These images illustrate how I aligned the design of the roof overhang of my garottage (garage-turned-cottage), its retractable awning, window placement and sizing, east-facing porch, and sculpture with the seasonally changing path of…
This is one of my favorite buildings because of how well—and how simply—it has been designed in relationship with the sun’s seasonally changing path in the sky. I’ve always found it to be…
These photographs were taken at various ancient sites on the summer and winter solstices to illustrate these cultures’ wise use of passive-solar design and practice of solar rights. I hope these inspire you…
Good and bad examples of downspout inlet screens… Check out the following award-winning books available at deep discount direct from the author (Volume 1 has a set of guiding principles specific to the…
Examples harnessing the potential of free, on-site greywater… For more Greywater harvesting image galleries & videos Greywater harvesting resources Greywater harvesting case studies Info on how to design and implement such systems see…
De-pave and re-enliven… Daylighting the Cheong Gye Cheon River in Seoul, South Korea Daylighting one city block of buried waterwayat Los Angeles Ecovillage, California Daylighting section of Dolph Creek at Headwaters Project in…
How we’re harvesting, cycling, and playing with multiple, free, on-site waters and what they grow… Before & After photos… For more…
Collaborating with rainwater’s potential… For more… Rainwater harvesting resources Rainwater harvesting case studies See additional image galleries here and learn how to design and implement many of these systems and more in the…
Directing pavement runoff to boost pavement-side life, while increasing available rainfall multifold… For more…
Transforming life- and resource-eroding dirt roads to generators of life and resources… See here for more water harvesting from dirt roads and other strategies in Altar Valley, Arizona For more