Geoff Lawton
Geoff Lawton is a world renowned Permaculture consultant, designer and teacher. Lawton was British born and now resides in Australia. He first took his Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) Course in 1983 with Bill Mollison the founder of Permaculture. Geoff has undertaken thousands of jobs teaching, consulting, designing, administering and implementing, in 6 continents and close to 50 countries. Lawton’s ‘master plan’ is to see aid projects being replicated as fast as possible to help ameliorate the growing food and water crisis. He actively establishes permaculture demonstration sites that also function as education centres for local and international students in Jordan, Afghanistan, Spain, Malaysia, Vietnam, Yemen, United Arab Emirates, Morocco, Thailand, China and many more countries.
Lawton is the managing director of The Permaculture Research Institute Australia and The Permaculture Research Institute USA. Lawton has achieved success in establishing a permaculture ecosystem in Wadi Rum, in southern Jordan. He has also helped to begin the Al Baydha Project, a land restoration program, in western Saudi Arabia.
“You can solve all the world’s problems in a garden.”
Location: Zaytuna Farm, NSW, Australia
Organization: The Permaculture Research Institute Australia and USA
Publications: Brick and Tile Permaculture, Permaculture Aid in the Balkans, Future Food Security”, Green Connections, The Sleeping Jaguar
Website: https://www.discoverpermaculture.com
Video 1: Permaculture: Positive Change for a World in Crisis
Video 2: Intro to Permaculture
