Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 2, 2nd Edition - Brad Lancaster

Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 2, 2nd Edition

Water-Harvesting Earthworks

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
448 Seiten
2019 | Revised edition
Rainsource Press (Verlag)
978-0-9772464-4-1 (ISBN)
56,10 inkl. MwSt
A how-to guide enabling you to plant the rain by creating water-harvesting earthworks or rain gardens.
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!

Brad Lancaster is a dynamic teacher, consultant, and designer of regenerative systems. He’s taught throughout North America, Middle East, Asia, Europe, Africa, and Australia; worked with the City of Tucson and other municipalities to legalize, incentivize, and provide guidance on water-harvesting systems, demonstration sites, and policy; and designed edible rain-irrigated landscapes doubling as flood control and community-building strategies for housing developments, parks, schools, businesses, ranches, and neighborhoods. Brad’s aim is always to boost communities’ true health and wealth by using simple overlapping strategies to augment the region’s hydrology, ecosystems, and economies—living systems upon which we depend. Brad lives his talk on an oasis-like demonstration site he created with his brother’s family in downtown Tucson, Arizona. On this eighth of an acre and surrounding public right-of-way, they harvest 100,000 gallons of rainwater a year where just 11 inches per year fall from the sky. Brad is motivated in his work by the tens of thousands of people he has helped inspire to do likewise, go further, and continue our collective evolution. Andy Lipkis is the founder and president of TreePeople.

Erscheinungsdatum
Vorwort Andy Lipkis
Zusatzinfo Full-color photographs and illustrations throughout
Verlagsort Tuscon, AZ
Sprache englisch
Maße 216 x 277 mm
Gewicht 1198 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Natur / Technik Garten
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Natur / Technik Natur / Ökologie
Technik Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
ISBN-10 0-9772464-4-2 / 0977246442
ISBN-13 978-0-9772464-4-1 / 9780977246441
Zustand Neuware
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