re: #259 Ian G.

I’m pretty sure the Navajos didn’t live where Phoenix is. They lived (and still do) up by Flagstaff, where the high elevation makes for a much more moderate climate. I think the name of the Phoenix Valley in their language translates as “place where it’s too hot”.

Well, yes. They knew not to get out and work in that kind of heat, also. They also knew they had to conserve water in cisterns and the like and grow drought resistant plants. Not to mention, before the Spanish arrived, the natives did not have horses or any means of transportation—they walked, everywhere.

re: #268 wrenchwench

Yeah, the lawn-growers should go. But living in the desert can be done sustainably, and it’s beautiful.

This is desert.

Unless there’s a spring underground to tap into for a well, ummm, no.