This video illustrates the sun’s path (and the shadows it casts) on the winter solstice—the day with the longest shadows of the year—for a site at 32˚ N latitude. Awareness of such shadow…
December 23, 2021
See how this ideal orientation of home and landscape trees (in water-harvesting basins) to the sun—plus appropriately sized equator-facing roof overhang—maximizes the on-site potential to freely/passively harvest cooling shade in summer, generate rooftop-solar…
See how this ideal orientation of home and landscape trees (within water-harvesting basins) to the sun—plus appropriately sized equator-facing roof overhang—maximizes the on-site potential to freely/passively harvest warming sun and light in winter,…
See how this layout of trees and cisterns on the west, and house on the north, of the garden create a Sun Trap welcoming the morning sun on the garden (and front porch),…
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…
This video was shot in early summer 2021 coming out of the driest year on record with record heat, and finally got 1.7 inches (43 mm) of rain 7-2021. But almost everyone let…
December 3, 2021
Learn to compost your human waste into free, safe, on-site high-quality fertilizer that will make your garden lush! Check out the following Mr. Brown-friendly links: www.omick.net/composting_toilets/composting_toilets.htm Illustrated guides on building and using simple,…
This informative and entertaining film brings to life practices and projects that individuals and communities have created to steward our watersheds and slow the flow of stormwater, one of the largest contributors of…
Miracle on Elmer Avenue Andy Lipkis, Founder and President of TreePeople, talks about Elmer Avenue, a neighborhood in Los Angeles’ NE San Fernando Valley that was transformed from a flood-hazard zone into a…