Steppin' Out Of Babylon: Radio Interviews

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 many thousands of people throughout Latin America with an emphasis on Brazil-- a huge and important country where the disparity in i