Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 1, 2nd Edition: Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain into Your Life and Landscape Author: Brad Lancaster | Language: English | ISBN:
0977246434 | Format: EPUB
Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 1, 2nd Edition: Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain into Your Life and Landscape Description
The award-winning Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 1, 2nd Edition: Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain into Your Life and Landscape, is the first book in a three-volume guide that teaches you how to conceptualize, design, and implement sustainable water-harvesting systems for your home, landscape, and community. The lessons in this volume will enable you to assess your on-site resources, give you a diverse array of strategies to maximize their potential, and empower you with guiding principles to create an integrated, multi-functional water-harvesting plan specific to your site and needs.
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.
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 encourage you to do the same!
- Paperback: 304 pages
- Publisher: Rainsource Press; Revised second edition edition (July 1, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0977246434
- ISBN-13: 978-0977246434
- Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.4 x 0.8 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
i read volume 2 first and was wondering if i should bother reading the 1st. i am really glad i did - there was definitely overlap but he covers a lot of other topics well (wind and solar energy; passive solar and maximizing winter sun; sun direction and movement...) giving a more rounded view of conservation and more ideas for your individual home. he was very detailed yet it was not boring or over the top technical. A great compliment to both books and the book i actually read before any of the rain harvesting books is "Gaia's Garden" by Toby Hemmenway. i feel all three of these books support each other in leading one to a more self reliant, sustainable way of life.
By Deb Blades
I've been a fan of Brad Lancaster's books for several years, but I found them even more useful during the prolonged drought of 2011 which impacted us here even on the humid Gulf Coast. His strategies for harvesting rainwater (and other water resources) and storing not only in cisterns but--more importantly and efficiently--in the soil where it is needed were developed in the aridness of Tucson AZ, but can be adapted to other climates.
Volume 1 of Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond is the first in his (eventual) three-volume series, and lays out the principles and main strategies for making use of the rainwater resource, as well as the many reasons for why it needs to be done. This second edition of Volume 1 adds a tremendous amount of new material to the original book, and further improves an already valuable book. Like permaculture itself, this is an imagination-rich and information-dense book, sure to be a valuable reference no matter where you live.
By Mark J.
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