neat green things: A Himalayan Village Builds Artificial Glaciers to Survive Global Warming [Slide Show]: Scientific American Slideshows

A Himalayan Village Builds Artificial Glaciers to Survive Global Warming [Slide Show]: Scientific American Slideshows

This is a brilliant use of local resources to solve a debilitating problem: a retired engineer uses local stones, which mountains have in abundance, to build walls which catch runoff from the shrinking glaciers, trapping the water so it can re-freeze into temporary glaciers that save the villages that are dependent on them! Like freezing reservoirs that keep the water from trickling away and helping no one. And it's incredibly low-tech. Amazing. Maybe he can show other people all over the world how to do this, and then some of the poorest people who are being hit first by glacial melt-off can be helped until something bigger-scale and be built.