Rainwater Harvesting For Drylands And Beyond
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Rainwater Harvesting For Drylands And Beyond
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Author : Brad Lancaster
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Rainwater Harvesting For Drylands And Beyond written by Brad Lancaster and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Arid regions agriculture categories.
"This revised and expanded second edition increases potential for on-site harvests with more integrated tools and strategies for solar design, a primer on your water/energy/carbon connections, descriptions of water/erosion flow patterns and their water-harvesting response, and updated illustrations to show you how to do it all."--Publisher description.
Rainwater Harvesting For Drylands And Beyond Volume 1 3rd Edition
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Author : Brad Lancaster
language : en
Publisher: Rainsource Press
Release Date : 2019-10-15
Rainwater Harvesting For Drylands And Beyond Volume 1 3rd Edition written by Brad Lancaster and has been published by Rainsource Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-15 with Architecture categories.
Turn water scarcity into water abundance; as you enable your home, yard, school, place of worship, and/or neighborhood to generate more resources and life! Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 1, 3rd Edition, is the best-selling, award-winning guide on how to conceptualize, design, and implement a diverse array of highly effective and inexpensive strategies, which harvest and enhance the combined potential of many free on-site resources (such as rainwater, greywater, sun, wind, shade, soil fertility, and more). Clearly written with more than 290 illustrations, this full color edition helps endow you and your community with new capabilities; reduce your cost of living; plant abundant self-irrigating gardens; construct and retrofit buildings that power, light, heat, and cool themselves; and create community-building street-side forests that grow beauty, food, carbon-sequestration, flood-control, and wildlife habitat. Stories of people who are vibrantly welcoming rain, sun, wind, and shade into their lives and landscapes will invite you to do the same!
Rainwater Harvesting For Drylands And Beyond
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Author : Brad Lancaster
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Rainwater Harvesting For Drylands And Beyond written by Brad Lancaster and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Landscape design categories.
Rainwater Harvesting For Drylands And Beyond Volume 2 2nd Edition
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Author : Brad Lancaster
language : en
Publisher: Rainsource Press
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Rainwater Harvesting For Drylands And Beyond Volume 2 2nd Edition written by Brad Lancaster and has been published by Rainsource Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Architecture categories.
Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 2, 2nd Edition is a how-to guide enabling you to “plant the rain” by creating water-harvesting “earthworks” or “rain gardens.” Earthworks are simple, inexpensive strategies and landforms that passively harvest multiple sources of free on-site water including rainfall, stormwater runoff, air conditioning condensate, and greywater within “living tanks” of soil and vegetation. The plants then pump the water back out in the form of beauty, food, shelter, wildlife habitat, timber and forage, while controlling erosion, reducing down-stream flooding, dropping utility costs, increasing soil fertility, enhancing the soil carbon sponge, recharging groundwater and springs, and improving water and air quality. This dramatically revised and expanded full-color second edition builds on the information in Volume 1 by showing you how to turn your yard, school, business, park, ranch, and neighborhood into lively, regenerative producers of resources. Conditions at home will improve as you simultaneously enrich the ecosystem and inspire the surrounding community. Learn to select, place, size, construct, and plant your chosen earthworks. All is made easier and more effective by the illustrations of natural patterns of water and sediment flow with which you can collaborate or mimic. Detailed step-by-step instructions with over 550 images and expanded water-harvesting principles or guidelines show you how to do it, and plentiful stories of success motivate you so you will do it!
Rainwater Harvesting For Drylands And Beyond
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Author : Brad Lancaster
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Rainwater Harvesting For Drylands And Beyond written by Brad Lancaster and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with categories.
Rainwater Harvesting For Drylands And Beyond Volume 2 2nd Edition
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Author : Brad Lancaster
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-05-15
Rainwater Harvesting For Drylands And Beyond Volume 2 2nd Edition written by Brad Lancaster and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-15 with Gardening categories.
2020 independent Press Award Winner--Green Book Category Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 2 is a how-to guide enabling you to "plant the rain" by creating water-harvesting "earthworks" or "rain gardens." Earthworks are simple, inexpensive strategies and landforms that passively harvest multiple sources of free on-site water including rainfall, stormwater runoff, air conditioning condensate, and greywater within "living tanks" of soil and vegetation. The plants then pump the water back out in the form of beauty, food, shelter, wildlife habitat, timber and forage, while controlling erosion, reducing down-stream flooding, dropping utility costs, increasing soil fertility, and improving water and air quality. This revised and expanded full-color second edition builds on the information in Volume 1 by showing you how to turn your yard, school, business, park, and neighborhood into lively, regenerative producers of resources. Conditions at home will improve as you simultaneously enrich the ecosystem and inspire the surrounding community. Learn to select, place, size, construct, and plant your chosen earthworks. All is made easier and more effective by the illustrations of natural patterns of water and sediment flow with which you can collaborate or mimic. Detailed step-by-step instructions with over 550 images show you how to do it, and plentiful stories of success motivate you so you will do it!
