permaculture

[Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network <lakinroe@silcom.com>]

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.