Swales for Harvesting Water
Geoff Lawton demonstrates what swales do.
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Geoff Lawton demonstrates what swales do.
The idea here is that regular pavement doesn’t allow for water to seep into the ground. Instead, usually we end up with a lot of pollution in streams and rivers flooded with stormwater run-off or (sometimes severed) flooding. Porous pavement can prevent all that…
Porous Pavement from GreenTreks Network on Vimeo.
Learn an easy photo technique to monitor your property’s health. The video is taken on a rural property in Wyoming and is produced by the University of Wyoming. Embedding was disabled on this video, so just click through to watch it directly on YouTube.
Maximizing the uses of rainwater and minimizing the impacts of stormwater runoff through native landscaping, infiltration and harvesting for reuse was a goal from the start. This video looks at a property (house with barn and surrounding land) in Pennsylvania and what the architect did to design a more sustainable use of the water that falls as rain. Rainwater here is redirected to irrigate yard plantings and once filtered to a cistern that the homeowner says is full almost all the time.
Harvesting Rainwater from GreenTreks Network on Vimeo.
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