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…
April 2, 2025
See the linked video below… Brad Lancaster and the Dunbar/Spring Neighborhood Foresters designed, got grant funding for, and project managed the installation of four fully permitted new water-harvesting traffic-calming “chicanes” or “curb extensions”…
September 16, 2024
Ak-chin farming makes desert agriculture possible, and now, those practices help communities today. Farming can thrive in the desert. The Tohono O’odham people have grown crops for thousands of years, and in this…
September 7, 2024
How to save a lot of water by reusing the water from bathroom sink, bathtub, shower, and kitchen sink drains for free and safe irrigation of your plants. How to conveniently and easily…
August 21, 2023
This video describes how alluvial fans are formed, their ecological function, how they are eroded with gullies caused by unconscious human actions, and how that erosion can be repaired (and the alluvial fan…
Brad 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 6, 2023
Brad Lancaster shows you how the valve choice (and hose size choice) for your gravity-fed (free gravity is your only “pump”) rainwater tank makes a big difference in water flow. The better the…
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…
August 3, 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…