'Father says the earth got too hot underneath, like you do in bed sometimes, so it just hunched up its shoulders, and the sea had to slip off, like the blankets do off us, and the shoulder was left sticking out, and turned into dry land.

NPR: Excerpt: 'Five Children and It'

On a DVD created by the Permaculture Research Institute of Australia, Lawton shows us what happened when he took this method to places like Morocco and Jordan -- just 80 kilometers from the Dead Sea.

CNN: Making barren lands bountiful

He'd rather just eat his beef-tongue tacos or sea-urchin sushi than treat them like starlets on the red carpet.

CNN: Anthony Bourdain: 'We are food pornographers'

These include not just petroleum but also methane hydrates, white, sorbet-like compounds that exist in profusion under the sea, perhaps containing more energy in total than all known deposits of fossil fuels.

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