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Full-Text Articles in Architecture
Slotted Drainage Pipe For Sub-Irrigation, David A. Bainbridge
Slotted Drainage Pipe For Sub-Irrigation, David A. Bainbridge
David A Bainbridge
Subirrigation with drainage pipe was effective for planting a windbreak in the Mojave Desert. The pipe was refilled periodically with a water truck. Survival was very good.
Capillary Wick Irrigation For A Pot From A Reservoir, David A. Bainbridge
Capillary Wick Irrigation For A Pot From A Reservoir, David A. Bainbridge
David A Bainbridge
Capillary wicks are very effective for watering container plants. Ideal for water wise gardens, landscaping and interior plants capes.
Gardening With Less Water -- Access To Literature, David A. Bainbridge
Gardening With Less Water -- Access To Literature, David A. Bainbridge
David A Bainbridge
Super efficient irrigation systems can reduce water use and weeding dramatically. In many cases the savings are from 50-90% These systems have also been shown to increase plant health, hasten maturity and increase yields.
Upgrade A Hanging Basket With A Capillary Wick Irrigation System, David A. Bainbridge
Upgrade A Hanging Basket With A Capillary Wick Irrigation System, David A. Bainbridge
David A Bainbridge
Capillary wicks can improve health and performance of container plants. Plants in hanging baskets benefit from steady and very efficient water supply from a reservoir.
Gwlw Suppliers, Videos And More, David A. Bainbridge
Gwlw Suppliers, Videos And More, David A. Bainbridge
David A Bainbridge
Super efficient irrigation systems can be made with simple materials. These can cut water use and weeding 50-90% and improve plant health, speed maturity and increase yield.
Light Shelves For Daylighting, David A. Bainbridge, Rachel Aljilani
Light Shelves For Daylighting, David A. Bainbridge, Rachel Aljilani
David A Bainbridge
Light shelves are one of the best methods for daylighting buildings. The cost is low and performance is excellent. Learn how to do it with this presentation
Planting Desert Sites, David A. Bainbridge
Planting Desert Sites, David A. Bainbridge
David A Bainbridge
Desert planting requires great care in preparing plants, handling plants and planting. With proper consideration of soil, climate and water availability plants can be established despite severe conditions of high temperatures, high winds, herbivory and lack of water.
Site Assessment For Environmental Restoration, David A. Bainbridge
Site Assessment For Environmental Restoration, David A. Bainbridge
David A Bainbridge
Restoring degraded desert ecosystems is challenging but it can be done. The first key step is understanding the site history and understanding the disturbance and current site conditions. With this information the appropriate steps can be taken to improve the site ecosystem function and structure.
Container Plants For Desert Restoration, David A. Bainbridge
Container Plants For Desert Restoration, David A. Bainbridge
David A Bainbridge
Container planting is essential for most desert restoration work because direct seeding is rarely successful. The containers best suited for desert planting are often taller (deeper) to facilitate root development. Fertilizer management, inoculation, irrigation and pruning can be used to maximize root growth with minimal shoot development.
Buried Clay Pipe Irrigation, David A. Bainbridge
Buried Clay Pipe Irrigation, David A. Bainbridge
David A Bainbridge
The buried clay pipe method of irrigation is one of the most efficient systems known and is ideal for gardeners and small farmers. Buried clay pipe irrigation uses a buried, unglazed clay pipe filled with water to provide controlled irrigation to plants as the water seeps out through the clay wall at a rate that is influenced by the plant's water use. It has been used for more than one hundred years.This auto-regulation leads to very high efficiency--considerably better than drip irrigation and many times better than conventional surface irrigation. This also reduces weeds, increases yields, and can speed maturity …
Wick Irrigation, David A. Bainbridge
Wick Irrigation, David A. Bainbridge
David A Bainbridge
Wick irrigation offers the potential for very low cost, robust microirrigation in difficult environments. Wick irrigation was first used in India in combination with buried clay pot irrigation. It has proven itself in the most severe desert conditions.
Straw Bale Building, David A. Bainbridge
Straw Bale Building, David A. Bainbridge
David A Bainbridge
Straw bale building offers many advantages, high insulation value, thermal mass of interior plaster, resistance to fire, and low embodied resource cost. Super-insulation becomes possible at affordable prices with straw bales. Used with great success for both residential and commercial building projects.
Super Efficient Irrigation With Buried Clay Pots, David A. Bainbridge
Super Efficient Irrigation With Buried Clay Pots, David A. Bainbridge
David A Bainbridge
Buried clay pot irrigation was first described in an agricultural extension bulletin in China more than 2000 years ago. The clay pot provides demand responsive irrigation at very high efficiency. Clay pot irrigation can be 5-10 times more efficient than conventional irrigation. It is being used more widely in Asia, Africa, Latin American and the US.
Porous Capsule Irrigation, David A. Bainbridge
Porous Capsule Irrigation, David A. Bainbridge
David A Bainbridge
Porous capsule irrigation is a modern adaptation of buried clay pot irrigation. Research in Brazil and Mexico has demonstrated its value in improving water use efficiency. Porous capsules are more easily integrated in an irrigation network than buried clay pots.
Buried Clay Pot Irrigation, David A. Bainbridge
Buried Clay Pot Irrigation, David A. Bainbridge
David A Bainbridge
Buried clay pot irrigation was first described in Chinese texts from more than 2000 years ago. It uses a porous clay pot to provide demand responsive irrigation. Efficiency is often 3-10 times conventional surface irrigation.
