Global Eco over 40 years

People and Places.
Ecologists, environmentalists, foresters etc. Lifetime careers in reforestation, crop growing and land recovery.
Countries include: India, Sudan, Casamance (Senegal), Limpopo Valley Scheme (Africa), Jordan, Spain, Tunisia, Abu Dhabi, Algeria, Zambezi, Mauritius (& Rodrigues).
Documentary filmmakers. including Harry Hart, cinematographer: Some 100 countries (including some of the above).has shot some 2,000 documentaries across the world, all manner of subjects, from Heads of State to people dying from starvation and malaria including One Man’s Hunger directed by Bill Morton, about 50 years ago.

Eco sub-cultures and Registered Charities, largely self-funded:
How to Make the Deserts Flourish (1968). Deserts Domes. The Green Desert Group.
The Desert Coastal Pilot. Social & Industrial Simplifiers Ltd. Green Deserts Ltd. Sunseed Trust. Green Deserts Ghana. SEED USA. Optimum Path. Global Eco. Planplan.  Actual Practical Answers. .
 And other similar goodwill groups.
Associates: FREdome Visionary Trust,  C-Green Solutions,  SPREAD registered charity.
                                   
Activities
Overseas projects, surveys, practicals, prototyping, events, meetings, Tree Fairs, combining knowledge and experience.
In 1972 we established a UK base with two large houses, several workshops, land, a pond, a tree nursery and some 200 voluntary self-funded people including:
Ecologists, environmentalists, agro-foresters, climatologists, horticulturalists, microbiologists, engineers, scientists, technologists, innovators and inventors, hydroponics professionals, natural energy experts, academics, teachers, builders, macrobiotics, and organic gardeners from a variety of backgrounds and countries.  Some of whom have worked in, travelled, studied and experienced our world extensively.

Personnel including:
Dr Richard St Barbe Baker OBE, (Awarded by Prince Charles) founder of Men of the Trees (now International Tree Foundation) author, inventor of the caravan, responsible for planting more trees worldwide than any one.
James Sholto-Douglas, Plant ecologist. Worked on overseas projects for ODA, UN, etc. horticulture and forestry. Author of several books and specialist on hydroponics also on ecology and others, co-author Forest Farming (agro-forestry) Trustee of Green Deserts.
Lawrence D Hills, Founder of Henry Doubleday Research Association (HDRA), the world’s largest organic gardening group; and overseas projects.
Dr Christopher Hills, President of the Microalgae International Union from 1965, co-author of Food From Sunlight introduced and cultured Spirulina and Chlorella. Stated methane, benzene and petroleum can be made from algae. He proposed refertilising deserts with microalgae in 1978.
John Davies OBE, re-organised the British gas industry. Designed continuous cropping in hot climates to make methane gas in large enough amounts to make petrol.
James Grant, climatologist. Including using trees to induce, or inhibit, rainfall.
Dr Patrick Ffiske Howden, Australian. Author of Ecologists and active land recovery.
Stephen Sampson, Ran a land recovery project in Jordan, a book on methane gas, widely travelled studying biology and natural energy technology, founded and ran Sunseed Trust project recovering a Spanish deserted village organically and with natural energy. Worked with Edward Goldsmith founder of The Ecologist Magazine.
Wendy Campbell Purdy. International tree planter. Algeria etc.
Bob Flowerdew, early member of Green Deserts (currently not interested).
Harry Hart, Loretta Quartey, John Agnew, Founders of Green Deserts in 1972.
Harry was assistant to Joe Durden who made the film Soil Science around 1947.
Lesley Bremness, horticulturalist author of HERBS Eyewitness Handbook and other books. Chelsea Flower Show, and media presenter.
David Diego Mulligan USA, Radio eco programmer, founder of an eco village in New Mexico.
Greg Peachey founder of FREdome, communicator and promoter of forward-looking  proposals and visionaries. Advocate for Global Eco.
Harry Alderslade, introduced us to atmospheric CO2 in 1970, wrote a book but no one was interested.
Tim Eiloart, Founder of Cambridge Consultants, formed Sunseed Trust and funded a project in the Spanish desert.
Martin Farnell, solar engineer and inventor of numerous solar energy devices and systems. Low tech and high tech. Capable of great world benefits. Original member of Green Deserts.
Also Maurice Crook, Piers Corke, Owen Dumpleton, Peter Acton, Julia Walsh, .John Lyons, Tony Cordey, Lindsey De la Terre, and many, many others as members and supporters. Regretfully some of the above are now demised although their contributions have helped to change a good idea into an obviously practical proposition.

By working together the above identified how to feed the starving and provide for virtually unlimited foods on a continuously cyclic basis for the whole world.
Then followed how to resolve climate change by changing atmospheric carbon dioxide into foods, materials and world resources.
Subsequently identified, how to also resolved the energy crisis and the global financial crisis.
Summarised. Solutions to:
Global warming.
World food.
Continuous and almost limitless energy by cyclic systems.
World resources and materials.
The elimination of starvation.
The reasons for, and the obvious solution to, the global financial chaos.

All this is simple and immediate to achieve by working with the natural processes, functions and cycles of our God-given planet.
This is a global concept.
Virtually none of this is known by the Power People and those in charge.
 

Global Eco, Data. Associates and/or successors to various organisations, now have an extremely large accumulation of researches, knowledge and understanding from forty years of inputs. Designs, texts, reports, slide shows, prototypes, materials, proposals and about 100 books, some very rare. Also including recordings on audio and video tapes, a home produced website and 20 minute video about the original Desert Coastal Pilot project.
Most of the total archive has been collected chronologically and is in random order. It will take a team of three a year to produce a fully comprehensive document on a great diversity of practical world recovery, with interim reports in the process. 

General. One of the three Founders of the main charity provided the base in the Suffolk countryside for two decades. The other two Founders provided funding supporting and progressing  the organisations, the properties and the projects by up to £10,000 a year for thirty five years. Almost all the inputs were given to the practical aspects of world wasteland recovery with very little given to promotion.
Prior to the advent of the global warming crisis we had assumed, quite rightly, that all the excess CO2 in the air could be used for wasteland recovery, for which we had developed the techniques.
However, all the mainstream attention by world leaders and the media has been concentrated exclusively on the emissions from fossil fuels with total disregard for using the carbon dioxide in the air as a very valuable, and useable, asset. This has put extra demands on our limited resources by researching many further ways in which air-carbon can be used – and there are many, ignored unfortunately, by those in charge to whom we have written repeatedly.
We now know how to generate the greatest ever worldwide wealth continuously from air carbon but the extra commitments have reduced our funds to nil. What a paradox!
Our world really is faced with inevitable disaster unless carbon cycling can be brought in effect very soon. The longer the delay the worse the catastrophes.
There appears to be no alternatives and no others with a viable plan. If there were we would join them because it is our people and our planet with which we are concerned..

1). Sir Nicholas Stern says we are: “…very close to catastrophe…”.
2). Al Gore/Richard Branson say that if the temperature goes up six degrees we shall be extinct.
3). Stephen Sackur of Hardtalk says: “…this is an emergency…”.  And so on…
Now, if this were a war situation (i.e. something we recognised) we would be mobilised by now.
Twenty years ago our people were twenty years ahead.  And we still are – but there’s no time left.