Reduce flooding and hazardous winter ice patches, while providing free irrigation to grow more cooling summer shade that also cleans our air and water. By directing stormwater runoff (and plowed or shoveled snow)…
November 8, 2024
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September 7, 2024
Brad Lancaster shows you how to get big water savings by directing your household drain water out to the landscape for free irrigation.
June 9, 2024
by Brad Lancaster, HarvestingRainwater.com For over three decades common high-quality three-way diverter valves, such as Jandy Valve and Pentair, made for swimming pools and spas, have been used with great success in pioneering…
May 15, 2024
We planted over 45,000 gallons of annual stormwater, 45 native food-bearing trees and bush trees, & 108 multi-use native understory plants in this year’s annual neighborhood rain & native food forest planting. See…
April 24, 2024
Listen to this Radio 2050 interview with Brad Lancaster and its sweet tunes to learn more about flourishing efforts such as rain-irrigated neighborhood food forestry, harvesting roof runoff for domestic water, greywater harvesting,…
December 16, 2023
The Turkish edition has been published by TÜBİTAK Bilim ve Toplum Başkanlığı. You can purchase it in the link below:https://yayinlar.tubitak.gov.tr/one-cikanlar/1403-1676-yagmur-suyu-hasadi.html#/1-basim_sayisi-1_basim Many thanks to the @tubitakkitaplar publishing team, translator Emre Rona, and istanbul.permakultur.kolektifi for…
August 29, 2023
Light colored exterior walls—exposed to full sun—are over 25˚F (13˚C) cooler than darker colored walls; while shaded walls (whatever the color) are over 45˚F (25˚C) degrees cooler than walls exposed to the full…
August 12, 2023
Brad Lancaster shows us dramatic pre-sunrise temperature differences of paved and unpaved areas in the urban environment, so you can see what heats us up, and what cools us down (and by how…
August 7, 2023
See how we harvest over 30,000 gallons (114,000 liters) of roof runoff in tree basins to passively shade and cool the building from which we harvest the water. This system was created in…
June 9, 2023
Download and/or view a high-resolution 2023 version of the map Then zoom in to see the details. Compare the 2023 version of the map to the originally released 2022 version (below)to see how…