Rainwater Harvesting For Drylands
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Author : Brad Lancaster
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Rainwater Harvesting For Drylands written by Brad Lancaster and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Landscape design categories.
Rainwater Harvesting For Drylands And Beyond
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Author : Brad Lancaster
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Rainwater Harvesting For Drylands And Beyond written by Brad Lancaster and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Nature categories.
Turn water scarcity into water abundance! Earthworks are one of the easiest, least expensive, and most effective ways of passively harvesting and conserving multiple sources of water in the soil. Associated vegetation then pumps the harvested water back out in the form of beauty, food, shelter, wildlife habitat, and passive heating and cooling strategies, while controlling erosion, increasing soil fertility, reducing downstream flooding, and improving water and air quality. Building on the information presented in Volume 1, this book shows you how to select, place, size, construct, and plant your chosen water-harvesting earthworks. It presents detailed how-to information and variations of a diverse array of earthworks, including chapters on mulch, vegetation, and greywater recycling so you can customize the techniques to the unique requirements of your site. Real life stories and examples permeate the book, including: How curb cuts redirect street runoff to passively irrigate flourishing shade trees planted along the street How check dams have helped create springs and perennial flows in once-dry creeks How infiltration basins are creating thriving rain-fed gardens How backyard greywater laundromats are turning "wastewater" into a resource growing food, beauty, and shade that builds community, and more. How to create simple tools to read slope and water flow More than 225 illustrations and photographs
Blue Covenant
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Author : Maude Barlow
language : en
Publisher: The New Press
Release Date : 2009-05-01
Blue Covenant written by Maude Barlow and has been published by The New Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05-01 with Nature categories.
A cautionary account of climate change and the global water supply. “You will not turn on the tap in the same way after reading this book.” —Robert Redford In a book hailed by Publishers Weekly as a “passionate plea for access-to-water activism,” Blue Covenant addresses an environmental crisis that—together with global warming—poses one of the gravest threats to our survival. How did the world’s most vital resource become imperiled? And what must we do to pull back from the brink? In “stark and nearly devastating prose”, world-renowned activist and bestselling author Maude Barlow—who is featured in the acclaimed documentary Flow—discusses the state of the world’s water. Barlow examines how water companies are reaping vast profits from declining supplies, and how ordinary people from around the world have banded together to reclaim the public’s right to clean water, creating a grassroots global water justice movement. While tracing the history of international battles for the right to water, she documents the life-and-death stakes involved in the fight and lays out the actions that we as global citizens must take to secure a water-just world for all (Booklist). “Sounds the water alarm with conviction and authority.” —Kirkus Reviews “This book proves that water deserves another destiny.” —Eduardo Galeano “Blue Covenant will inspire civil society movements around the world.” —Vandana Shiva
Essential Rainwater Harvesting
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Author : Rob Avis
language : en
Publisher: New Society Publishers
Release Date : 2018-12-11
Essential Rainwater Harvesting written by Rob Avis and has been published by New Society Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-11 with House & Home categories.
Design a rainwater harvesting system for any home in any climate. Water is a crucial resource increasingly under stress. Yet rainfall, even in arid climates, can make up a sizable portion of any home, acreage, or farm's water requirements if harvested and utilized with care. The key is appropriate planning and high-quality site- and climate-specific design. Essential Rainwater Harvesting is a comprehensive manual for designing, building, and maintaining water harvesting systems for the warm and cold climates of the world. Presenting design considerations and approaches for the most common household rainwater supply scenarios – primary, supplemental, and off-grid supply – this step-by-step approach covers: Considerations for full-property water security Demand planning and conservation strategies Supply calculations and design implications for extreme rainfall and drought Materials selection and water quality System and site assessment Sizing and design of gutters, conveyance, tanks, and pumps Pre-filtration, filtration, and disinfection options System maintenance and upkeep This practical resource provides DIYers, trades, and rainwater practitioners with the essential tools, methods, and technical know-how to design, build, and maintain rainwater harvesting systems anywhere. Rob Avis, P.Eng and Michelle Avis, P.Eng own and operate Adaptive Habitat, a leading edge property design firm for resilient homes, acreages, and farms and Verge Permaculture, a globally recognized award-winning education business. They have over 20 years of combined experience in project management, ecological design, and sustainable technologies, which they share at vergepermaculture.ca from their suburban house and yard that they've transformed into a model of cold climate urban permaculture in Calgary, Alberta.