Sentences with phrase «from rain barrels»

(Many folks suggest simply peeing in a watering can and then filling up the rest from your rain barrel.)

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Koch recommends offering to buy water from neighbors or teaching them how to capture water in rain barrels.

Senator Rev Ruben Diaz and the NYC Department of Environmental are sponsoring a Free Rain Barrel Giveaway to be held on Saturday, August 8, 2015 from 9 am — 2 pm.

Hurricane Sandy barreled into the U.S. East Coast on October 29, bringing heavy rains, high winds and severe storm surges from the Carolinas to New England.

In a quest to better predict space weather, the Dartmouth researchers study the radiation belts from above and below in complementary approaches — through satellites (the twin NASA Van Allen Probes) high over Earth and through dozens of instrument - laden balloons (BARREL, or Balloon Array for Radiation belt Relativistic Electron Losses) at lower altitudes to assess the particles that rain down.

The city has committed $ 1.5 billion to erecting green infrastructure — green roofs, street and sidewalk plantings, porous pavements, cisterns, rain barrels — that will control and absorb storm water and prevent polluted runoff from flowing into waterways by capturing it and filtering it naturally through the soil.

Eighth District Councilmember Al Austin — Photo from Facebook Eighth District Councilmember Al Austin II is partnering with Hughes Eighth Grade Student leader Miranda Luzanilla to host a Rain Barrel Sale and Free Rainwater Harvesting Class at Hughes Middle School, 3846 California Avenue, Long Beach, CA 90807.

With last autumn, the real preparations began, the storing and packing of grain, and drying of fish, and brewing mead, and catching fresh water from rains and streams in barrels lined with tar, and weaning lambs, and slaughtering sheep too old or sick to cross the ocean with us.

The sound effects include Major Fletcher walking, sprinting or dashing, gunfire from your weapons, a range of attacks from machines and their respective weaponry, explosions from environmental hazards such as explosive barrels and electric devices when shot at and ambient sound effects such as heavy rain that breathes more life into the surrounding environments, alongside atmospheric music, while the DualShock 4 speaker sporadically produces a voice - over detailing your latest objective.

Everything from the individual blades of grass that cover the hillsides to the way rain collects and drips on your gun barrel will make you wonder if it's possible for a game to look any better than this.

If young and fresh H5N1 contaminated water from low local wells, cisterns, tanks, rain barrels or rice fields is used for water supply the water temperature for infection may be higher (at 24 °C the virulence of influenza viruses amount to 2 days) as in temperate climates (for «older» water from central water supplies cold water is decisive to virulence of viruses: at 7 °C the virulence of influenza viruses amount to 14 days).

The Life Pod is a small free standing structure that implements solar panels as a roof surface providing dry covered shelter and water catchment, the water off the solar roof is stored in rain barrels, on the south side there is a Hydroponic food system mounted that produces fresh organic supply of greens, on the north side of the structure is a small utility closet that houses the solar battery and all the food system equipment, on the side of the utility closet there are 4 electrical outlets and an EV charging station, you can run the AC power over to your home or business and power any of your electrical needs with the off grid energy from the Life Pod.

As Hurricane Harvey barreled into Houston, the state shut down 50 stationary air quality monitors that track pollution levels to protect the sensitive devices from the high winds and torrential rains that swamped the region.

My design came from a need to make the most rain barrels that would last and perform their function at the lowest cost.

Have fun and save money by living green by creating your own simple rain barrel to harvest rainwater from your roof.

The 15 - foot living walls will shade the home and rain barrels from the sun, but the Hutchinson's also intend to harvest the vines for grapes, passionfruit, and Scarlet Runner Beans.

You can see a finished example of this type of wooden rain barrel in the top picture above from Kent Rasmussen's Lincoln Green Scene profile.

One of my absolute favorite (and cheapest) DIY rain barrel ideas is from designer Michelle Kaufmann.

Do you wish you had a rain barrel to harvest rainwater from your roof — but don't want to spend $ 100's or settle for an ugly blue plastic container?

Created from sustainability principles, the RainReserve diverter was designed to eliminate the carbon foot print with traditional rain barrels.

The barrel shaped pavilion is completely off - grid: the water will be gathered from the rain (good luck this month) and there is a compost toilet.

«IBC found that rain barrels, if emptied regularly, could divert 4.5 - million litres of rainwater runoff away from a municipality's sewer system and out of homes, which is great news,» said Ralph Palumbo, vice president of Ontario at IBC.

«From very simple designs to elaborate combinations that link multiple barrels together, all can be found under the search «rain barrels,»» says Wool, who leads rain barrel - making workshops for his master gardener unit: www.jccwmbg.org.

Rain barrels keep the rainwater from going down into the groundwater.