Rain-Irrigated LIVING Air Conditioners shading and cooling neighborhood streets by 38˚F or 21˚C!
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- 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 over 38˚F or 21˚C!
It is not just the shade that cools. It is also the cooling effect of the passively harvested water that cycles through the life of the soil-carbon sponge. For more on the soil-carbon sponge see: www.harvesting...
This is also a great flood-control system in wet times; mitigates drought in dry times; and improves our air, mood, and wildlife habitat all the time.
We are able to harvest over one million gallons of street runoff per mile per year from our neighborhood streets by directing that water to sufficiently sized rain gardens, rather than the storm drain!
This was filmed September 2022 in the Dunbar/Spring Neighborhood of Tucson, AZ
Get more info on how to do this and harvest many other free, on-site waters at:
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where you can buy the new full-color editions of Brad's award-winning books, "Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond" at deep discount direct from Brad at:
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THIS NEEDS TO HAPPEN ALL OVER THE UNITED STATES SOUTHWEST AND BEYOND!!! Thank you Brad!
I was walking those very neighborhoods a couples weeks back and man, I wish we had that over in the garden district! Not only is it much more walkable thanks to the shade, but it'd be nice to save on electricity! loll
Thanks for all you do Brad!
You too can have that in the garden district, just start planting the rain and native food-bearing plants.
Most of our neighborhood streetscapes were very bleak when we starting our regular neighborhood plantings about 30 years ago.
All it takes to start a community planting project is two people with two shovels, and a tree.
Get more on our neighborhood efforts (including events and work parties you can join) at link below:
dunbarspringneighborhoodforesters.org/
From eyesore to sanctuary. Thank you for sharing your work/play! Awesome.
More vids please
Legend
Always impressed by what you have done with shade trees and native plants in your area. I with every street in your city would adopt this type of landscape design. The coming years are going to bring even more challenges for us humans. Your ideas can save so many lives. Best wishes to your endeavors!
Amazing!
Awesomeness
☮❤
I didn’t catch the name of the tree you mentioned. Would you mind letting me know?
Desert ironwood tree (Olneya tesota)
SWEET!
I’m new to Arizona. We got a house that had a completely barren ground, front and back, except for weeds and Bermuda growing wild. I would love to do something like this by the street but apparently we are not supposed to plant anything on the first 8’ of our lot because of some underground utility. During raining season water rush from back alley through our lot to the street. Yesterday i dug a small basin in the backyard but with the billions of Bermuda seeds in the ground I think it will just promote its growth. Not sure how to win this battle. I planted a few native trees with gullies around and bushes. I bought one of your book.
The more water I capture the more weeds (Goathead) and Bermuda grow. 😳
Water enables more life. Sounds like you need to switch the living seed bank in your yard. Pull the goat heads and other weeds as soon as they emerge-before they flower and set more seed. Chickens love to eat bermuda grass and other weeds. Our chickens have eradicated the bermuda grass that used to be dense where we have since placed their run.
There are other means of removing undesired invasive plants. Use the strategy that is best for your unique context.
I typically strive to eradicate existing invasive weeds and their seed stock BEFORE I plant the rain and other on-site waters.
And as you remove unwanted weeds, be sure to introduce the seed of more appropriate, desired (ideally native) plants.
In southern Arizona I love using the native perennial and annual plant seed from many of Wildland Restoration's seed mixes.
See link below for more on such seed:
dunbarspringneighborhoodforesters.org/plant-resources/seed-mixes-for-sonoran-desert-stormwater-harvesting-rain-gardens/
Hi Brad, would be great if you could come to my permaculture festival thuis summer.
It would be great if you posted more info.😊
I'm so over committed I likely cannot make it to your festival, but please spread the word on my books and how people can best support my efforts (
and inform their own) by getting them at deep discount direct from me at the link below:
www.harvestingrainwater.com/shop/
Also please share my following two websites:
dunbarspringneighborhoodforesters.org/
www.harvestingrainwater.com/
And my youtube channel:
ruclips.net/user/HarvestingRainwater
Have you ever experimented with desert oak species (tubinella, hypoleucoides etc.) in those basins or is it just too hot and dry?