“It was so desolate that one knoll was known then, and still is today, as the ‘hill of the only tree.’ The only water for growing vegetables was the runoff from a primitive shower house.” Christa Case Bryant with the very interesting story of the invention of the drip system (less water, more growth) and the other ways Israel defies drought.

+ The latest evidence of climate change is that Alaska is entering a new era of wildfires (confirming my suspicion that we will finally convince most Americans that climate change exists just moments before Earth explodes into a massive fireball).