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…
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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…
June 3, 2023
Listen to this podcast by Living on Earth, National Public Radio’s Environmental News Magazine, on how our Dunbar/Spring neighborhood, and its Neighborhood Foresters, harvest over a million gallons per year of stormwater from…
June 2, 2023
In this video, Brad Lancaster shows how native food-bearing trees and understory vegetation planted within or beside passive rain- and stormwater-harvesting rain gardens is able to shade and cool the neighborhood street by…
May 3, 2023
We planted over 60,000 gallons of annual stormwater, 36 native food-bearing trees and bush trees, & 114 multi-use native understory plants in this year’s annual neighborhood rain & native food forest planting. See…
December 12, 2022
A case study planting rain and neighborhood native food forests to grow regenerative abundance By Brad Lancaster (Author) and Karryn Olson (Editor) with The Regenerative Economy Collaborative I get up predawn to pee,…
November 29, 2022
Brad Lancaster HarvestingRainwater.com Check out the newly published paper “Green stormwater infrastructure in a semi-arid climate: The influence of rain gardens on soil moisture over seven years” by Aaron T. Kauffman of Southwest…
November 22, 2022
by Brad Lancaster To address dwindling Colorado River water supplies, upon which many communities depend, western cities are committing to reducing ornamental grass and its associated water use (figures 1 and 2). That’s…
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September 24, 2022
by Brad Lancaster My heart sinks, but I also want to act, when I read of, and experience, suffering as is often the case with worsening climate conditions, such as how my desert…