Two local guys are helping folks keep flowers and foliage green without sucking your water bill dry. This is taken from their site, www.rainbrothers.com and tells the story of how it all began…
Our story begins with two friends: Jonathan, a long-time community gardener living on the near eastside of Columbus who, after working with an amazing group of people at Old First Presbyterian Church in trying to grow bountiful community gardens to get fresh produce into the struggling neighborhood, discovered that water access was a major problem; and Zach (aka “Gordy”) whose passion for sustainable development meshed with the water access problem, giving birth to a rain barrel. So the two friends built rain barrels for the community gardens. And then they built rain barrels for other gardens. And, soon, people all across the great land of Columbus were requesting that rain barrels be built for them.
A business was born.
But wait, there is more. These guys are awesome. If you want to help the environment, save money AND have an enviable outdoors blooming with an abundance of greenery and eye-popping color, well these guys could be your “feel good” answer.
According to the RainBros, the average roof size for those of us in the United States is 989 sq. ft. On that size roof, with a 1” rainfall, a household can collect roughly 560 gallons of rainwater. Columbus, Ohio (where the Rain Brothers live) averages 37” of precipitation per year, which equates to over 20,000 gallons of water going down a resident’s downspouts every year! Wow.
In their words:
*We (all the partners of Rain Brothers) commit to live simple and sustainable lifestyles, and to ground our work in communities where poverty strikes most deeply, in hope that we can provide employment opportunities and a learning environment to help create meaningful employment.
*We pledge to invest profits in our community and in ideas/projects that further a “greening” and an inbreaking of justice within our locale.
*We commit to not let fear or a quest for profit control us, but to make every decision in faith, love, and a commitment to serve.
In other words, we are more than a business — we are prisoners of hope and believers of a vision. We are “the little business that could… and is!”
Come, build something with us.
Amen Brothers!
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