Sentences with phrase «of rain barrel»

Many varieties of rain barrel systems, starting at just $ 100, are available for home installation.

We didn't either until the Art of Rain Barrels got us up to speed on on recent activity at the Halsey Street Dreamway.

Not exact matches

Coke Consolidated repurposes its 55 - gallon syrup drums as recycle bins and rain barrels provided free of charge to partners and customers.

It features a large colorful boat with interactive water features, a tot slide, arched rain «showers» with shark fins, barrels of water and so much more.

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.

The Rain Barrel Painting Contest for schools and student - based community groups in Erie and Niagara counties is held annually in honor of Earth Day!

With a rain barrel, gardeners can minimize or eliminate their use of chemical fertilizers.

Erie County, in partnership with the City of Buffalo and the Western NY Stormwater Coalition, is once again selling rain barrels and compost bins!

Erie County, in partnership with the City of Buffalo and the WNY Stormwater Coalition, is offering rain barrels and compost bins to encourage households to reduce their environmental footprint through water conservation and reduced fertilizer use.

It's raining steadily, and the moss beneath our feet is slick, but Stamets, 57, barrels across it like a grizzly bear heading for a stump full of honey.

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.

Christopher Miles With our white roof, our townhome is (relatively) cool - also have plenty of water in rain capture barrel to pour over the head.

Another way to look at this is to think of chronic Lyme dis - ease as a rain barrel that is overflowing.

Harlow plays Hollywood superstar Lola Burns, a not - so - thinly veiled riff in her own persona (in one scene, she's called in for retakes on the Red Dust rain barrel scene, certainly one of the real - life Harlow's most famous screen moments), and Lee Tracy is pure mercenary drive as an unscrupulous publicist who actually enjoys the torment he puts her through as he manufactures scandals and breaks up romances with his con - man shenanigans.

Painting rain barrels that would be distributed in the community was part of their plan, as they studied the water cycle.

Although Cordoba died in early 2013, the resourceful Alvarenga fought on, devising ways to catch fish, turtles and birds, and constructing a makeshift rain barrel out of plastic bottles found in the ocean.

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.

And now for the punch line, the narrator chuckling in advance, although so far her story hadn't been all that funny: «And imagine, three days later their daughter is going through the garden looking for anything of use, and right behind the rain barrel she stumbles on one of her Papa's arms.»

Although 2016 was a year of extreme weather in the Ments with a constant North wind and lots of rain, we were still blessed by many empty barrels and low crowds around the islands...

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).

Looking out at the endless expanse of development across the sprawling basin, it's hard to believe there's water in them there hills and valleys but what's clear is that I need to get a rain barrel.

Give gifts of time — if you have a skill to share, consider offering it as a gift to a friend or family member (perhaps create a little coupon book that can be wrapped); offer your babysitting, pet - sitting or house - sitting services; or help someone green their home by offering to help them set up a compost system or rain barrels.

By the end of our discussion, we were considering setting up rain barrels other finding ways of catching water before it heads either down the drain or down the driveway.

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.

Communities throughout Louisiana are being flooded as torrential rain barreled down in southeastern Louisiana and parts of southern Mississippi.

LID techniques include the use of open swales, infiltration basins, vegetative buffers, rain gardens, rain barrels, maintaining natural topography, use of wetlands, and maintaining land cover.

Investing in or making a rain barrel will give you a nice supply of water if a water hook up and a hose isn't possible.

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.

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.

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

And what the rest of coastal USA is doing about this, has nothing to do with rain barrels, oyster reefs, buffer zone plantings, Bacterra Storm Water Filters, picking up soda cans in the marshes and some of the other feel good - do nothing projects that the Virginian Pilot has been promoting to an incredibly naïve local population for several years now.

Cisterns and rain barrels are watertight receptacles designed to catch and store stormwater off of roofs and other impervious surfaces.

He's also well - known for his green touring habits — which includes all the backstage stuff and is a fan of collecting rainwater with rain barrels when it comes to eco-actions in the home.

(These rain barrel restrictions are as counterproductive and indefensible as the General Mining Act of 1872 that governs public lands).

Chances are there's something on your «to - do» list for the planet — whether it's replacing the front lawn with a veggie garden, installing rain barrels, getting a bus pass or kicking the bottled water habit, most of us have something we've been meaning to change in order to reduce our environmental impact, save money and live better.

Director of Organizational and Higher Education Partnerships Deborah McNamara will be doing daily nature based activities with her three young boys — and will also conduct an energy audit and install a rain barrel at home.

Perhaps further iterations of this device can be connected to a rain barrel so that I won't even have to worry about refilling my reservoir, and the entire system can be fully automated.»

«Five proposed schoolyards in Brooklyn and Queens are undergoing soil tests, and if selected they will be transformed into public playgrounds with storm water - capture features such as rain barrels, raised gardens, porous pavers and an under - layer of gravel that holds water during a storm, before allowing it to seep gradually into the ground below, city DEP Commissioner Carter Strickland said.»

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«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.

Rain barrels are becoming increasingly popular because the water is free, it's softer and chlorine - free and, perhaps best of all, it's a huge boost to the environment because it reduces the energy used by municipalities to treat and pump potable water and sewage.

A rain barrel, which captures and stores rain water, can be used as a source of irrigation water.

You can watch a quick video of me installing a rain barrel at DoYourPart.com/Columns.

And, instead of using expensive irrigation systems in your yard, rain barrels or other collection devices will do the work for free.

«One of our members painted her rain barrel to blend into the brickwork and siding of her home — pretty clever,» says Wool.

we recycle aluminum, plastic and newsprint (avialable in our area), we use a rain barrel to water our outdoor plants in the warm months, we have cut back on using paper towels by using cloth including cloth napkins, for my children's lunches we use containers instead of baggies, left over coffee grounds are used for the base of plants (my great grandmother did this also!)

Except for the rain barrels (which I'm hoping to do this summer), we've implemented all of the «green» ideas in your post.