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Forty per cent of global photosynthesis is now required to support human civilization. For better or worse, the world has become our garden, and we need to do a better job of tending it.

Almost all farming requires some form of irrigation, and on a global scale uses around 70 percent of the available freshwater to do so.

One is looking at whether you could move something other than water uphill—pebbles, for example. Another is working on a process that would do away with the hill but not the water: You pump water underground, keep it there under pressure, and then release it when you’re ready to turn a turbine. If this approach works, it would…

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‘Forest gardening’ is a prehistoric method of food production in many tropical areas. Robert Hart pioneered it in temperate climates and his work has been developed further by Patrick Whitefield and Martin Crawford, who runs the Agroforestry Research Trust.

Paul Stamets’s Mycelium Running – How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World (2005) is an invaluable resource for regenerative culture designers.