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Music: Excerpt from Way to the Roots by Haytham Safia Quartet
Photo credits,
Thanks to Miguel Jaramillo for all the great desert photos.
Extreme tree: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pedronet/3975329408/sizes/l/in/photostream/
Cat: http://www.scenicreflections.com/download/282058/running_cat_Wallpaper/ (watch out, loads of popups etc…)
A new study published in Science Advances shows that the global freshwater crisis is worse than previously thought. Other studies focus on annual figures and fail to take into account seasonal fluctuations in rainfall. The new study assesses “blue water scarcity globally at a high spatial resolution on a monthly basis” and finds that two-thirds of the…
[youtube=http://youtu.be/-AnRUhxRDA4] Allan Savory describes his successes in reversing desertification.
LIMA – Peru’s University of Engineering and Technology (UTEC) was about to open the applications for the period 2013, so they needed to get students’ attention. Lima, the capital, and its surrounding villages such as Bujama are located in the coastal deserts of Peru. In these places, there were many people suffering from the lack…
At last, a mainstream documentary about “the environment” that looks at real causes instead of just blathering about “climate change”. Now that the deserts are spreading into Europe, maybe we will see some of the tax money going to research that will lead to change, rather than just UN-boosting carbon taxes. But don’t hold your…
We are proud to announce a Permaculture Design Certificate course in Ait Attab, in the beautiful Atlas Mountains of Morocco, where our project is. Taking this course in Morocco will subsidize the training of local people, helping to establish permaculture systems to restore this delicate environment. It will run from 17 to 30 April 2010.
An accurate identification of a problem is crucial for a satisfactory solution. Does it make sense, in a country with extremely low rainfall, where 95% of water for agriculture comes from groundwater, to rely entirely on crops that require lots of water? No, of course not! But Suadi Arabia is ruled by members of an…