Light colored exterior walls—exposed to full sun—are over 25˚F (13˚C) cooler than darker colored walls; while shaded walls (whatever the color) are over 45˚F (25˚C) degrees cooler than walls exposed to the full…
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August 21, 2023
rad Lancaster shows us the dramatic summer temperature differences of public walkways in the shade vs. in the full sun. This video also shows you how simple changes that plant the rain and…
August 12, 2023
Brad Lancaster shows us dramatic pre-sunrise temperature differences of paved and unpaved areas in the urban environment, so you can see what heats us up, and what cools us down (and by how…
August 7, 2023
See how we harvest over 30,000 gallons (114,000 liters) of roof runoff in tree basins to passively shade and cool the building from which we harvest the water. This system was created in…
June 9, 2023
Download and/or view a high-resolution 2023 version of the map Then zoom in to see the details. Compare the 2023 version of the map to the originally released 2022 version (below)to see how…
June 3, 2023
Listen to this podcast by Living on Earth, National Public Radio’s Environmental News Magazine, on how our Dunbar/Spring neighborhood, and its Neighborhood Foresters, harvest over a million gallons per year of stormwater from…
June 2, 2023
In this video, Brad Lancaster shows how native food-bearing trees and understory vegetation planted within or beside passive rain- and stormwater-harvesting rain gardens is able to shade and cool the neighborhood street by…
May 3, 2023
We planted over 60,000 gallons of annual stormwater, 36 native food-bearing trees and bush trees, & 114 multi-use native understory plants in this year’s annual neighborhood rain & native food forest planting. See…
December 12, 2022
A case study planting rain and neighborhood native food forests to grow regenerative abundance By Brad Lancaster (Author) and Karryn Olson (Editor) with The Regenerative Economy Collaborative I get up predawn to pee,…
November 29, 2022
Brad Lancaster HarvestingRainwater.com Check out the newly published paper “Green stormwater infrastructure in a semi-arid climate: The influence of rain gardens on soil moisture over seven years” by Aaron T. Kauffman of Southwest…