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The Walden School in Pasadena Cal­i­for­nia is ready to har­vest rain­wa­ter for veg­etable beds using a newly installed rain­wa­ter har­vest­ing sys­tem. For the tank, Walden School par­ents, staff and stu­dents chose a steel culvert-style cis­tern. What is a culvert-style cis­tern? A cul­vert cis­tern is a method of cre­at­ing a tank by insert­ing (stand­ing on end) […]

Mark gave a great talk in Marina Del Rey last Thurs­day. Mark is pres­i­dent of Heal the Bay healthebay.org. He spoke on one of my favorite top­ics: Rain­wa­ter Har­vest­ing. The room was full of county and city offi­cials, and con­stituents. The com­mu­nity is tight amongst those types. By that I mean most of them seemed […]

On June 4, 2011, smil­ing faces with intent to learn and min­gle arrived at the Treep­eo­ple head­quar­ters in Bev­erly Hills. Ven­dors of green prod­ucts and ser­vices were strate­gi­cally placed on the recently upgraded site. Treep­eo­ple staff and vol­un­teers were teach­ing, learn­ing, and serv­ing. Short Talks given by local experts were cen­tral to the agenda of […]

At the last ARCSA arcsa.org con­fer­ence in Austin, Texas I met Cat­low Shipek at Water­shed Man­age­ment Group watershedmg.org. He rec­om­mended I take their 10 day course on water har­vest­ing that empha­sizes inte­grated design. The course slams info on pas­sive and active rain­wa­ter har­vest­ing, grey­wa­ter har­vestng, and inte­grated design with a per­ma­cul­ture sen­si­bil­ity. The days are […]

Los Ange­les Times Reported May, 15th that in order to meet an antic­i­pated 15% in increase in demand by 2030, the city of Los Ange­les will enact sweep­ing changes to move the city towards greater water inde­pen­dence. Part of the plan would be revised build­ing codes and finan­cial incen­tives for devel­op­ers to incor­po­rate high-tech conservation […]