I’m honored to announce that my new, expanded 2nd edition of Volume 1 has received yet another two literary awards! They are: Foreword Reviews’ 2013 Book of the Year Award Finalist: botya.forewordreviews.com/finalists/2013/home-and-garden 2014…
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May 2, 2014
Brad Lancaster wins 2014 Bicycle Commuter of the Year along with Juan Mungia Said of Brad upon presentation of the award: For years Brad has lived car free. He conducts all his local…
December 18, 2013
by Brad Lancaster © 2013 www.HarvestingRainwater.com www.SunAndShadeHarvesting.com I heat, light, and power my home primarily with the sun, and cool it primarily with shadows and natural ventilation. Free/passive strategies are at the core of…
December 16, 2013
This year’s release of the updated, expanded Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 1, 2nd Edition has won three literary awards: * Best Indie Books of 2013 by Kirkus Reviews in the…
October 28, 2013
by Brad Lancaster © 2013 www.HarvestingRainwater.com This past September I had the great pleasure of teaching (and learning more about) ancient and modern water and sun harvesting in the Puglia region of southern…
September 27, 2013
by Brad Lancaster © 2013 www.HarvestingRainwater.com I designed the sizing and placement of the roof overhang/gutter and windows on my garottage (one-car garage turned cottage) in Tucson, Arizona, to let the sun’s rays…
September 12, 2013
From September 25 to October 8, 2013, I’ll be conducting an autographed-book giveaway for U.S.-based book readers on the website GoodReads. (Note: To get in the running for one of 5 free copies,…
May 28, 2013
by Brad Lancaster © 2013 www.HarvestingRainwater.com You don’t need to own property to engage with, harvest, cycle, and enhance your local resources—and your potential to live collaboratively with them. Below are some ideas…
January 28, 2013
by Brad Lancaster © 2013 www.HarvestingRainwater.com Climate change is real, it’s well underway, and we need to step up and make it a major part of the national dialog now, as we all…
September 22, 2011
by Brad Lancaster www.HarvestingRainwater.com A watershed is “that area of land, a bounded hydrological system, within which all living things are inextricably linked by their common water course and where, as humans settled, simple…