[Sdpg] Australian permaculture utilised in Iraqi

[Wesley Roe and Marjorie Lakin Erickson]

Australian permaculture utilised in Iraqi
                      re-build -


                      Australian permaculture technology is being used to
                      re-build whole villages in war ravaged Iraq.

                      Permaculture consultant, Geoff Laughton is currently in
                      the northern Iraq town of Erbil, where locals are
                      embracing the philosophy.

                      The work is being funded by the United Nations High
                      Commission on Refugees (UNHCR).

                      Geoff Laughton is amazed how the Iraqi's are now using
                      straw left over from millions of hectares of grain 
crops, to
                      rebuild whole towns. "This is the first time that the 
UNHCR
                      have funded such an alternative building program,
                      they're loving it , they've doubled our funding. The 
local
                      people themselves are quite empowered ... they're
                      getting in front of us because they've got quite a lot of
                      time on they're hands, they're organised on a village
                      level."

                      This is a transcript from the ABC National Rural
                      News that is broadcast daily to all states on ABC
                      Regional Radio's Country Hour and in the city on

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