This Rain-Powered AC Is Cooling Down The Streets

Brad Lancaster shows how native food-bearing trees and understory vegetation planted within or beside passive rain- and stormwater-harvesting rain gardens is able to shade and cool the neighborhood street by over 38˚F or 21˚C!

It is not just the shade that cools. It is also the cooling effect of the passively harvested water that cycles through the life of the soil-carbon sponge. For more on the soil-carbon sponge see: https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/2...

This is also a great flood-control system in wet times; mitigates drought in dry times; and improves our air, mood, and wildlife habitat all the time.

We are able to harvest over one million gallons of street runoff per mile per year from our neighborhood streets by directing that water to sufficiently sized rain gardens, rather than the storm drain!

This was filmed September 2022 in the Dunbar/Spring Neighborhood of Tucson, AZ


Get more info on how to do this and harvest many other free, on-site waters at:
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where you can buy the new full-color editions of Brad's award-winning books, "Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond" at deep discount direct from Brad at:
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For more on such neighborhood efforts see
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