Every now and then I borrow The Earth Garden Water Book from the library and dream about the things I could do if I had a block of land. A few months ago I did this and came across swales. I loved the sound of the word and decided I wanted a swale. Unfortunately I [...]
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Swales Saving Water
Posted in Australia, books, tagged agriculture, permaculture, salinity, saving water, Water, World Vision on 17 December 2007 | 1 Comment »
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"We must head back towards zero. At one degree the genie is out of the bottle, at two degrees the bottle is broken"
– David Spratt (2009) "Time for a Plan B on climate?" Dissent, no.30, p.37
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I'm a librarian doing research, but my first love was science and as a kid I wanted to be an ecologist or botanist. Things got in the way and now I only "study" nature in my spare time. As the lazyst environmentalyst I write about what I do to try to ensure the nature of our world is still here for future generations.
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