Passive Solar Design, David A. Bainbridge
Passive Solar Design, David A. Bainbridge
David A Bainbridge
Passive solar architecture can provide heating, cooling, ventilation and daylighting by using the sun and microclimate resources. Building energy consumption can be cut 80-90% at no increase in building cost by using integrated design principles.
Solar Hot Water, Daylighting, David A. Bainbridge
Solar Hot Water, Daylighting, David A. Bainbridge
David A Bainbridge
An introduction to several lab exercises. For the complete manual go to www.sustainabilityleader.org
Alternative "More Efficient" Irrigation Systems, David A. Bainbridge
Alternative "More Efficient" Irrigation Systems, David A. Bainbridge
David A Bainbridge
Many traditional irrigation systems work well for ecological restoration projects. These demand responsive systems are very water efficient and robust and have proved themselves in the most extreme desert conditions.
Water Walls: An Effective Option For High Performance Buildings, David A. Bainbridge
Water Walls: An Effective Option For High Performance Buildings, David A. Bainbridge
David A Bainbridge
Water wall thermal mass has been proven over the last 40 years on a wide range of residential and commercial projects in temperate and cold climates. It provides better thermal comfort and more efficient energy transfer at reasonable cost.
True Cost Accounting For A Post-Autistic Economy, David A. Bainbridge
True Cost Accounting For A Post-Autistic Economy, David A. Bainbridge
David A Bainbridge
True cost accounting includes all environmental and social costs. If these are neglected the market fails. The critical link between ecosystem and humanity and the price of goods has been ignored at our peril.
Adding Ecological Considerations To Environmental Accounting, David A. Bainbridge
Adding Ecological Considerations To Environmental Accounting, David A. Bainbridge
David A Bainbridge
Environmental accounting has often neglected ecological costs. These are essential to complete a true cost accounting. Ecological costs are often very large and long term and if they are ignored the costs/benefits of projects are incorrectly calculated.
Acorn Use As Food, David A. Bainbridge
Acorn Use As Food, David A. Bainbridge
David A Bainbridge
The acorns from oaks (Quercus) and tan oaks (Lithocarpus) have been used as food for many thousands of years. They occur in the archaeological record of the early town sites in the Zagros Mountains, at Catal Hüyük (6000 BC), and oak trees were carefully inventoried by the Assyrians during the reign of Sargon II. In Europe, Asia, North Africa, the Mid-East, and North America, acorns were once a staple food. They are still a commercial food crop in several countries. Acorns are still harvested and used in several areas of the United States, most notably Southern Arizona and California. There …
Houses Of Straw, David A. Bainbridge
Houses Of Straw, David A. Bainbridge
David A Bainbridge
Straw bale building offers high performance at a low cost. Bale building, developed on the grasslands of Nebraska at turn of the last century, has been rediscovered. High insulation values and high interior thermal mass make straw bales a good choice for passive solar design.
Low Cost Seismic Test Platform, David A. Bainbridge
Low Cost Seismic Test Platform, David A. Bainbridge
David A Bainbridge
The challenge of seismic safety is better testing of building systems rather than just components. This mobile test platform may offer an inexpensive method of testing building performance.
Self Reliant Agriculture For Arid Lands, David A. Bainbridge
Self Reliant Agriculture For Arid Lands, David A. Bainbridge
David A Bainbridge
More than a billion people face the challenge of supporting themselves in the world's arid lands. Much can be improved by refining and adopting the best traditional practices and crops from around the world. The lessons learned can also help develop new and improved agronomic practices and crops.
Ecocomposite Materials, David A. Bainbridge
Ecocomposite Materials, David A. Bainbridge
David A Bainbridge
Ecocomposite materials combine fibers, resins and natural materials for added strength and durability. These materials can be fully and easily recycled by nature.
Ecocomposite Materials, David A. Bainbridge
Ecocomposite Materials, David A. Bainbridge
David A Bainbridge
If we are wise we can make a transition to the Age of Ecocomposites with virtually no pollution. Ecocomposite materials are those made with natural fibers and resins and can be produced in sustainable agro-industrial ecosystems. These materials can reused, recycled or returned to nature by grinding, composting, biological breakdown, or benign solvents. Historical use and recent rediscovery of these materials has suggested the many advantages (and challenges) using these materials offer to designers and engineers.
Revegetating Desert Plant Communities, David A. Bainbridge
Revegetating Desert Plant Communities, David A. Bainbridge
David A Bainbridge
Desert revegetation is possible but not easy. Careful attention to plant production (root:shoot), site prep, planting, irrigation and aftercare can lead to good survival even under extreme desert conditions. Cost per survivor is a critical consideration.
Soil Pitting For Revegetation, David A. Bainbridge
Soil Pitting For Revegetation, David A. Bainbridge
David A Bainbridge
Soil pitting provides many benefits in ecological restoration of degraded lands. The pits capture rainwater, trap seeds and soil symbionts and protect seedlings from windblast.
Breadbox Water Heater Designs, David A. Bainbridge
Breadbox Water Heater Designs, David A. Bainbridge
David A Bainbridge
Integral solar water heaters (batch, breadbox, ICS) provide the most economical and reliable means of heating water. Simple designs can perform well and provide service for decades. Basic design principles include box insulation, orientation and control of heat loss.