See how this layout of trees and cisterns on the west of and house on the north of the garden create an afternoon Shade Trap when the cisterns and trees shade and cool…
December 23, 2021
December 3, 2021
This is a great example for cities everywhere, and beautiful street theater. Non-profit, TreePeople, put out a press release that a 1,500-year flood would hit a single residential property, but all would be…
A beautiful call to water harvesting by the Centre for Science and Environment in India.
Part 1 of 3 short videos from Sustainable World Media in which Brad talks about Water Harvesting and more
Using a sponge model as a demonstration tool, Brad Lancaster shows us the effectiveness of harvesting rain. Produced by Jill Cloutier and Carol Hirashima for the Creative Commons…. Spread the information!
A water-harvesting overview highlighting some of the strategies implemented at the Lancaster homestead to harvest street runoff, roof runoff (with simple filtration), and greywater. See Brad’s award-winning books, Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and…
This new Arizona Public Media video/story on a rain-jar cooperative shows how rain-irrigated trees are bringing life—in many varied forms—back to the Dunbar/Spring neighborhood.
December 2, 2021
A short, sweet film featuring Greg Peterson of the Urban Farm, Ryan Wood of Watershed Management Group, Ken Singh of Singh Farms, and Brad Lancaster talking about place-based, community-building, common-sense solutions to Arizona’s…
Brad’s May 2015 presentation “Integrated Local Harvests”. Midway through, Brad engaged the attendees in some kinesthetic learning about working with the Earth’s seasons via the Sun-Path Dance. Presented at the Coneybeare Cleantech Conference…
Brad Lancaster explains an important concept in rainwater harvesting: the Runoff Coefficient. Anyone looking to seriously design water retention landscapes needs to learn the concept (and even better—the math) so their design can…