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Create Your Raingarden, Next Saturday, 9/22/12

September 15, 2012 by Ecology Center

What does your rain garden look like? The fourth event in our “Reclaim, Rebuild, Reskill” series will provide tools and inspiration for integrating water into the landscape. This workshop and skillshare will begin with a slideshow on raingardens and innovative ways to capture and use water, will include a tour of the EcoHouse water features,… Read more »

This Saturday, EcoHouse Class and Poetry Event

June 21, 2012 by Ecology Center

We’ve got two events for your consideration this Saturday, June 23rd. First up, in the morning at the EcoHouse, we will have a tour and discussion of all the water saving features incorporated into the yard there. If you’re curious to learn more about rainwater catchment, greywater and rain garden features, this class will provide… Read more »

Creating Rain Gardens Ecology Center Store Event, Thursday, 5/3/12

April 28, 2012 by Ecology Center

Learn how to collect rain to reuse in your front or backyard. Water conservation experts Cleo Woelfle-Erskine and Apryl Uncapher will talk about their new book, Creating Rain Gardens, covering everything from rain barrels to simple living roofs, permeable patios, and other low-tech affordable ways to save water in the garden. The authors walk… Read more »

Greywater, Rainwater Catchment, Earthworks Tour at the EcoHouse, Sunday, 4/29/12

April 21, 2012 by Ecology Center

With the warm weather here and the recent rains still within memory, this tour will provide an overview of water saving landscapes in action! The EcoHouse will host a tour next Sunday, showing how you can turn your house and yard into a water saving site with greywater systems, rainwater catchment, earthworks, and appropriate landscaping… Read more »

Ecological Design Tour of EcoHouse, this Sunday 4/1/12

March 29, 2012 by Ecology Center

This is a new focus for an EcoHouse tour, so we’re excited to offer it this weekend! Get inspired to manifest your sustainable dream house. Some of the Bay Area’s finest designers and builders collaborated to create this example of a single family residence that boasts locally available, non-toxic materials, living architecture, greywater irrigation, rainwater… Read more »