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Old 06-10-2015, 11:30 AM
 
Location: Coolidge, AZ
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Hate the heat island effect of all the concrete, buildings, roads and air conditioners pumping hot air into the city center?
Plant lawns, lush trees; Forget fretting about the water use they take. It's well worth it and isn't as expensive as you think.

Why don't major stores/ retailers install decent sized trees in the parking islands like other cities? It's because the idiots don't design the system to allow the trees to get water, aeration, and maintenance/fertilization.

Case in point: Hot Sacramento CA has an ordinance that requires 50% of the parking lots to be shaded by trees. Imagine that happening in hotter Phoenix. The political will is not there.
There is absolutely plenty of Grey water to do so with. These rocks people toss in their yards and call landscaping also contribute to the heat island effect. It drives me nuts that everything is brown and concrete. Beautify your cities AZ!
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Old 06-10-2015, 12:05 PM
 
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There is absolutely plenty of Grey water to do so with. These rocks people toss in their yards and call landscaping also contribute to the heat island effect. It drives me nuts that everything is brown and concrete. Beautify your cities AZ!

It is the desert, it is beautiful. Desert landscaping is beautiful and appropriate for this part of the country.

Beautiful doesn't equal "green" in all places, and does not belong in areas where water is less plentiful (like the desert!).
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Old 06-10-2015, 08:13 PM
 
Location: Coolidge, AZ
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It is the desert, it is beautiful. Desert landscaping is beautiful and appropriate for this part of the country.

Beautiful doesn't equal "green" in all places, and does not belong in areas where water is less plentiful (like the desert!).
Do you really have to be my polar opposite on everything?
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Old 06-11-2015, 01:14 AM
 
Location: Arizona
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I have a swamp cooler works well until July 4th then we switch to AC usually. My wife grew up in Phoenix 1970's no AC.
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Old 06-11-2015, 01:35 AM
 
Location: 78745
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I think it would be easier to live in Phoenix in the summer time without air conditioning than to live in Minnesota in the winter without heat.
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Old 06-11-2015, 07:29 AM
 
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I think it would be easier to live in Phoenix in the summer time without air conditioning than to live in Minnesota in the winter without heat.
Best quote in the entire thread right there.
Sooooo true.
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Old 06-11-2015, 07:35 AM
 
Location: Houston, TX
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anybody want to trade places?
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Old 06-11-2015, 09:29 AM
 
Location: Coolidge, AZ
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Best quote in the entire thread right there.
Sooooo true.
Absolutely false actually. 2 words. Fire and layers of clothes.
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Old 06-11-2015, 09:42 AM
 
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Do you really have to be my polar opposite on everything?
It's not about you LOLOL

The desert is the desert, and is beautiful. To try to make it look like something else is just not right.
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Old 06-11-2015, 09:52 AM
 
Location: Sonoran Desert
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Absolutely false actually. 2 words. Fire and layers of clothes.
Now that is an image for you. Millions of Minnesotans sitting around fires layered in animal furs. Oh, the air pollution. How long would those forests last? Nope, comfort aside, humans are far, far better adapted for heat than cold. Reality: few of us would last long without the technology that has made it possible for us to grow to such huge numbers on the earth.
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