Re-greening Las Vegas

About This Project

From the time of the first settlers up until the mid-2000s, people in Las Vegas had been trying to build an oasis in the desert. Using the water resources and what they knew, they were trying to create more green life and livability in Las Vegas. However... in the past five years, due to NGOs, tax-free foundations funded by billionaires, United Nations initiatives, and confusing, contradictory and frankly hypocritical practices, Las Vegas has been losing green at an alarming rate. Not just grass, but trees as well. This is not just making Las Vegas less beautiful, it's also jeopardizing Las Vegas' ability to viably continue. The secret to an abundant Las Vegas is not less green, but more green. Re-greening initiatives all over the world proved that deserts can be reclaimed and made green with improvements to local rainfall, cooling, and agricultural production. From cutting down the sacred trees in front of Bellagio to make way for F1, to paying citizens to remove their grass, there has been a war on life in Las Vegas, starting with the most vulnerable form of life: plant life. Meanwhile, the water from the Colorado River is used by: * private corporations to grow alfalfa in desert Arizona to sell to Saudi Arabia in some sort of strange arrangement * private corporate farmers to grow crops in the California desert that are then sold for extreme profit that otherwise could not grow there And, Las Vegas has a very tiny allotment of Colorado water which it doesn't even use completely. If we want Vegas to last, we need to think differently about green spaces, water, waste, and our own food production. We are looking for people who want to roll back the process of desertifying Vegas to make it blossom once again. Join the site and use the contact form if you'd like to get involved. Related: - Composting Vegas - Las Vegas community farming - Las Vegas water usage

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