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Swale on contour
Swale on Contour Swale on contour (pictured left) between nitrogen fixing trees and date palms at the gently sloping Greening the Desert site in Jordan. The line of trees to the right of the photo...
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CO2 pyramids
In 2006 in ‘the revenge of gaia’ Lovelock writes that if the world’s annual 27 Giga tonnes (Gt) of CO2 emissions were stored as frozen CO2 at – 80°C it would form a mountain one mile high and twelve...
View ArticleGreen Frontier!
Welcome to the blog of the Green Frontier website. This area will contain general entries before they are catalogued into toolkit items. The purpose of the blog is to post items of interest and...
View ArticleReforest Haiti
Haiti could be rebuilt and reforested at the same time, turning it from the poorest nation in the Americas into a tropical paradise. Haiti is a tropical island next to Cuba. With a population of...
View ArticlePopulation for a reforested Sahara
Population and land area The sahara is 9,000,000 square kilometres or 900,000,000 hectares. The population of the world is predicted to stabilize at 9,000,000,000 by 2050. If the entire world...
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350ppm pyramid illustration
It takes a lot of wood to store enough carbon from carbon dioxide (CO2) to get the atmospheric CO2 down to 350ppm (methodology described in the CO2 Pyramids post). In these illustrations, the smaller...
View ArticleThesis completed – What is the potential for reducing atmospheric CO2 levels...
I have finally completed my MSc thesis: What is the potential for reducing atmospheric CO2 levels through solar-desalinated irrigated vegetation of the Sahara and Arabian deserts? The purpose of this...
View ArticleLED Lamps and Ecoaffluent Convergence
To help explain this concept consider for example the use of kerosene lamps in Sub-Saharan Africa and India. A friend of ours who is based in Burkina Faso has explained that very poor people can spend...
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London Green Fair
We’ll be at the free festival in Regents Park on the 4th and 5th of June. Visit us in the Permaculture zone to find out about eco-affluent convergence. At 6pm on Sunday we’ll be talking about...
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Competition – next steps
Many thanks to all our fabulous eco-affluent photographers! Winners of the eco-affluent next steps competition are … Winner of the main prize: Karl D from Suffolk with his photos, Breakfast, Plan Bee...
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