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Via Arizona Public Media

There is no resource more precious and more endangered in Southern Arizona than water. Each of us uses an average of 96 gallons of potable water per day.

Faced with uncertainty about how climate change will affect our water resources, Pima County and the City of Tucson recently formed a joint Water and Wastewater Oversight Committee to plan for a sustainable water future.

Producer Laura Markowitz follows the flow of wastewater in Pima County and describes a water-saving alternative to flushing that has been embraced by a neighborhood in Marana.

This is the neatest little garden cabin… Best part, I can see applying a lot of these little tricks as additions to our house plan.

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Covers obvious, less obvious and not obvious ways to cook without an oven. Pretty funny, I know one of the not obvious ways – car engine – since we used that method in the Army a lot of the time.

Everything you need to know about what you drink – Planet Green

Damn interesting article and videos!

Great piece on Permaculture. It’s aimed at Australia, but there’s some fantastic ideas and information contained in it so it’s worth the watch.

From My 2 Second Shelf Life. Some of these are really good ideas!

Coffee filters …… Who knew! And you can buy 1,000 at the Dollar Tree for almost nothing even the
large ones.

1. Cover bowls or dishes when cooking in the microwave. Coffee filters make excellent covers.

2. Clean windows, mirrors, and chrome… Coffee filters are lint-free so they’ll leave windows sparkling.

3. Protect China by separating your good dishes with a coffee filter between each dish.

4. Filter broken cork from wine. If you break the cork when opening a wine bottle, filter the wine through a coffee filter.

5. Protect a cast-iron skillet. Place a coffee filter in the skillet to absorb moisture and prevent rust.

6. Apply shoe polish. Ball up a lint-free coffee filter.

7. Recycle frying oil. After frying, strain oil through a sieve lined with a coffee filter.

8. Weigh chopped foods. Place chopped ingredients in a coffee filter on a kitchen scale.

9. Hold tacos. Coffee filters make convenient wrappers for messy foods.

10. Stop the soil from leaking out of a plant pot. Line a plant pot with a coffee filter to prevent the soil from going through the drainage holes.

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An Earthship is a radically sustainable home made of recycled materials.

* Electricity is from the sun with solar panels and wind with wind modules.
* Water is caught on the roof from rain and snow melt.
* Sewage is treated on site in interior and external botanical planters.
* Heating and Cooling is from the sun and the earth.
* Food is grown inside and outside.

Earthships are constructed with recycled materials and perform as expected in any part of the world, in any climate and still provide you with what you need to survive.

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