We climb the small hill that rises above Javier’s 10-year-old ‘acentamientos humanos’ community of Bellavista, and it proves difficult to breathe because of the high humidity. With a reminder that both Panama Canal attempts surely cost over 30,000 lives, one cannot help but side with human history, and so also with these dreamers. But it works! By logging into your account, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy, and to the use of cookies as described therein. Another problem with many methods and attempted solutions, is that they are not sustainable. Whereas it was impossible to see more than 2 metres ahead on the hill above Bellavista, here, a little lower, the air is relatively clear, and what fog there is is ‘dry fog’ – the droplets are simply too small to coalesce on the nets. Great news, Magally, I say. “For small rural villages and isolated communities, it can be a lifeline,” he says. With the help of German NGO Alimón, the community has built reservoirs and tanks, and constructed large plant-shade nets using steel cables at strategic points on the top of a hill to trap the precious fog. So, besides using precious groundwater, expensive energy is also used. This will be undesirable land, usually on a sand dune and certainly without any water, sanitary system or electricity, somewhere on the outskirts of the city. It is labor-intensive, and that’s why it cannot be done on a great scale. With this method, a field of small pine trees develops, and after some years, they grow well; The same method is repeated with Eucalyptus (although I prefer to use local trees from the natural habitat); This is an impression of a ‘walking dune’ area. The Sahara Forest Project is the brainchild of Charlie Paton, Michael Pawlyn and Bill Watts. Shant, interesting, at least there is something we can do in the dessert for people who live there altough maybe they have their own life style. I emailed Patton, but no response. sugar cane or trees - that are able to produce biofuel. You will never get the electricity out of the Sahara to useful places at a competitive cost, and you will never get Sahelians to buy food that costs 10 times as much as the food they produce themselves. The development team expects that the Sahara Forest Project would span 20 hectares and cost about 80 million euros. Desert greening has the potential to help solve global … We all know the history of Carthage and Egypt. Nowadays, some companies and foundations start to reforest huge areas of fertile land with products - e.g. Fresh water produced by the Seawater Greenhouses can be used to grow a crops such jathropha, which can easily be turned into biofuel. Migrants construct homes from 3-ply or bamboo sheeting, in time get hooked up to the electricity supply by dealing with privately owned power companies, and eventually can apply for land title. It is now in the middle of the desert; but at its time of construction, it was able to support and house over 30.000 people. The term "desert greening" is intended to apply to both cold and hot arid and semi-arid deserts. There are so many of them. Are not deserts part of the environment. You’ll finally have water. And try they will, _because_ they are unreasonable. The technique is incredibly useful for small communities, up to say 500-1000 people, says FogQuest’s Bob Shemenauer, who pioneered the technique in Chile’s Atacama desert. It is a planting technology, not a way of irrigation. In as little as four years, the trees will be large enough to trap the fog themselves, producing a self-sustaining run-off that will replenish ancient wells and provide water for the community here for the first time in 500 years. Lima is a strange location for the country’s capital, the world’s largest desert city after Cairo. Make electricity from the sun, sweet water from salt water, habitats from compressed sand and a haven for refugees to build a new eco society. With the Waterboxx. Concentrated solar power is a technology that utilizes thousands of mirrors to focus sunlight upon a water boiler, heating it to over 1,000 degrees fahrenheit. Anyways, I'm trying to get a hold of the "trio of entrepeneurs" to pitch my idea. This project is very good. but could you informe me about the countries interested by this project in all the world.THANK YUO, Does anybody know whether the project is represented at the Horti Fair in Amsterdam? These areas aren’t suited for the plantation of trees. How Planting Trees Created a Desert. Yet this attempt discovered where the weak planning points were, and showed others the ultimate road to success. An extra advantage of the Groasis Waterboxx® plant cocoon is that it helps us to prevent fertile land grabbing. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out /  It is often that way with projects here,” she says, pointing out the half-finished road. In Tunisia, there is a Colosseum in EL Jem. They must be pretty busy. More areas get drier and drier. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. This way of restoring deserts or rocky areas, is very cost attractive; it is also very sustainable as it uses water from the air, and doesn’t use electricity and expensive energy. The problem is worst in the 1800 slum communities of migrants, like Bellavista, which are home to some 2 million people.

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