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Desert Living 12-24-2007: Desert Harvesters, Dunbar/Spring Neighborhood, Little Houses, Natural Building Materials
This short video from tucson12.tv touches on a number of juicy things going on in central Tucson. Harvesting street runoff to grow food-producing street trees and then processing the bounty to bring the neighborhood together for a big mesquite milling and pancake breakfast is just some of the good stuff. Check it out by scrolling down to, and clicking on to, the 12-24-2007 Desert Harvesters program.
Brad Lancaster Growing Street Trees with Harvested Street Runoff, Part 1
This short video from SustainableRoute.com shows how we harvest the runoff from the street to passively irrigate street trees shading the street in Tucson, Arizona. Tucson receives 12 inches (304 mm) of rain in an average year of precipitation.
Brad Lancaster Growing Street Trees and More with Harvested Street Runoff, Part 2
This short video from SustainableRoute.com shows how we’ve created urban wildlife habitat, food-production, beauty, living air conditioners, and community in the urban core with rainwater-irrigated street trees. Street trees shading over about 80% of the street can reduce summer temperatures by 10 degrees F. The average residential street in Tucson drains about a million gallons of rain per mile per year. Yet if we instead directed that street runoff to curbside, mulched, water-harvesting basins and native street trees – we could support over 400 trees per mile, or a tree every 25 feet on both sides of the street, just on harvested rainfall and street runoff. Get more information from Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 2: Water-Harvesting Earthworks.
Brad Lancaster: Water-Harvesting Basics, Part 1
Part 1 of 3 short videos from Sustainable World Media in which Brad talks about Water Harvesting and more
Brad Lancaster: the muffin tin and sponge models
Two water-harvesting demonstrations filmed by Sustainable World Media
Rain Water Harvesting – upside down umbrella style. This is one of my favorite videos. A beautiful call to water harvesting by the Centre for Science and Environment in India.
A Wonderful Example of an Inner-City Residence Retrofitted for Water-Harvesting in Los Angeles, California. This is a great example for cities everywhere, and beautiful street theater. Non-profit, TreePeople, put out a press release that a 1,500-year flood would hit a single residential property, but all would be OK due to a water-harvesting retrofit of cisterns, swales, infiltration basins, and dry wells. See this video for the TV coverage of the event when 4,000 gallons of water from fire hoses was dumped onto the property in 10 minutes. Not a drop of water left the property; all was beneficially harvested. Flood control and water security all in one go!
An improved drumless laundry greywater system installed with the help of the Greywater Guerrillas, now known as Greywater Action.
For installation instructions and much more on the Improved Drumless Laundry Greywater System see:
http://www.oasisdesign.net/greywater/laundry/
This system uses irrigation tubing and the force of the washing machine’s built in pump.
It is also called: Laundry to Landscape Greywater System, Laundry to Mulch Basins Greywater, and a Drumless Laundry Greywater System
Greening the Desert a dynamic water harvesting project in Jordan
For more information and data on this project, see the blog “Permaculture Under Drought and Salinity Conditions” by Mohammed Ayesh, a Jordanian agricultural engineer who has long been involved in the project.
Visit www.thewaterchannel.tv, a public service website that currently broadcasts 300+ water-related videos, many of which focus on water-harvesting.
Don’t Make Us Ask You Again.
Las Vegas, Nevada, Water Conservation Commercial
Humorous and to the point.
