do one overview - make that one short! have what the different peoples interests are in this one...just real quicky
one what people do at home - what they think about sustainabiity
one on peoples reseach native seed search - food water security in borderlands, activistm stuff. (myabe do native seed search separately)
one on soil - rewarhc the soil stuff
QUESTIONS TO GO THROUGH EACH ONE
PUT QUESTIONS IN EACH ONE - what could you do at home?
what do you tinkn about tucson having a rule like hyderabad?

Hi I am lisa schwartz ToL learning materials editor. Biodiversity aroudn the world is declining at an alarming rate. What can de do here at home in the sonoran desert to help stop this? There are many things we can do in our own backyards, and many different types of people getting involved in these efforst. This group of podcasts
features Brad Lancaster, Tucson Permaculture expert leading participants in a 2 day volunteer workshop  to use water-harvesting techniques to  re-vegetate an urban landscape adjoining the Nature Conservancy's headquarters and a busy street here in Tucson Arizona.  The participants included students in a University of Arizona Soil, Water and Environmental Science class on water harvesting taught by Professor James Riley, community  volunteers and peace corps fellows at the UA. This first episode is an overview of why waterharvesting promotes biodiversity, some of the techniques that can be utilized as well as the diverse perspectives and activities of the people that joined together to make this project happen.
Please view the additional podcasts for greater attention to the different aspects of this overview episode. 

participated in the workshop

Tucson, AZ.
The additional episodes contain longer segments of each of the focal areas.

http://cals.arizona.edu/SWES/people/cv/riley.htm
http://cals.arizona.edu/SWES/
http://grad.arizona.edu/peacecorp/home
http://www.harvestingrainwater.com/aboutbrad/
http://www.harvestingrainwater.com/

today i am intorducing several podcasts that center around a workshop given by Tucson permaculture expert Brad Lancaster. The 

arthworks keeps water where you want it. It is the easiest way to curb erosion and increase plant life.

Permaculture is a design system for using natural resources to the fullest potential.

. It seeks the creation of productive and sustainable ways of living by integrating ecology, landscape, organic gardening, architecture, agroforestry, green or ecological economics, and social systems. The focus is not on these elements themselves, but rather on the relationships created among them by the way they are placed together; the whole becoming greater than the sum of its parts. Permaculture is also about careful and contemplative observation of nature and natural systems, and of recognizing universal patterns and principles, then learning to apply these ‘ecological truisms’ to one’s own circumstances in all realms of human activity. There is substantial, but scattered evidence that many pre-Columbian New World cultures used techniques comparable to permaculture in the Amazon basin, in much of Central America, and in some parts of eastern