[permaculture] Bay Area Dates Jan 27-Feb 8 BOOK SIGNING TOUR& SLIDE SHOW TOUR Little House on a Small Planet with author Shay Salomon and Book Photographer Nigel Valdez
From: Wesley Roe and Marjorie Lakin Erickson <lakinroe@silcom.com>
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Subject: [permaculture] Bay Area Dates Jan 27-Feb 8 BOOK SIGNING TOUR& SLIDE SHOW TOUR Little House on a Small Planet with author Shay Salomon and Book Photographer Nigel Valdez
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 09:58:01 -0800
BOOK SIGNING TOUR& SLIDE SHOW TOUR Little House on a Small Planet
with author Shay Salomon and Book Photographer Nigel Valdez
Shay Salomon will be selling her book and giving a Slide Show/Talk .
Below is a list of locations for the tour below Bay area
Oakland/Berkeley/Santa Rosa/Sacramento
Sat Jan 27 - San Francisco 6-9pm Citizen Space coworking facility
425 Second St., #300 (near Harrison), San Francisco downtown/SOMA.
Potluck dinner plus Shay slideshow/talk/booksales.
Outreach to San Francisco Urban Alliance for Sustainability,
cohousing, communities
lists, SF Oil Awareness, Climate Change Project, daily Kos.
RSVP requested:http://intentionalcomm.meetup.com/1/ http://upcoming.org/event/141367/
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Sun Jan 28 - Berkeley 10:30 AM - 1:30 PM
Berkeley Cohousing common house, 2220-G Sacramento St. (between
Allston and Bancroft), Berkeley (94702), (510) 868-1627. Near North
Berkeley BART. Potluck
brunch plus Shay slideshow/talk/booksales. Outreach to East Bay
Permaculture Guild, cohousing, communities lists, Climate Change
Project, East Bay Oil Awareness, daily Kos.
RSVP REQUIRED: http://intentionalcomm.meetup.com/1/calendar/5408725
Jan 29 Mon 7:30 pm Santa Rosa New College 99 6th Street Santa Rosa.
Contact dbaker@newcollege.edu 707 568-2605
Feb 2, Fri , 2- 5 pm Sacramento, Byron Sher Auditorium
The Cal/EPA Building is located at the corner of 10th and I streets
in downtown Sacramento. The address is 1001 I street. No books will
be sold at this event.
Directions
<http://www.ciwmb.ca.gov/BoardInfo/Location/#CalEPA>www.ciwmb.ca.gov/BoardInfo/Location/#CalEPA
Parking:There are a few 10 hour meters on 11th street, but you'll
probably want to park across the street in the city garage. Parking
downtown is enforced with vigor so don't park for three hours in a
two-hour spot.
Feb 2 Fri 5pm Sacramento Meet the Author Booksigning/ Purchase of
Books after event
In Lobby of Mogavero, Notestine Associate 2012 K Street Sacramento CA 95841
Feb 7 Berkeley 1-2pm UC Berkeley campus (Wurster Hall).
Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning at UC
Berkeley Lecture Series Contact Georgia Silvera <gsilvera@berkeley.edu>
Feb 8, Thurs 7 - 8:30pm Builders Booksource 1817 Fourth Street (Near Hearst)
Berkeley, CA 94710 510-845-6874 service@buildersbooksource.com
Little House on a Small Planet
Slide Show & Booksigning Tour in California with
Shay Salomon and Photographer Nigel Valdez
Live in less space but have more room and enjoy
it. Does that sound like a contradiction? Smart readers will
discover that on the contrary, living small can free up your mind,
your wallet, and your soul. With the cost of living rising, the
environment suffering from excessive building, now is time to scale
back. Join the small house movement.
