#HarvestingRainwater with Brad Lancaster: How to Create Livable Desert Cities

by Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't
Jun 9, 2026

Part 1 of a 3 Video Series

"In this episode we see the incredible work that Brad Lancaster and his community are doing to make the #DunbarSpring Neighborhood in #TucsonAZ a cooler, more pleasant and human-friendly place to live by using plants as infrastructure and creating a #FoodForest using #NativePlants that are adapted to deal with the desert heat perfectly because they evolved there.

"This video shows us how what Brad and his community have done serve as a model as to what could be down to make cities all over the globe more livable, illustrating how human development and nature do not have to be mutually exclusive. Filming this video and seeing that Brad and his people have done made me feel in something I haven't felt in a long time : hope."

Watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wN6t8xwpYZ8

#SolarPunkSunday #ClimateChangeAdaptation #Rainwater #GreenerCities #Basins #NativeVegetation #WaterStructures #LocalEcology #HeatIslands

The Cygnus XL cargo spacecraft is pictured in the grips of the Canadarm2 robotic arm 🌎🌑🧑‍🚀🪐

#Artemis #Artemis2 #ArtemisII #Basins #Craters #Earth #Earthrise #Eclipse

⏩ 8 new pictures from NASA (Image Library) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListFiles?limit=8&user=OptimusPrimeBot&ilshowall=1&offset=20260414220724

#Antarctica’s #melting surprises researchers https://cosmosmagazine.com/news/antarcticas-melting-surprises-researchers/

Wang concludes that the #scientific community should pay more attention to such coastal #glacier #basins. “Complete #disintegration” of the four glaciers in East Antarctica could trigger global #sea #level rise of more than 7m, he says.

#climatechange #climatecrisis

'Give this to Ruia, Rebecca' Mother calls 'She can rinse the soap out'. From series: Washday at the pa

#Rebecca #third #moe_tahurangi #Matapihi #Kōtuia #Laundry #Mothers #Basins #Houses #Yards #Children #Māori #silver #photographicgelatin #photographicpaper #workprints #gelatinsilverprints #NorthIsland

http://api.digitalnz.org/records/20375874/source

Tonight sister Janie helps to wash the younger children. From the series: Washday at the pa
Mutu is bending over the wash bowl as Jimmy and Janie sit by the bowl on front of the fireplace.

#Janie #Jimmy #third #moe_tahurangi #Matapihi #Kōtuia #Basins #Cleaning #Bathing #Children #Furniture #Livingrooms #Māori #silver #photographicgelatin #photographicpaper #workprints #gelatinsilverprints #NorthIsland

http://api.digitalnz.org/records/20375858/source

Longoteme, Tonga 1963
Woman (mother) and four young children. Woman sitting on a low wooden stool dressing a child (right). A young boy (centre left) squats on the stool holding a coconut. A young girl is in the foregound and another boy is partly obscured behind her. They are directly in front of the entry to a fale.

#Longoteme #Tonga #Tongan #moe_tahurangi #Matapihi #Kōtuia #Children #Coconuts #Women #Tables #Basins #photographicgelatin #photographicpaper #silver #gelatinsilverprints #worksofart #Contemporary #Tongatapu

http://api.digitalnz.org/records/168299/source