[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
From: Wesley Roe and Marjorie Lakin Erickson <lakinroe@silcom.com>
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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
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 09:01:04 -0700
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.
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 Lancasters 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).
[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,
Wesley Roe and Marjorie Lakin Erickson, 10/04/2006