Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 1, 3rd Edition
Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain Into Your Life and Landscape
-
-
5.0 • 7 Ratings
-
-
- $29.99
-
- $29.99
Publisher Description
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!
Customer Reviews
Incredibly Inspiring
This book and its green brother Volume 2 are wonderfully complete works for efficient, earth-friendly wisdom for living! They discuss how to grow food and shade without city or well water, how to cool and heat your home without electricity, how to harness what was a liability and make it into a resource! These books and this man’s work have completely inspired my way of living to be hopeful and responsible in the face of our modern challenges! You will reference them time and again!! Book one has more info on the wide range of energy and rain harvesting while book 2 has more info on intricacies of water harvesting through topographic manipulation.
This amazing book has me rejoicing with every rain
This amazing book has me rejoicing with every rain, as it taught me how to capture those free waters from the sky. And unexpectedly, the book also taught me how to heat my home for free with the sun and cool it for free with strategic shading - much of it living!