[Central Coast CA Permaculture] Interview with Ali Sharif/Permaculture Pioneer 1953 - 2017

[Margie Bushman, Santa Barbara Permaculture Network]

Nice interview with Ali Sharif, permaculture pioneer who died recently,
about the breadth of his work in the Amazon & Latin America.  We will miss
him!  Met him in Croatia at the first International Permaculture convergence
(IPC) we attended, he went on to convene the next IPC in Brazil in 2007,
linking us firmly into the future.  He just visited Santa Barbara recently
this year, for a short but sweet one day visit.  

 

Ali, we were so happy to have shared time with you.

 



1953 - 2017

 

Ali Sharif

Permacultura Latina America

 <http://www.suesupriano.com/article.php?&id=19>
http://www.suesupriano.com/article.php?&id=19

Steppin' Out of Babylon Radio Interviews with Sue Supriano

 

 


 

Ali Sharif is the Project Director of Permacultura Latina America.  The
organization is based in Santa Fe, New Mexico.  The permaculture approach
was designed by Australian Bill Mollison in the late '70's and its
methodology has traveled the globe.  It is based on the connections between
the combined issues of food, clean water, renewable energy, biological
sanitation and dignified shelter and how they coalesce into an integrated
process.

Ali Sharif was born in Iran, educated in Europe and has been working in
Ecuador, Guatemala, Peru and Brazil since 1988 when Permacultura Latina
America, under his direction, started to teach this integrated and
sustainable approach in Latin America.  Most of the time Sharif has lived in
the Amazon working with indigenous groups.  The main work is to train others
in the permaculture approach of harmony and balance.  To date they have
trained many thousands of people throughout Latin America with an emphasis
on Brazil-- a huge and important country where the disparity in income is
the largest in Latin America.  The emphasis is particularly on training
youth with the idea that it is easier to teach young minds than have to
"unlearn" old habits.  These youth in turn pass on their skills.  At the
end, however, economics is still a crucial aspect of the success of these
practices.

 

 

 

 

 

 
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