Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond by Brad Lancaster. Click here to order. Turn water scarcity into water abundance!

These books show you how to conceptualize, design, and implement sustainable water- , sun- , wind- , and shade- harvesting systems for your home, landscape, and community. They enable you to access your on- site resources (rainwater, greywater, topsoil, sun, plants, and more), give you a diverse array of strategies to maximize their potential, and empower you with guiding principles to create an integrated, multi- functional resource- harvesting and - enhancing landscape plan specific to your site and needs. These books will help bring your site to life, reduce your cost of living, endow yourself and your community with skills of self- reliance and cooperation, generate renewable on- site power, and create living air conditioners of vegetation that grow beauty, food, flood- control, and wildlife habitat. Watch Mr. Bones Streaming here. Stories of people who are successfully welcoming rain into their life and landscape will invite you to do the same! Watch Brad’s TEDx. Tucson talk, Planting the Rain to Grow Abundance: For more videos, visit this website’s video page.“Plant the Rain” Caps.

Manufacturer of agricultural harvesting products including swathers, combine headers, mowers, conditioners, and pick-up reels. The World Book web site offers an encyclopedia, dictionary, atlas, homework help, study aids, and curriculum guides. Tax-loss harvesting—offsetting capital gains with capital losses—can lower your tax bill and better position your portfolio going forward. Aqua Cleaner is a leader in waterfront restoration technology. Specializing in suction dredging and suction harvesting, Aqua Cleaner provides lake, pond and waterway.

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Check out Brad Lancaster’s interviews on NPR’s Morning Edition: Click here to listen to January 1. Click here to listen to September 1. Listen to Rainwater- Harvesting Songs: Click to hear: Rainwater Spiritual, by Gabrielle Pietrangelo of Silver Thread Trio fame.

When Jesus was on the earth, He found Himself in the Word of God. Watch Gloria Copeland and Kellie Copeland on Believer’s Voice of Victory as they share how you can. Watch Horror movies online at BoxTV.com. Browse your favorite movies in Horror Genre (Movie listings sorted by movie genre). Every Horror Movie and Films you might be.

Rainwater Song, by Leith Kahl, a. Desert Rat, Brad’s favorite banjo- playin’, story- tellin’ activist. Harvest Rainwater, by Bradford Trojan, my power- pop/folk, dance- inducing yogi/neighbor. Click here to download the song. Sing Back the River, a beautiful, bittersweet song by Petey Mesquitey about southern Arizona’s Santa Cruz River which used to flow year- round near downtown Tucson. To hear Petey’s introductory story to the song click here.

Dry River, by Dave Alvin. This video link enables you to hear one version of the song, but I think his best version is Dry River (Live) from his album Interstate City (Live) which he recorded as Dave Alvin & the Guilty Men. The river in the song is the Los Angeles River in Los Angeles, California. We need more songs to build a smokin’- hot soundtrack to help motivate and lubricate the regenerative movement of working with our neighbors and ecosystems to enhance life and its potential within our communities and throughout our planet.

Do you have a song(s) to contribute? If so, please send it to admin@Harvesting.

Rainwater. com. Click here for more songs; we’ll be adding new ones as they come in. Peruse the bounty of free water- harvesting resources, including: Water- related rebates and incentive programs in Tucson, Arizona. List of incentives and rebates for Tucson Water’s residential and commercial users, including rebates for rainwater harvesting, greywater harvesting, and high- efficiency toilets.

Rainwater- harvesting rebate, which can pay you up to $2,0. Greywater- harvesting rebate, which can pay you up to $1,0. An ordinance requiring commercial landscapes to provide at least 5.

A Green Streets policy requiring new and reconstructed roadways be designed to harvest the first 1/2 inch (1. The policy is technically the Tucson Department of Transportation’s “Active Practice Guidelines.” This is a dramatic 1. In the past, lifeless grey infrastructure of asphalt and concrete drained nearly 1. Now living green infrastructure is being built and planted along and within the streets to harvest and reinvest nearly all the rainfall and street runoff from a typical storm to generate and grow living air conditioners and water/air/soil filters of beautiful, shading vegetation.

Note: The next time this policy is reviewed, I’d like to see if it would be possible to revise the Performance Goal (under section D) which states that “Green Infrastructure basins are designed to accept a maximum final pooling depth of 8 inches,” to allow for deeper, higher- capacity pooling depths to increase capacity. Study modeling the costs & benefits of Green Infrastructure retrofits in Tucson, AZThis study utilizes a Holistic Cost Benefit analysis to assess a full range of benefits that would be achieved with a Green Stormwater Infrastructure (GSI) retrofit of residential properties, rights- of- way (ROW), and streets, as well as commercial properties, schools, churches, other community nodes, and their associated parking lots within three built- out watersheds in the south of Tucson. Results from modeling show GSI can have a significant impact on both large and small storm events. GSI resulted in reducing the 1. GSI implemented throughout these watersheds in the 2. CAP water and groundwater in Tucson. Residential rain gardens, curb- cut rain gardens, and Green Street features have benefit/cost ratios greater than 1 showing that benefits outweigh the costs by 4.

Use these to make signs of your Tucson neighborhood’s watershed(s). See an example of such a sign, made of the Dunbar/Spring Washes and Watersheds. Check out my blog post, Watershed Maps Are Community Maps.

And take a look at John Wesley Powell’s map of the western United States as he proposed the region be delineated by natural watershed boundaries—not by arbitrary political boundary lines. Click here and here for different versions of the United Watersheds of America map. Corrections? Requests? Suggestions? Questions? Click here to send us a message with corrections, broken- link alerts, requests or suggestions for additions, or other web- content- related correspondence.

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