ISBN: 9780977246403 Year Added to Catalog: 2005 Book Format: Paperback Book Art: More than 150 illustrations Dimensions: index Number of Pages: bibliography Book Publisher: Rainsource Press Old ISBN: 8 1/2 x 11, 200 pages Release Date: November 9, 2005 Web Product ID: 300
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Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond Vol. 1
Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain into Your Life and Landscape
2007 Arizona/Glyph Book Awards Winner
Best Gardening/Agriculture Book
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Turn water scarcity into water abundance!
Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands: Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain into Your Life and Landscape is the first volume of three-volume guide on how to conceptualize, design, and implement sustainable water-harvesting systems for your home, landscape, and community. This book enables you to assess your on-site resources, gives you a diverse array of strategies to maximize their potential, and empowers you with guiding principles to create an integrated, multi-functional water-harvesting plan specific to your site and needs.
Volume 1 helps bring your site to life, reduce your cost of living, endow you with skills of self-reliance, and create living air conditioners of vegetation growing beauty, food, and wildlife habitat. Stories of people who are successfully welcoming rain into their life and landscape will invite you to do the same!
About the Author
Brad Lancaster
Brad Lancaster has taught, designed, and consulted on the sustainable design system of permaculture and integrated rainwater harvesting systems since 1993. He lives on the thriving 1/8th-acre urban permaculture site he created in downtown Tucson, Arizona. ...
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