Into the Fish’s Mouth
" Two years’ average rainfall fell in just three days. Permaculture came to their rescue. " The scenes following extreme rainfall events in Kerr County Texas, Cape Town South Africa, Kazakhstan, Hunan and Sichuan China, Venezuela, Austria, and New South Wales are apocalyptic. On July 4th, the Guadalupe River at Kerrville rose 31 feet in 90 minutes, sweeping away recreational campgrounds and summer camps along the river. The Jin River, flowing through Chengdu, originates from the Dujiangyan Irrigation System and is a tributary of the Min River. Image at left is from 2018 by Albert Bates. The image at right is July 4, 2025, from Chengdu Expat News. After watching one of the videos from Western China, I recalled conducting a month-long course in ecovillage design at the UNESCO Rural Development Center in Chengdu in September 2018. I paid ~$615 for food and boarding for 28 days. In March 2018, the Chinese Constitution was amended to add “the building of an e...
