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  • From: Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network <lakinroe@silcom.com>
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  • Subject: [permaculture] *Friday, FEB 15 Sustainable World Radio Interview with Richard Register / 7th Ecocity World Summit
  • Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:28:14 -0800

This week on Sustainable World Radio

Join Jill Cloutier of Sustainable World Radio on Friday, Feb 15, from 9-10am for an interview with with Richard Register convenor of 7th Ecocity World Summit , San Francisco www.ecocityworldsummit.org/. and also with Margie Bushman of Santa Barbara Permaculture Network

Sustainable World Radio: Friday mornings at 9:00 am PST on KCSB 91.9 FM in Santa Barbara, California and streaming live on www.kcsb.org Also found on www.sustainableworldradio.com, or www.radio4all.net later next the week.

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Also Upcoming Event:
Santa Barbara Permaculture Network ECO-Film Night on Thur Feb 21, 7pm:

ECO-Film Night/ Eco-Cities: Ecological & Sustainable City Design Thursday, Feb 21, 7 pm, to help promote the Ecocity World summit
3 Films A Convenient Truth, Urban Solutions from Curitiba Brazil, City Repair Portland, and Ecocity, ECOCITY World Summit, 7th International Ecocity Conference Preview , more details at end of Email

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Richard Register

Richard Register www.ecocitybuilders.org is one of the world's great theorists and authors in ecological city design and planning. He is also a practitioner with three decades of experience activating local projects, pushing establishment buttons and working with environmentalists and developers to get a better city built and running. He was founding president of Urban Ecology (1975) and founder and current president of Ecocity Builders (1992)in Berkeley CA
He has traveled the equivalent of 22 times around the Earth (as of Summer 2003) speaking on behalf of the pedestrian city to save the world--by avoiding cars, global warming, massive sprawl, natural habitat displacement, air and water pollution and other harms. More important, he believes, is the kind of city that can contribute to humanity's creative and compassionate evolution on a healthy Earth, in an exciting and rewarding built community from village to town and city scale. We can build it, he believes, and thinks he knows how.
Register is the author of ECOCITIES: BUILDING CITIES IN BALANCE WITH NATURE, (2002), editor of VILLAGE WISDOM / FUTURE CITIES (1997), author of ECOCITY BERKELEY: BUILDING CITIES FOR A HEALTHY FUTURE (1987) and ANOTHER BEGINNING (1978).



April 22-26, 2008 in San Francisco, California, the Ecocity World Summit (7th International Ecocity Conference)

Throughout Earth Day Week, April 22-26, 2008 in San Francisco, California, the Ecocity World Summit (7th International Ecocity Conference) www.ecocityworldsummit.org/ will be convening an international community of inspired change-makers; courageous individuals who are addressing problems of the world's environment with thoughtful long-range solutions that are truly sustainable, ecologically healthy and socially just.

The International Ecocity World Summit 2008 will focus on key actions that cities and citizens can take to rebuild our habitats (cities) to be in balance with living systems and in the process slow down and even reverse global warming and the effects thereof. Delegates from around the world will gather to discuss best practices for sustainable city planning and urbandesign. The conference has previously been held in Australia, Africa, Asia and South America.

The time to act is now. Life-threatening global environmental problems and limitations on resource consumption demand a restructuring of cities and transportation systems worldwide for long-term energy efficiency and conservation. Concerned citizens in every community - in every city, town and village - must get involved in formulating and implementing new land use and transportation policies and practices, preserving agricultural lands and open space, and reclaiming natural habitat.

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TO PROMOTE 7TH ECOCITY WORLD SUMMIT IN SAN FRANSCICO IN APRIL 2008
*ECO-Film Night/ Eco-Cities: Ecological & Sustainable City Design Thursday, Feb 21, 7 pm

ECO-Film Night
Eco-Cities: Ecological & Sustainable City Design

Thursday, Feb 21, 7 pm, 2008, Donation, $5
Santa Barbara Public Library, Faulkner Gallery


Most of the world's population now live in cities. Will these rapidly growing centers of human life be sustainably designed cities, or out of control slums?

Join Santa Barbara Permaculture Network as we explore the future of cities, with three films that suggest the possibility of cities that are not only sustainable, but a joy and inspiration to live in.

"As we build so shall we live" states Richard Register, author of Ecocities; Rebuilding Cities in Balance with Nature, and key organizer for the upcoming 7th International Ecocity Conference, to be held in San Francisco April 2008. The SB Permaculture ECO-Film night will begin with a short film promoting the upcoming EcoCity World Summit ( www.ecocitysummit.org), highlighting past and future keynote speakers and their visions on how to build and rebuild cities and towns based on ecological design.

Modern cities have been designed for cars, and have the potential of grinding to a halt without oil as a cheap resource. Life threatening global environmental problems mandate rethinking now the way we design our cities in balance with living systems.



Films to be shown:
ECOCITY World Summit, 7th International Ecocity Conference Preview: Short film promoting upcoming Ecocity Conference in San Francisco, CA, with speakers from past and future conferences, including 2008 keynote speaker, Jaime Lerner, former mayor of Curitiba, Brazil.

A Convenient Truth, Urban Solutions from Curitiba Brazil: A documentary sharing ideas to provoke environmental-friendly and cost-effective changes in cities worldwide, focusing on transportation, recycling, water harvesting, ecological urban parks, and social strategies for affordable housing, that transformed Curitiba into one of the most livable cities in the world. Learn the story of Mayor Jaime Lerner as he instigated a city and its planners to move forward to innovative sustainable city design more than 30 years ago.

City Repair: Visionary architect Mark Lakeman discusses the movement that inspired and guides the grid structure of a typical American city into a vital social commons with Portland's City Repair Project ( www.cityrepair.org ).
The event takes place at the downtown Santa Barbara Public Library, 40 E. Anapamu St, Santa Barbara, CA, on Thursday, February, 21 at 7pm for a donation of $5. No reservations required, contact 805-962-2571, or www.sbpermaculture.org, <mailto:margie@sbpermaculture.org>margie@sbpermaculture.org.









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