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  • Subject: [permaculture] BOOK SIGNING TOUR& SLIDE SHOW Brad Lancaster author Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands, Volume 1 Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain Into Your Life Northern CA and Las Vegas NV Oct 17-25 2006
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Brad Lancaster Tour Northern CA and Las Vegas NV Oct 17-25

BOOK SIGNING TOUR& SLIDE SHOW Brad Lancaster author Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands, Volume 1 Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain Into Your Life www.harvestingrainwater.com/
Turn Water Scarcity into Water Abundance! Welcome Rain Into Your Life and Landscape. Join Brad Lancaster as he explains tools & techniques for implementing sustainable water systems for your home, landscape, and community, using onsite resources. Brad is a teacher, designer, and consultant on the sustainable design system of permaculture & integrated rainwater harvesting systems since 1993.

Brad will also be on hand to sell and sign copies of his new book Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands, Volume 1 – Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain Into Your Life and Landscape (except Ecology Center Berkeley will sell the books)

Tour organizers in California Santa Barbara Permaculture Network www.sbpermaculture.org 805-962-2571
Visit Brad's Website for updates Book Signing Locations during the year www.harvestingrainwater.com/ and Resources for Rainwater Harvesting

Brad Lancaster Tour Northern CA and Las Vegas NV Oct 17-24

Oct 17 Tues 7-9pm Ecology Center • 2530 San Pablo Avenue, Berkeley, California 94702 :
Contacts 510.548.2220 info@ecologycenter.org www.ecologycenter.org and Katherine Steele <kat@steelemoon.com>

Oct 18 Wed Wednesday, October 18th, 7:00-8:30 pm.Occidental Center for the Arts Ecology , 15290 Coleman Valley Road, (Graton Road & Bohemian Highway),Occidental CA
Contact Brock Dolman at (707) 874-1557 x206, brock@oaec.org, www.oaec.org Donation $3-$5

Oct 19 Thurs 7pm Willits Community Center , Willits CA , Donation $10
Contact Maximillan Myers <permimax@gmail.com>, www.melc.us, 707-456-0779

Oct 22 Sun 3pm Community Room of Nevada County Library Helling Branch, Nevada City
Contact Barbara Roemer 530 265-6784, Barbara Roemer & Glenn Miller <roemiller@infostations.net>

Oct 23 Mon 7:30 pm Davis Branch of the Yolo County Library, Blanchard Community Room, Donation $3-$5
Contact Wendy Smyer Yu 530-297-1186, davispug@hotmail.com www.dpug.blogspot.com

Oct 24 Tues Evening 6:30pm - 8pm Las Vegas Gardens at the Springs Preserve, 3701 W. Alta Drive Las Vegas, NV 89153
Contact Jennifer.Jacobi@lvspringspreserve.org 702-822-8461 www.lvspringspreserve.org

Oct 25 Wed 11:30 am Las Vegas Gardens at the Springs Preserve, 3701 W. Alta Drive Las Vegas, NV 89153
Contact Jennifer.Jacobi@lvspringspreserve.org 702-822-8461 www.lvspringspreserve.org


Tour Organizer Santa Barbara Permaculture Network margie@sbpermaculture.org 805-962-2571 www.sbpermaculture.org

Cosponsored by Mendocino Ecological Learning Center, The Water Institute at Occidental Center for the Arts Ecology,Urban Permaculture Guild, Ecology Center Berkeley, Las Vegas Springs Preserve, Davis Permaculture, The CA Native Plant Society Nevada City, SYRCL (South Yuba River Citizen's League), New College of California North Bay (Santa Rosa)


Turning Water Scarcity into Water Abundance with Water Harvesting: Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain Into Your Life and Landscape

This is the inspiring story of how a poor dryland farmer and his family turned a wasteland into an oasis in the driest region of Zimbabwe by teaching themselves how to harvest the rain – and you can do the same where you live! Eight guiding principles of integrated water harvesting are demonstrated that can be replicated anywhere to help turn water scarcity into water abundance.

This story and its principles are presented in the context of how my community of Tucson, Arizona, like many across the globe, has taken the wasteful path of scarcity by rapidly depleting its water resources by dehydrating the landscapes of its watersheds. Yet, we can choose the stewardship path to abundance by rehydrating our landscapes through simple water harvesting. Mr. Zephaniah Phiri Maseko and his family – the Zimbabwean water harvesters – are our example and the principles are our guides.

Brad will also be on hand to sell and sign copies of his new book Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands, Volume 1 – Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain Into Your Life and Landscape.

Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands by Brad Lancaster
Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain Into Your Life and Landscape Volume 1
www.harvestingrainwater.com/
Now Available!
Turn water scarcity into water abundance! Rainwater Harvesting for
Drylands, Volume 1 is the core of the complete three-volume guide on how to
conceptualize, design, and implement sustainable water-harvesting systems
for your home, landscape, and community. This book enables you to access
your on-site resources (rainwater, greywater, topsoil, sun, plants, and
more), gives you a diverse array of strategies to maximize their potential,
and empowers you with guiding principles to create an integrated,
multi-functional, and water-sustainable water-harvesting landscape plan
specific to your site and needs.
Clearly written with more than 40 photos and 115 illustrations, this volume
helps bring your site to life, reduce your cost of living, endow yourself
and your community with skills of self-reliance and cooperation, and create
living air conditioners of vegetation growing beauty, food, and wildlife
habitat. Stories of people who are successfully welcoming rain into their
life and landscape will invite you to do the same!
Learn more about the book and see sample chapters.
Water harvesting and water cycling.
© 2005 Brad Lancaster and Joe Marshall

By using simple and inexpensive techniques the Lancaster household now harvests over 100,000 gallons of rainwater in an average year of rain (mostly in the soil and vegetation), while using less than 20,000 gallons of municipal water. Due to the low water use, Tucson Water has visited a number of times thinking the water meter was broken. All utility bills have dropped due to a landscape design incorporating passive winter heating and summer cooling to the point that the combined bills of gas, water, and electric do not exceed $35 per month. Turning scarcity into abundance then extends into the neighborhood with neighborhood-wide native, food-producing tree plantings and water-harvesting traffic calming strategies that double as flood control measures that beautify the neighborhood. It will all get you dancing when it rains and lessen the negative effects of drought!

Brad Lancaster’s bio
Brad Lancaster is the author of “Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands, Volume 1 Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain Into Your Life and Landscape” (www.HarvestingRainwater.com). In addition, he has been teaching the sustainable design system of permaculture and integrated rainwater harvesting systems, and running his own permaculture design, consultation, and education business since 1993. He has taught programs for the ECOSA Institute, Columbia University, University of Arizona, Prescott College, Audubon Expeditions, Berea College, Sonoran Permaculture Teaching Guild, Permaculture Drylands Institute, the Amphitheater School District, and others. He has designed water harvesting permaculture systems for Milagro Co-housing, Stone Curves Co-housing, Rio Development, Civano, and others. Brad and his brother have created, and live on, a thriving 1/8th of an acre urban permaculture site in downtown, Tucson Arizona. Within his neighborhood and beyond, Brad feeds his passion for community building and activism, resulting in the creation of the Dunbar/Spring Organic Community Garden, mini-nature park, BICAS (Bicycle Inter-Community Arts and Salvage), annual neighborhood native tree plantings, and the desert harvesters project (www.DesertHarvesters.org).








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