements, while reducing atmospheric CO2 to pre-industrial levels.

Values

• Protecting the natural environment.
• Creating permaculture-designed ecosystems and reversing.
• environmental degradation.
• Helping people out of poverty and into eco-affluent lifestyles.
• Understanding that real wealth and happiness do not lie in money or possessions.
• Making evidence-based decisions.
• Being excellent.
• Inspiring and empowering other people to have similar values.

Projects

To transform degraded environments into biodiverse ecosystems with thriving human settlements, while reducing atmospheric CO2 to pre-industrial levels.

Desert afforestation

Introduction

The goal of the desert afforestation project is to transform the deserts and semi-deserts of the world into biodiverse ecosystems populated by ecoaffluent people. The ecosystem will contain forest gardens, sustainable houses and nature reserves. The deep, carbon-rich soils created will be large carbon sinks. The project will use a combination of high and low technological design solutions and be based on the principles of permaculture.

The project will commence in the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region and will initially concentrate on the restoration of coastal ecosystems, probably facing the Atlantic ocean before moving into the desert interior. The occupants of the houses that will be built will be drawn from the poorest regions of the world. These people will be involved in the design and construction of the settlements

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