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  • From: dylanford <dylanford@optonline.net>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] The Spiral Forest - Alan Armstrong
  • Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 08:15:20 -0500

Subject: [permaculture] The Spiral Forest - Alan Armstrong

Jim Channon's First Earth Battalion Manual mentions this book in his section
about reforestation.


Here is a reference to what it's about.


http://www.interspecies.com/pages/art%20for%20nature.html
3. The Planting Spiral
Desertification is the term invented to describe the desert's encroachment on
arable land. It 's effects are most visible in North Africa where the Sahara
has moved southeard 100 kilometers in just the past seventeen years. Planting
trees to stop the desert is not a new idea, what is new, is designing these
plantings to optimize the result. Like all the other projects outlined on
this page, The Tree Spiral design for planting the minimal amount of trees
that grows to achieve the maximum effect. It not only draws upon classical
geometry and botany, but also upon the modern sculptural movement of
"earthworks" exemplified by Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty, constructed at
great Salt Lake. This piece was created and developed by Alan Armstrong of
the Tree Brigade. In his efforts to promote the concept, Armstrong was in
correspondence with Egyptian president Anwar Sadat in the year before the
leader's death. The original spiral planting was designed to originate at the
Nile delta and spiral through Egypt, across to Sinai and the Arabian
Peninsula, terminating at the head of the Gulf of Aqaba. Armstrong believes
that in order to stop desertification, the planting would have to be large
enough to be viewed from space.




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