In Shay Salomon's newly published book, with a foreward by
Francis Moore Lappe, Little House on a Small Planet (
www.littlehouseonasmallplanet.com) is a guidebook and an invitation,
with floor plans, photographs, advice, and anecdotes. Discover how to
build, remodel, redecorate, or just rethink your needs. Live close
and simple and apply spiritual and social needs to your material
desires. Pockets of people all over the continent are realizing the
benefits of scaling down. You too can build a joyful, sane life that
emphasizes home life over home maintenance.
Little House is split into three sections; building small
houses, altering existing
houses, and the politics of housing and lifestyle choices. The book
is informative and hopeful, even empowering. Salomon takes a
refreshing approach, instead of focusing intently on the problem of
current housing trends, she provides the data needed to understand
them, then spends her energy on drawing out solutions that each one
of us can choose to follow through on.
In fact, the politics of housing is a theme threaded
throughout the entire book.
Reading news coverage after Hurricane Katrina, Salomon learned that
in Houston, where many of the refugees were headed, 14% of all
housing units (homes, apartments, duplexes, etc) were vacant. Salomon
did some research on how this compares to the rest of the country.
She found that in the year 2000 there were 10.4 million vacant units
and 250,000 people sleeping in homeless shelters. This meant there
were nearly 45 homes that were completely empty per person sleeping
in shelters. Salomon asks, "How is it that we have a housing crisis?
Maybe a homing crisis, or a sharing crisis, but this isn't a housing crisis. "
Shay Salomon is a carpenter and construction manager who
coaches owner-builders towards a mortgage-free life. She has taught
at least a hundred courses in carpentry, straw bale building, solar
design, and women s building courses. A cofounder with Greg Johnson,
Jay Shafer, and Nigel Valdez of the Small House Society (
www.smallhousesociety.org), she wrote Little House on the Small
Planet , which chronicles the small house movement and offers advice
to people who want to improve their life by living in far less space.
The photographer for Little House, Nigel Valdez, chose pictures of
real people on average days in their little houses. Nothing appears
staged. People are relaxing with their kids, their feet up on the
coffee table, or shaving in the bathtub, which happens to be in the
kitchen. Shay Salomon and Nigel Valdez have worked on this project
for 7 years.
The Santa Barbara Permaculture Network sponsors the
event. For more information please call (805) 962-2571, or email
margie@sbpermaculture.org, www.sbpermaculture.org.
Quotes about Housing from the book:
The Union of Concerned Scientists ranks housing third among
destructive human enterprises, just after transportation and
agriculture. But our housing need not be destructive. Again we can
chose ! We can chose human scale, enhancing our connections with
those we love. We can chose eco-scale, reducing our demand for the
kind of energy that is disrupting life now and for future generations.
Construction has some alarming effects on the environment. Forty
percent of all the raw materials humans consume, we use in
construction. Building an average house adds seven tons of waste to
the landfill! New house construction is arguably the single greatest
threat to endangered species, even in areas where human population is
on the decline, animals and plants are threatened each day, due to
the construction of new houses. Might our houses feel more
comfortable if they weren't so destructive.
Throughout North America building has been influenced by "green
thinking", and houses have improved, but despite major advances in
insulation and design, the typical house built today requires as much
energy to heat and cool as one built in 1960. Why? Because it's
bigger. House size and location are the greatest determinants of a
home's effect on the environment. The challenge is to build a single
family housing as efficient as a New York City apartment, which, on
average uses a fraction of the energy of a typical detached house.
Tour organizers
For Updates on Tour contact Santa Barbara Permaculture Network
margie@sbpermaculture.org www.sbpermaculture.org 805-962-257 also
check Shay Salomon Website www.littlehouseonasmallplanet.com Go to
either Website for tour dates in other communities Jan 17 / Feb 8
2007 San Diego to Arcata
[permaculture] Bay Area Dates Jan 27-Feb 8 BOOK SIGNING TOUR& SLIDE SHOW TOUR Little House on a Small Planet with author Shay Salomon and Book Photographer Nigel Valdez,
Wesley Roe and Marjorie Lakin Erickson, 01/27/2007