To Catch The Rain - a new rainwater catchment book - Kickstarter

There's a new Kickstarter that you might be interested in checking out. To Catch The Rain is a book of inspiring stories of communities coming together to catch their own rain, with the nitty-gritty details so you can do it as well.



It is a book for people looking to build a better future together.  

• Inspiring stories: Real life accounts of catching rain in communities.
• Technical details: Straightforward descriptions of rainwater system parts, replete with examples from existing systems (many from the systems described in the stories).
• Math and science: Easy-to-follow math that allows readers to simply size rainwater systems, including completed examples.



We need your help to bring this book to a reality. The writing of the book is done. Now we need money for design, layout, printing, distributing, and translating.  Which is why we are asking for your financial support to make it beautiful, more accessible, and less expensive!

The content has gone through multiple reviews, including academic peer reviews and edits by friends, students, colleagues, and kind professionals. It is ready for the world!... once we raise the money and finish these last important components.



About the Author



Lonny is an Instructor at Humboldt State University; the founder of the Practivistas summer abroad, full immersion, resilient community technology program; the Advisor and project manager for Swale, the floating food forest in New York; and the President of the Appropedia Foundation. Lonny has developed courses at universities in four countries and facilitated engagements around the world. He has worked, and led teams, on hundreds of domestic and international projects across a broad spectrum of sustainable design and entrepreneurship – from solar energy to improved cookstoves, from micro-hydro to rainwater catchment, from earthen construction to plastic bottle schoolrooms. Throughout all these technology projects, he has found the most vital component to be community.

If you are interested in contributing to this worthy endeavor, please check out our Kickstarter Campaign.

Your contributions are greatly appreciated!