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Dry Facts
Deserts cover a quarter of the earth, nourished by over grazing, poor land management and changing climate. The world population is 7 billion and rising, so available space is getting a little tight. Grassland ecosystem pioneer Allan Savory is on a mission to tackle desertification by rethinking land and livestock management in a holistic approach that takes into account nature’s complexity and our own as well.
»The most massive perfect storm is bearing down upon us«
Allan Savory, TED2013
Photos: Sagel & Krzykowski, video: TED.com
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The Great Gyre
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, or the Pacific Trash Vortex, is a vast mass of marine litter trapped in the vortex of currents of the North Pacific Gyre, creating a concentrated “plastic soup” of fine particles, which is increasing at an alarming rate and killing millions of organisms annually.
If, however, you view this unsavoury mass as a resource, it makes sense to harvest it. UK designers Studio Swine and Kieren Jones proposed a “Sea Chair” made from ocean plastic harvested by a trawler a couple of years ago and now household eco-detergent company Ecover have taken up the idea to produce ocean-harvested plastic packaging for their biodegradable detergents.
»You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.«
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Pass the Salt
The city of Adelaide in Australia, located in the driest state on the driest continent on earth, has recently invested 1.8 billion AUD in a new desalination plant with the capacity to produce up to 300 million litres of safe drinking water per day from seawater – approximately half the city’s water needs. But what will happen to all the salt?
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