Here’s a great piece about a guy who was able to produce a bumper crop on a vacant lot in Tuscon, Arizona by harvesting runoff from roofs and streets around the lot. It’s a nice bit of daydreaming for the wannabe urban farmer.

Here’s a map of the growth of his terraced gardens over the years, which I include because it’s a lovely small-multiple visualization:

Related Posts:

• Amanda’s in Berkeley (December, 2008)
• Cheap Housing – An even Better Airplane House (March, 2008)
• the big three got killed by babies (March, 2006)
• TED Talks: Humanity’s Violent History, Developing Rwanda, Redefining “Bioenergy” (December, 2007)
• Apple Releases Environmental Impact Analyses (October, 2008)

This entry was posted on Wednesday, January 7th, 2009 at 4:28 pm and is filed under doomsaying, environment, food, fuck you big oil, infoviz. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.