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2 produkter
2 produkter
Del 11 - Sustainable Building Essentials Series
Essential Rainwater Harvesting
A Guide to Home-Scale System Design
Häftad, Engelska, 2018
371 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Secure Your Water Supply with a Custom Rainwater Harvesting System Part of the Sustainable Building Essentials series, Essential Rainwater Harvesting is the complete guide to designing, building, and maintaining rainwater systems for any home, acreage, or farm. Learn how to turn rainfall into a reliable, sustainable water source—even in arid or extreme climates.What You'll Learn Water Security and Independence: Harvest and manage rainwater to supplement or replace municipal or well water for your home or property.Smart Planning and Conservation: Assess demand, optimize water use, and plan for droughts or extreme rainfall.Custom System Design: Determine the right gutters, conveyance, tanks, pumps, and filtration methods for your site.Water Quality Management: Pre-filtration, filtration, and disinfection strategies ensure safe, reliable water.Step-by-step Installation Guidance: Detailed, practical instructions for DIYers, tradespeople, and sustainability practitioners.Maintenance and Longevity: Learn methods to keep your system efficient, reliable, and long-lasting.Written by Rob and Michelle Avis, engineers and permaculture designers with decades of experience, this guide combines practical know-how, technical rigor, and site-specific strategies for designing rainwater systems anywhere in the world.Explore the full Sustainable Building Essentials series for illustrated, hands-on guidance on sustainable building systems, high-performance homes, and environmentally responsible construction.
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
393 kr
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The best person to design the property of your dreams is you. This book gives you the tools to succeed. Building Your Permaculture Property offers a revolutionary holistic method to overcome overwhelm in the complex process of resilient land design. It distills the authors' decades of experience as engineers, farmers, educators, and consultants into a five-step process complete with principles, practices, templates, and workflow tools to help you:Clarify your vision, values, and resourcesDiagnose your land and resources for strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threatsDesign your land and resources to meet your vision and valuesImplement the right design to enhance your strengths and improve your weakest resourceEstablish benchmarks to monitor the sustainability and success of your development.When designing a regenerative permaculture property, too many land stewards suffer from option paralysis, a lack of integrated holistic design, fruitless trial-and-error attempts, wasted money, and the frustration that results from too much information and no context.Building Your Permaculture Property is the essential guide for everyone looking to cut through the noise and establish an ecologically regenerative, financially sustainable, enjoyable, and thriving permaculture property, anywhere in the world.