The PermaDesign Weblog, with Nate Downey and Melissa McDonald!
Archives from January 2017
Protect the Gila River
As one of the nations more endangered rivers, the Gila stands as a reminder of a time without dams and diversions. Our last free flowing river in this enchanted land lives under the constant threat of development. The people over at Protect the Gila River work to keep the Gila as it is meant to be.
01/06/2017 | (0) Comments
Santa Fe Gets EPA Grant
It's a big day for water harvesting in my home town. The EPA just formally announced its plan to work with five cities across the country on a new toolkit that will streamline low-impact development and the application of green infrastructure strategies. Santa Fe is the only city in the western United States to be selected, and the average rainfall in the four other cities is over four times greater than our own. I'm excited that my wife is the City of Santa Fe's River and Watershed Coordinator during this momentous time and that we have a mayor who understands that the importance and simple practicality of water harvesting.
Here is an article in the Albuquerque Journal about the event.
01/06/2017 | (0) Comments
SLIDE 5: PermaDesign
And we move swiftly to PermaDesign, the landscape architecture firm that Melissa McDonald and I created after she got her RLA and I published Roof-Reliant Landscaping and Harvest the Rain.
01/04/2017 | (0) Comments
Make America Smart Again
From my latest article in The Santa Fe New Mexican :
Friends are still freaking out about the looming Trump years, but it’s time to stop lamenting. The season for shutting the trap of that pissed-off voice in your head is now. Instead, replace it with permaculture’s fortuitous phrase, “The problem is the solution.”
01/02/2017 | (0) Comments
