{"product_id":"rainwater-harvesting-for-drylands-and-beyond-volume-2-2nd-edition-water-harvesting-earthworks-9780977246441","title":"Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 2, 2nd Edition: Water-Harvesting Earthworks","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e2020 independent Press Award Winner--Green Book Category\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRainwater\u003cem\u003e Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eVolume 2 \u003c\/em\u003eis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis revised and expanded full-color second edition builds on the information in \u003cem\u003eVolume 1\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLearn 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 \u003cem\u003ewill \u003c\/em\u003edo it \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLipkis, Andy:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Andy Lipkis is the founder and president of TreePeople.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLancaster, Brad:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eBrad 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBrad 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rainsource Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50612412973330,"sku":"9780977246441","price":35.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_eb72b955-b908-43bc-b6f0-abfd3d68b42d.jpg?v=1737289612","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/rainwater-harvesting-for-drylands-and-beyond-volume-2-2nd-edition-water-harvesting-earthworks-9780977246441","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}