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1. Xeriscaping: Garden designs for a dry climate| xeriscape| xeriscaping Xeriscaping is a garden design that reduces water use. Info on Xeriscaping to design drought-tolerant landscapes. A xeriscape garden can be both practical and beautiful. Create your own Australian garden, a xeriscape garden, and be the proud own...
2. Drought Tolerant Plants for Low Water Landscapes When most people think xeriscaping - the use of drought-tolerant, low water-use plants - they think cactus.  And who wants a yard full of prickly, unfriendly cactus?  (Yes, I know some of you do.  This page is for those who don't...me...
3. Rainwater Harvesting Rainwater Harvesting Systems (RHS) can be found in all the great civilizations throughout history. In industrialized countries, rainwater harvesting systems have been developed for the purpose of reducing water bills, watering crops, or providing dr...
4. Xeriscaping| Xeriscaping| All you need to know about xeriscaping| conserve water with xeriscaping Xeriscaping refers to landscaping preserves water and helps protect our beautiful and fragile environment. The fundamental principles of Xeriscaping include planning & design, soil analysis, practical turf areas, plant selection, irrigation, mulc...
5. Water Conservation Water Conservation - Something most Central European and North American people did not really think about much .... until recently. Fortunately, it's now slowly entering into everybody's concience, that water is a finite good and if we don't pay close...
6. Xeriscaping   Xeriscaping is the practice of landscaping using drought-tolerant plants. The term derives from the Greek word, xeros, meaning "dry," and scape, meaning "scene". Hence, xeriscaping literally means dryscaping, or "dry s...
7. J.G. Ballard J.G. Ballard is a British author, whose writing inhabits a space in science fiction or speculative fiction that is all his own.  His stories often focus on characters having an inner journeys or metamorphoses acted out against a juxtaposing back...
8. Weather Instruments for Weather Forecasting Being a weather forecaster is not all that difficult if you have the right tools for the job. Which tools are appropriate? Take a look at this lens and find out.
9. America's Weather and Climate The weather and nature - it is always changing. By humanity or on its own, it changes constantly. We never think about it, but it is in control of itself and we are at its mercy - whether we like it or not. So let's learn how we can live with it.
10. Jeparit, Victoria, Australia. A microcosm of climate change. The small country town of Jeparit is a fascinating Australian location, rich in history but dying of thirst. Though Jeparit is the birthplace of Australia's longest serving Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies, Jeparit is suffering chronic and acute s...
11. Vintage 2007 One of the charms of wine is that every vintage is different, even every wine is different. True wine lovers (not wine snobs) look for differences. That's what makes wine such a wonderful thing to talk about, to taste and to enjoy. Well made wines will...
12. SAVE MY LAKE PLEASE For as long as I can remember, growing up in Atlanta,the news every summer reflected a 3 way water war between Florida, Alabama & Georgia over Lake Lanier. Lake Lanier is the primary water source for most of the Atlanta area. The primary source of tr...
13. Holiday in rural Australia Make yourself at home anywhere in the world, live like a local and stay for FREE. 20,000 Worldwide Listings While I was holidaying at my brother in-law's property in a little town called Booroorban, I reflected how I had lived most of my life in re...
14. 4 Hour Work Week Diet: Why it works with native foods On his blog, Tim Ferris of 4 Hour Work Week fame shares a variation of the "slow carb" diet as used by Dean Karnazes, that promises I'll loose 20lbs. of fat in 30 days. I'll let you know about the 20lbs. but the diet is a great diet for those who wa...
15. Green Gardens save water, wildlife,and work! Conserve water in the southwest. Add fragrance and texture. Save endangered species. You have probably heard of the growing use of plants that are native to your area. Over thousands of years, native species adapted to the particular soil, rainfall...
16. Xeriscaping - Methods and Principles of Xeriscaping Xeriscaping (low water use landscaping) isn't necessarily a design style but rather a practice or method. And while xeriscape is most always related to Southwest or Desert landscape design, we see it's practices and principles can be applied to most...
17. How to use less water in the garden
18. What You Can Do - Global Warming Ever notice the climate jumps in the past 5 years?  Ever wonder why there are so many hurricanes, typhoons, tsunamis in the world?  There is one reason that would explain it all, but would you believe it if someone told you about it. ...
19. The Benefits of Rainwater Harvesting Rainwater reuse offers a number of benefits. -Provides inexpensive supply of water; -Augments drinking water supplies; -Reduces stormwater runoff and pollution; -Reduces erosion in urban environments; -Provides water that needs little treatment for...