Last week we posted about a DIY gray water system in Los Angeles. This week, the SF Chronicle is looking at the same idea, plus new ways to go green DIY-style.
It looks like interest in DIY gray water systems is really growing. We've seen so many references to the Greywater Guerrillas over the last few days, we're sure they must be swamped with requests for help.
But what about other green DIY solutions. What about DIY solar panels, for instance? Sounds impossible, right? Well, apparently it wasn't impossible for Michael Davis, a Florida inventor, who built his own solar panel system for $105.
Get the whole story here.
image via Noah Berger / The Chronicle
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Comments (2)
I'd love to know more about graywater, and where one can take workshops in states that aren't California.
I live in Pittsburgh, PA and grow the majority of my own vegetables, and will (hopefully) soon be raising a backyard flock of chickens. Graywater would be a wonderful thing. I'm trying to figure out though:
1. how I would rig it up without violating codes (want to have the house still be in a saleable condition should we need to sell it)
2. what one needs to avoid in cleaning products when graywater systems are in place
Come to think of it, can graywater be stored somehow, or have an option of where it goes? If all the water from the washing machine, sinks, and shower were to go into the garden I'd waterlog all the plants, I'm fairly sure.