Enter some intro copy about this videoVan Clothier, co-author of “Let the Water Do the Work”, shares unique and effective strategies to affordably harvest stormwater & snow melt runoff from, and divert sediment…
January 28, 2026
December 4, 2025
How Aaron Kauffman has created an easily replicable, low-cost, free water, rain garden / snow garden parking lot retrofit that is transforming high school and public park parking lots across Santa Fe, New…
How Aaron Kauffman has created an easily replicable, low-cost, free water, rain garden / snow garden parking lot retrofit that is transforming high school and public park parking lots across Santa Fe, New…
December 1, 2025
Discover how to foster thriving urban spaces through practical strategies promoting affordable housing and strong community engagement. Learn how water-harvesting green infrastructure initiatives and passive sun and shade harvesting can contribute to sustainable…
How we turned a small rain event into a BIG rainwater harvest by planting stormwater within simple street-SIDE and IN-street water-harvesting earthworks or rain gardens growing food and shade-producing native plants. Some of…
Easy street water harvesting maintenance tips to boost performance, improve your plant identification skills, and erosion-control rock work strategies and tips. CHAPTERS:0:00 Intro0:18 Street-side rain gardens capturing street runoff0:28 Cleaning organic matter off…
How a series of a hybrid of street-side eddy backwater basins and flow-through basins harvest street runoff in BOTH low & BIG flow events, while also controlling erosion with hand-built one-rock-high structures such…
From sterile gravel lot to lush rain-fed paradise! How a single rain garden sparked the on-going transformation of a once sterile office complex experiencing costly flooding into a growing oasis that harvests onsite…
August 6, 2025
The City of Albuquerque, NM has just adopted a new curb cut policy! This policy provides a simple process for residents to apply to install curb cuts, curb cores and sediment traps in…
June 21, 2025
I write this on the first day of summer with the daytime high temperature well above 100˚F (37˚C), in a drought made far worse by bad landscape design that drains rather than retains…