Water, heat, and survival infrastructure. We cover the Colorado River crisis, urban heat islands, green infrastructure, coastal defense, drought management, ecosystem services, and climate adaptation. From acequia governance to bioswales, ecological systems are social systems.
3 articles
Urban Heat Islands: The Climate Crisis in Concrete
Cities are becoming furnaces. This essay traces how design, policy, and inequality create urban heat islands and proposes pragmatic, equity‑first interventions—shade, water, surface albedo, zoning reform, and community stewardship—to cool the most vulnerable neighborhoods.
November 14, 2025
The Water Barons: Drought as Market
Post-2026 Colorado River rules, a bilingual law of the ditch, and the cities that already know how to share. Every politics is water politics in disguise. Draw the United States by rivers and you get a biography of arguments: the Colorado's improbable slingshot through seven states and two nations;.
August 11, 2025
Solar Sovereignty in the Mojave
Ecological development for the Sonoran century—north and south of the line. Stand on a clear night above the borderlands and you will see two kinds of
August 7, 2025