Skip to Content.
Sympa Menu

permaculture - Re: [permaculture] A Permaculturists Perspective on 100 Year Floods

permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org

Subject: permaculture

List archive

Chronological Thread  
  • From: mIEKAL aND <qazingulaza@gmail.com>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] A Permaculturists Perspective on 100 Year Floods
  • Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 10:05:40 -0600

In the Kickapoo Valley of southwest Wisconsin, we've had 3 100 year floods
in the last 10 years and 9 of the 10 highest watermarks have been in the
last 10 years. I remain grateful that I chose to live up on the ridge...

~mIEKAL


On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 8:47 AM, Chris Carnevale
<c.s.carnevale@gmail.com>wrote:

> Jason, thanks for this excellent article on urban flood management. This
> is a big issue we're dealing with all the time here on the Southeast
> coast, with sea levels rising, and making antiquated drainage
> infrastructure obsolete. In Charleston, we already have a nice urban
> tree canopy but we could certainly improve how much impervious surface
> paves over the roadside vegetation.
>
> Chris Carnevale
>
> On 12/12/13, 9:05 PM, Jason Gerhardt wrote:
> > Here is a link to an article I recently wrote about the extreme flooding
> > that Colorado experienced this Fall and what a Permaculture Design
> response
> > to the event could look like. Continually pluggin' away to get people to
> > see water from a different perspective in Colorado...
> >
> >
> http://www.coloradopermaculture.com/seeding-sensible-solutions-in-a-world-of-extremes-a-permaculture-perspective-on-100-year-floods-and-beyond/
> >
> > Jason Gerhardt
> >
>
> _______________________________________________
> permaculture mailing list
> permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
> subscribe/unsubscribe|user config|list info|make a donation toward list
> maintenance:
> http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/permaculture
> message archives: https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/permaculture/
> Google message archive search:
> site: lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/permaculture [searchstring]
> Permaculture Institute USA http://permaculture.org
> How to permaculture your urban lifestyle
> http://www.ipermie.net
> Avant Geared http://www.avantgeared.com
> https://plus.google.com/+Avantgeared
> Permaculture: -- portal to an expanding global network of landtech
> pioneers -- who are designing ecological land use systems with integrated
> elements for synergy, sustainability, regeneration and enhanced
> nature-compatible human habitat
>




Archive powered by MHonArc 2.6.24.

Top of Page