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‘A living pantry’: how an urban food forest in Arizona became a model for climate action

A decades-old neighborhood project in Tucson provides food to residents as well as shade to cool streets in the third-fastest warming city in the US… Read the whole story.

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Millions lack access to running water. Is the solution hiding in plain sight?

TUCSON — In the 2000s, Brad Lancaster started making illegal cuts into curbs in his Dunbar Spring neighborhood here, allowing storm water to flow into street side basins to water […]

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Like Water in the Desert

Over the past century, we’ve transformed the arid lands of the American west into year-round, well-irrigated agricultural powerhouses. Today, fruits, nuts, and nearly all of our leafy greens are grown […]

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Neighborhood foresters work to beautify their slice of the Tucson community

You might think Brad Lancaster is pulling your leg when he tells you he’s a “neighborhood forester” in the cactus-studded desert city of Tucson. Not at all. Lancaster and about […]