Harvesting Rainwater with Brad Lancaster: How to Create Livable Desert Cities (Part 1 of 4)

Channel: Crime Pays But Botany Doesn’t

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 Dunbar Spring Neighborhood in Tucson a cooler, more pleasant and human-friendly place to live by using plants as infrastructure and creating a food forest using native plants 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. For more on Brad and his community’s work: • S

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