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15 years go I met Brad Lancaster in a Chinese Martial Arts class here in Tucson, AZ. Brad was passionately deveoted to building awareness and support for Rainwater Harvesting for Dry Lands. His tireless efforts have proved very successful.
http://www.harvestingrainwater.com/
Tucson is recognized as a world leader in sustainable technology thanks, in part, to his efforts.
Meaningful change is difficult and hard to maintain.
Congratulations Brad on your continued success!
Best regards,
Kelley G.
Tucson First In The Nation
Rethinking runoff as usable water supply
azcentral.com
Rethinking runoff as usable water supply, In the search for new water sources, rainwater advocates say, the most obvious place to look is up. Water that falls from the sky, they say, should be treated like the gift that it is...
Drops In A Bucket
September 22nd
by Brad Lancaster © 2011
www.HarvestingRainwater.com
A watershed is “that area of land, a bounded hydrological system, within which all living things are inextricably linked by their common water course and where, as humans settled, simple logic demanded ...
September 14th
by Brad Lancaster © 2011
www.HarvestingRainwater.com
Show the flow. Cycle it. Celebrate it. Know it. And as you do, show others the way.
The following three images are installations that I feel show and celebrate the flow. Their beauty lures me in, and in...
September 4th
by Brad Lancaster © 2011
www.HarvestingRainwater.com
There is a tradition of harvesting rainwater in all human-inhabited drylands of the world where it rains (and a great many wet areas that also experience dry seasons). I’ve been very lucky to have...
July 21st
by Brad Lancaster © 2011
www.HarvestingRainwater.com
Brad transporting plants
Years ago at a red light I looked into the car beside me and saw the frowning driver’s hair blowing into the back seat as though she were leaning into a mighty storm. But her wi...
July 8th
All photos and text by Brad Lancaster, www.HarvestingRainwater.com © 2011
This is number six in a series of Drops in a Bucket Blog posts on Brad Lancaster’s water wanderings in the Middle East; this trip led in part to Volume 1 of Rainwater Harvesting for...
September 6th
by Brad Lancaster, www.HarvestingRainwater.com, © 2010
Jordan Valley, Jordan, 2009
One day my guides Mohammed Ayesh of NCARE and Iqbal of JOHUD took me to an oasis.
The village we were in was strewn with garbage, and the soil was bare and severely eroded....
August 23rd
by Brad Lancaster, www.HarvestingRainwater.com, © 2010
Number 4 in a series of Drops in a Bucket blog posts on Brad Lancaster’s and David Eisenberg’s U.S. State Department-sponsored adventures and gleanings in the Middle East
Northern Jordan, April 2009
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July 25th
by Brad Lancaster, www.HarvestingRainwater.com, © 2010
Number 3 in a series of Drops in a Bucket blog entries on Brad Lancaster’s and David Eisenberg’s U.S. State Department-sponsored adventures and gleanings in the Middle East
Al Absaa, Saudi Arabia, Apr...
July 18th
or If You Pray for Rain – Harvest It
By Brad Lancaster, www.HarvestingRainwater.com, ©2010
Number 2 in a series of Drops in a Bucket blog entries on Brad Lancaster’s and David Eisenberg’s U.S. State Department-sponsored adventures and gleanings in t...
July 8th
or If You and Your Drink Sweat, Then Harvest Condensate
By Brad Lancaster, www.HarvestingRainwater.com, ©2010
I am finally getting to the sharing of my travel gleanings. This is the first of a series to follow – so keep checking back. This piece is from m...