Sentences with phrase «like rain gardens»

-- In their recent report, Banking on Green, American Rivers explained the many benefits of using green roofs and other techniques like rain gardens and green streets to save money, reduce energy use and flooding, and keep people healthy and water clean.

Thanks to our Green City, Clean Waters program, thousands of green tools like rain gardens and stormwater tree planters across the city soak up tens of millions of gallons of stormwater runoff each time we have a substantial storm.

Preliminary sketches of the plan show possible features like rain gardens, a pedestrian bridge, seating areas and informational signs.

Not exact matches

If they could only have cast their minds further back, perhaps they might have recalled a lost paradise: green and yellow meadows stirred by tender winds, umbrageous forests and emerald groves, glass - blue mountain peaks melting into azure skies, glittering bays whose diamond waters break in jade and turquoise surges on sands like powdered alabaster — where the rain falls gently, and is transformed by the setting sun into shimmering curtains of gold — where, beyond verdant valleys and limestone caves, lies a palace filled with every delight the senses can endure, enclosing garden courtyards where crystal fountains splash in porphyry basins, intoxicating perfumes hang upon the breezes, undying flowers of every hue shine out amid the greenery's blue shadows...

In their win in Game 1, D.J. Augustin was raining threes from the Madison Square Garden arc like Allan Houston.

Day of adventure Come rain or shine, why not pack up your baby essentials and head off to a local attraction like a castle, country garden, museum or aquarium.

It says something like: «Do NOT visit the gardens if it rains.

«In addition to encouraging the use of rain storage tanks, builders would be required to use other low - cost and sensible water management methods; these include simple measures, like diverting rainfall to gardens, constructed infiltration swales, mulch and permeable pavement, all of which will help to sustainably direct the rain directly where it falls.

Lots of home and garden stores, nurseries, wineries, and the like will sell you used oak barrels that make beautiful and great wooden rain barrels.

Use soil and vegetation in a constructed technique, such as rain gardens or green roofs, to mimic natural hydrologic processes like percolation through soil and plant uptake and transpiration.

We developed the idea of a dynamic roof form which can extend the height of the one - story building with a sloping factory - like canopy that enhances daylighting with clerestories and directs runoff to a rain garden in the rear of the site.»

Sweet the rain's new fall, sunlit from heaven Like the first dewfall, on the first grass Praise for the sweetness of the wet garden Sprung in completeness where his feet pass