Green Wall
GREEN WALL
Potable Water
- Chlorine to treat your drinking water for germs? Use a Ultra Violet Sterilizer instead!
- Chlorine to treat your drinking water for germs? Use a Ultra Violet Sterilizer instead!
Landscape Accents
- Think about the possibility of recycled Glass!
- Think about the possibility of recycled Glass!
Water Softeners
- Don’t waste water and inject dangerous salts into our aquifer. Try conditioning your water instead as it leaves your water meter and condition all the water instead of just your drinking water!
- Don’t waste water and inject dangerous salts into our aquifer. Try conditioning your water instead as it leaves your water meter and condition all the water instead of just your drinking water!
Lawn Irrigation
- As an alternative to water hungry lawn sprinklers, think about New Technology Sprayers that put out larger water droplets, therefore denying air movement the ability to blow water around or the heat of the day to evaporate water before it even hits the ground. Also as another alternative, the use of SubSurface Emitterline, instead of any kind of sprayers at all can save up to 75% of your water consumption.
- As an alternative to water hungry lawn sprinklers, think about New Technology Sprayers that put out larger water droplets, therefore denying air movement the ability to blow water around or the heat of the day to evaporate water before it even hits the ground. Also as another alternative, the use of SubSurface Emitterline, instead of any kind of sprayers at all can save up to 75% of your water consumption.
Irrigation Timers
- Don’t depend on a program to determine how much water your landscape needs. Let Mother Nature do it. Utilize sensors that can be added to most irrigation controllers to tell the timer when to come on and when not to, based upon moisture, wind, ice, etc. This saves a lot of water.
- Don’t depend on a program to determine how much water your landscape needs. Let Mother Nature do it. Utilize sensors that can be added to most irrigation controllers to tell the timer when to come on and when not to, based upon moisture, wind, ice, etc. This saves a lot of water.
Soil Moisture
- Don’t let our hot environment suck all the moisture out of the soil sooner than you want. Adding a Polyacrlimade to your soil at planting time will turn your soil into a water absorbing sponge, that slowly lets water go out to the plants roots over time.
- Don’t let our hot environment suck all the moisture out of the soil sooner than you want. Adding a Polyacrlimade to your soil at planting time will turn your soil into a water absorbing sponge, that slowly lets water go out to the plants roots over time.
Soil Health
- Adding Effective Micro-Organisms to your soil will in essence “Grow” your soil into a healthy happy community for the roots of your plants to enjoy. Ancient soils had everything that was needed for plants in any given area to grow properly. This has slowly been engineered out of our soils by the impact that we have had on Mother Nature over the millennia and as our soils are degraded, plants have a harder time growing due to the stresses involved in lack of water and soil nutrients. EM’s have the uncanny ability to right most of those wrongs. Also try using red worms and leaf mulch on your garden. Between the EM’s and the red worms, you will not need to aerate your garden between cycles with a roto-tiller ever again, hence a No-Till Garden.
- Adding Effective Micro-Organisms to your soil will in essence “Grow” your soil into a healthy happy community for the roots of your plants to enjoy. Ancient soils had everything that was needed for plants in any given area to grow properly. This has slowly been engineered out of our soils by the impact that we have had on Mother Nature over the millennia and as our soils are degraded, plants have a harder time growing due to the stresses involved in lack of water and soil nutrients. EM’s have the uncanny ability to right most of those wrongs. Also try using red worms and leaf mulch on your garden. Between the EM’s and the red worms, you will not need to aerate your garden between cycles with a roto-tiller ever again, hence a No-Till Garden.
Grey Water
- Don’t let that used water go down the drain to the sewage plant. Use it on site. Use grey water from bathroom sinks and showers and conduct it to a couple of large trees outside of the home. The trees will appreciate the water and you will appreciate not having to double down on your irrigation costs for the biggest water consumers on your property. As long as water is emitted underground and is from Grey Water sources only, this is a legal form of grey water use.
- Don’t let that used water go down the drain to the sewage plant. Use it on site. Use grey water from bathroom sinks and showers and conduct it to a couple of large trees outside of the home. The trees will appreciate the water and you will appreciate not having to double down on your irrigation costs for the biggest water consumers on your property. As long as water is emitted underground and is from Grey Water sources only, this is a legal form of grey water use.
Rain Water Harvesting
- Utilizing “Active” (conducting water from downspouts to pipes and tanks for later use) and “Passive” (utilizing dirt works and terracing to slow water down and getting it to percolate where you want it) are different means of collecting rainwater. They can both be used very effectively, but passive means should always be used to their fullest extent first, before exploring more active systems.
- Utilizing “Active” (conducting water from downspouts to pipes and tanks for later use) and “Passive” (utilizing dirt works and terracing to slow water down and getting it to percolate where you want it) are different means of collecting rainwater. They can both be used very effectively, but passive means should always be used to their fullest extent first, before exploring more active systems.
Water Appliances- Indoor water users, such as faucets, toilets, dish washers, clothes washers and shower heads can in most cases easily be improved upon by, buying more efficient products.
Lighting
- Indoor and outdoor lighting has come a long ways since the advent of those little light emitting diodes or LED’s for short. Utilizing quality versions of these options for emitting light where you need it, can save you a small boatload of money over the years. At 10-20 percent of the wattage needed to drive Halogen or the incandescent counterparts, these little LED emitters can light your world at a fraction of the cost. Beware you will pay more up front for quality LED fixtures, but your cost savings quickly add up, as more fixtures can go on the same circuit saving money in wire and transformer costs.
- Indoor and outdoor lighting has come a long ways since the advent of those little light emitting diodes or LED’s for short. Utilizing quality versions of these options for emitting light where you need it, can save you a small boatload of money over the years. At 10-20 percent of the wattage needed to drive Halogen or the incandescent counterparts, these little LED emitters can light your world at a fraction of the cost. Beware you will pay more up front for quality LED fixtures, but your cost savings quickly add up, as more fixtures can go on the same circuit saving money in wire and transformer costs.
Energy
- Utilizing “Active” (photovoltaic, hydro-generation, wind turbines, etc) and “Passive” (materials you build your structure out of, direction you face your structure, limiting your footprint, etc) are different ways of utilizing energy. One way is to gather energy to power the things that you use, the other is the conservation approach by appropriate building techniques and limiting what you use. Again it is always best to exhaust the passive approach first, before getting into active systems.
The overriding tenet here, with regards to how you approach the use of your property, is to think of what you can accomplish without the advent of the modern age to help you in day to day operations. In other words create passive systems to do the things you want to accomplish, such as the ones listed above.
Secondly, once you have taken care of everything you can in a passive fashion, use the hell out of those modern inventions to do the rest !! We have got some fantastic advances in technology with regards to how we collect and use energy to achieve what we want.