Brad Lancaster shows you why salt-free rainwater is the best water for manufactured evaporative coolers (sometimes called “swamp coolers”), and living evapotranspiring coolers in the video below… You never get any salt or…
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May 21, 2022
See the video above was shot May, 2022, shortly after the passive water-harvesting earthworks/basins were completed (plantings yet to come), and the morning after the basins harvested all the nighttime flood flow from…
February 10, 2022
By Brad Lancaster with gratitude to Bill Zeedyk for his edits, feedback, and mentoring www.HarvestingRainwater.com Starting January 2012, Bill Zeedyk and Steve Carson directed the largely volunteer-installed on-the-ground work in a collaborative conservation/restoration…
January 12, 2022
People see that dramatic positive change is possible when—after we implement water-harvesting plantings and restoration efforts—we post signs with photos documenting conditions before we planted regenerating abundance. Place the signs where the ‘before’…
October 16, 2021
by Brad Lancaster, www.HarvestingRainwater.com and David Omick, www.Omick.net The following principles for policy change were derived from and informed by the experiences of David Omick, Pearl Mast, and Brad Lancaster in working…
October 3, 2021
Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 1, 3rd Edition wins the Silver Medal in the 2021 Readers’ Favorite Book Awards Readers’ Favorite Book Awards review of Volume 1: Reviewed by Mamta Madhavan…
July 4, 2021
By Brad Lancaster www.HarvestingRainwater.com Like much of the country, drought with high temperatures is drying us out; stressing many shade plants, and threatening our cooling soil-carbon sponges. Yet rain is predicted—so we do…
April 4, 2021
by Brad Lancaster www.HarvestingRainwater.com In 2014 and 2016 I had the honor of being able to travel to Zimbabwe to learn from indigenous water harvesters and the amazing people with Muonde Trust, and…
March 27, 2021
Rainwater Spiritual is a sweet rain of a water-harvesting song written and performed by Gabrielle Pietrangelo (though I had the honor of giving a minor assist with a couple of the lyrics). Check…
January 15, 2021
I just released the new, full-color, 2nd edition of Volume 2 in eBook format. This makes the book far more affordable for those outside the U.S., since there are no insanely costly international…