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Waterless

Posted on June 27, 2008February 18, 2020 by aandh

  Desertification in China. Image by Benoit Aquin. Today, some additional facts about water, or its absence. As an opening frame of reference, it takes 150 gallons of water to make a loaf of our daily bread. The North China Plain is a desert, some of which is natural but much of which is man made. Herders … Continue reading Waterless →

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A sustainable city is one that finds the means (forms, shapes, structures and activities) to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

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"We have become so used to living among surroundings in which beauty has little or no place that we do not realise what a remarkable and unique feature the ugliness of modern life is." Raymond Unwin

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