Permaculture

[Bloodeagle]

PS. Bloodeagle, are those tabs of acid as your avatar?

You got it Toyota! That's Orange Sunshine blotter on there!

Deserts can support a surprising amount of biomass when proper water collection and conservation is used with sustainable agricultural practices.
Through rain water collection using cisterns and sand wadi's, use of gray-water for irrigation and proper soil building techniques, anyone can have an oasis in the desert.

[Aemma]

BTW, it should definitely be mentioned that these concepts are not limited to deserts or any other specific kind of environment. It's about creating sustainable ecosystems wherever humans happen to live.

One of the reasons I posted this thread was because I remembered a conversation I had with someone about Detroit, and how these principles might help "save" struggling industrial cities that grew to rely on outside food sources which I think is an incredibly interesting concept.

Another thinker you may enjoy is Carolyn Steel, author of The Hungry City, an architect out of the UK who has been examining the issue of how cities feed themselves. I listened to a podcast of hers last night and she's brilliant.

I've a good book on permaculture on a smaller scale: Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture by Toby Hemenway. It's very good and offers a wealth of information for the home gardener.

[la bombe]

Another thinker you may enjoy is Carolyn Steel, author of The Hungry City, an architect out of the UK who has been examining the issue of how cities feed themselves. I listened to a podcast of hers last night and she's brilliant.

Oh, thanks for reminding me! One of my friends linked me to a video of her long ago but I never got around to watching it

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[Daos]

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[The Lawspeaker]

About Sepp Holzer.
But if you feel lazy you might just as well enjoy the full program here:

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More about the man can be found here (in German).