Sentences with phrase «rainwater gardens»

Green roofs, green streets, rainwater gardens, and bioswales can absorb storm water runoff, while also cooling city blocks suffering from the urban heat - island effect during hot summers.

But Homestead Economics has a neat video of their rainwater garden system, which collects stormwater runoff from a long dirt driveway, diverts it to carefully designed grow beds surrounded by a berm, and then collects any excess water in a retention pond for future irrigation.

Not exact matches

Also have rainwater tanks for the garden.

The rainwater is then used for the Okanis garden.

The underground cistern captures rainwater and then repurposes it to irrigate the Elsie Jacobsen Discovery Garden.

By using harvested rainwater for watering lawns, watering gardens and potted plants, and for washing cars, rain barrels conserve water.

Without trees and soil to soak up rainwater, flash floods routinely knock out valley homes and subsistence gardens.

Of course, most of us would only use rainwater to irrigate our lawn or garden, and there should be plenty to go around for doing that in all but the most drought stricken areas.

A rain garden is a landscaped area planted preferably with wildflowers and other native vegetation that soak up rainwater, from the roofs, driveways or other impervious surfaces.

In just one example, I used the calculations found in the Grow Your Own Groceries CD set to figure out how much rainwater I could collect from my house roof — and how much water I might need to keep my garden alive.

Principal Tim Lauer, now in his seventh year at Lewis, has watched his outdoor learning space expand to include raised garden beds, greenhouses, composting bins, and even an outdoor classroom complete with eco-roof and barrels for harvesting rainwater.

Putting that plan into action, Common Ground routinely plants trees with its students, teaches them about sustainability by gardening and farming right on the school grounds, and recently unveiled their new sustainable building which uses geothermal, solar, and a rainwater treatment system.

Among its many features the school has 30 garden beds, a butterfly habitat and rainwater collection.

Because they don't have a well and live outside any public water system, they haul water each week for their holding tank and gather rainwater for their animals and garden.

If you collect rainwater for gardening and composting, be sure to water your plants regularly to deplete the supply.

From cascading falls to tropical gardens, the hot springs are the result of rainwater heated by magma in the Earth's interior.

, the vessel contains sustainable projects on board, including solar power, rainwater collection and vegetable gardening.

Sustainable technologies (off grid solar, rainwater capture / treatment, etc) and micro-furnishing options are on display, as well as an organic garden.

The garden will consist of planters sized for the growing of fruit, vegetables and herbs, while the sloping profile of the roof walls will guide rainwater down to a holding tank for watering food plants.

It is a Whole Earth Catalogue of green systems, with a rainwater collection system; hydroponic garden to grown food for the community; biological wastewater treatment system to convert black water to greywater and potable water; earth tubes to funnel clean, natural air into the building through underground ducts; vertical axis wind turbines and solar panels for on - site green energy; and hydrogen fuel cells powered by methane, a byproduct of the wastewater treatment system.

And this building which will have rooftop gardens, water heated by solar, rainwater collection, natural light and ventilation and environmentally sensitive building materials will be deep in the heart of West Harlem (on 150th Street and Convent, for all you New Yorkers).

In addition, some of us were eating less meat, bicycling for errands and to meetings, one had a rainwater collection system, a couple had organic gardens, two had completely retrofitted their houses with thick insulation, good windows, heat pumps, energy - sipping appliances, and supplied their own electricity with lots of rooftop solar panels.

The community also received harvesting tanks for rainwaters and vegetable gardens to grow their own food.

The Rain Garden uses no power and is sustained solely by rainwater.

The Gregory Elementary OFG is now a beautiful example of how gardens can be maintained to capture and soak up rainwater and prevent stormwater runoff from occurring.

Green infrastructure can be integrated in urban and suburban landscapes in the form of street trees, permeable pavement, rain gardens, rainwater harvesting, and detention structures.

Metal roofing panels complete the roof exterior, allowing Dan to harvest rainwater for the rich vegetable garden growing outside Wisteria's front door.

On the local level, green infrastructure practices include rain gardens, permeable pavements, green roofs, infiltration planters, trees and tree boxes, and rainwater harvesting systems.

The house also has extensive green roofs, and a 1000 litre tank that stores rainwater for toilets and gardening.

Water: Kingspan Environmental rainwater harvesting systems feeding a tap in the garden for watering plants and washing cars

(above, clockwise from top left) the walls of the eight units at Garville Drive were constructed from traditional concrete - block cavity - walls, with 100 mm of Xtratherm full - fill Cavitytherm board between the inner and outer leafs; Gyproc Airtite Quiet plaster behind 25 mm battens for the internal service cavity prior to installation of plasterboard, with airtightness detailing of key junctions using Siga tapes also visible; 150 mm Paratherm PIR insulation on the flat roof, part of a Moy extensive green roof system; a Kingspan Environmental rainwater harvesting system feeds garden garden taps at the development.

The design includes several homes clustered to benefit from roof gardens, building integrated photovoltaics, passive solar strategies, a rainwater recovery system, and sliding, removable, and bendable walls and partitions for flexible occupant use of space.

Building a rainwater AND greywater harvesting system... 22 Lesson Plans for grades 4 to High School... Rain water gardens to control runoff...

The Geo 6 is fed by 600 meters of 40 mm horizontal collectors — half buried in a field, half buried in tight coils strategically located in the garden — about 180m in two layers under the rainwater soakaway, and then 60m vertically coiled surrounding the concrete septic tank.

In the yard, we want to create a retreat like planting extravaganza — espaliered fruit trees along the fence, rainwater collection, veggie garden, low water plants and grasses, vine trellises an outside shower and more.

private and communal rainwater cisterns will provide irrigation for edible green roofs, community and private edible gardens, fruit bearing vegetation, and vertical gardens that will inhabit the facades, laneway, and yards and spaces between buildings.

So far, six households in the neighborhood are engaged in the experiment to live more consciously through a variety of low (er)- tech practices such as organic gardening, rainwater harvesting, greywater recycling, renewable energy generation and even cleaning polluted well water with a living machine.

In addition, the house is surrounded by small tanks that collect rainwater used to maintain the gardens.

Among the features envisioned for the green club are energy - generating dance floors (see the video), toilets flushed with rainwater, walls that change color in response to temperature fluctuations, and a rooftop garden where clubbers can enjoy an organic beer with friends.

It's perhaps less well know, though, that rainwater harvesting can also benefit the plants in your garden too.

According to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, the benefits of harvested rainwater include that it typically has fewer contaminants, it is kept at a luke warm temperature and thus doesn't shock plant roots as tap water can, and it also is not treated with chlorine, a chemical which may destroy soil microbes and inhibit plant growth.

The bush location beside a river embodies these principles via permaculture gardens, solar power, solar hot water rainwater collection, greywater recycling, reuse of secondhand materials, habitat restoration, and so much more.

From rainwater collection to the subconscious In the images below you can see work by Jordi Canudas (below left), his Rain Catcher shows a beautiful and simple solution to rainwater collection for those without a garden.

Drainage conduit was embedded with the gravel in order to channel rainwater away from the foundation and into his garden, which is rampant this time of year with gooseberries, elderberries and currants.

Kids Rethink New Orleans Schools designed a circular structure which includes solar panels that produce electricity and a cistern to collect rainwater for the school garden.

Set up a backyard rainwater collection system or plant a «water-wise garden» of native species that are well - equipped for the local climate.

The system is expected to irrigate the garden with rainwater 10 months out of the year.