Water - or Lack Thereof

My Rain Barrel Round-Up combines information from real-life rain barrel users across the country with my own research.  Your input is welcome.

Watering

"Everything you need to know about watering" in Slate Magazine is a good one..

And here's one more overview about Watering Your Garden - because doing it wrong is how most people kill their plants.

Drought!

The drought of 2007 got me ranting to the readers of my newspaper column in this piece: What, Me Water?  A Cautionary Tale and Rant.

Here's a recent and terrific newspaper article about the many ways we can adjust to increasing and worsening droughts.

I chronicled my own experiences of adapting to drought, and Amy Stewart continued the discussion.  Don't miss the great comments to both articles.

WaterConserve.org is a good source of info.

Here's NC State's compilation of Water Conservation information.

Rain Gardens

rain garden

Here's a nonprofit site with great info on rain gardens.

Kansas City has this cool initiative to promote rain gardens.

This University of Rhode Island site has more good links.

From Georgia, this newspaper article:  Rain Gardens to Clean Stormwater

In Des Moines Register an article about Rain Garden as Key to Run-off

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Green Roofs

Here's what the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has to say on the subject.

Green Roof Plants is THE supplier for at least half of North America, and the owners have written the hot new book on the subject: Green Roof Plants.

Green Roofs.Org is an industry group and a good place to find suppliers.

More on Polluting our Waterways - Not!

My article about environmentally friendly lawn care points to synthetic lawn fertilizer as an even greater source of pollution than agriculture.

SafeLawns.org is a broad coalition and the goal is turning the juggernaut of synthetic lawn care toward the organic.  Not an easy thing to do but important! 

More Good Information in Print