Santa Barbara Permaculture
Network
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,
margie@sbpermaculture.org.
Santa Barbara Permaculture Network
(805) 962-2571
P.O. Box 92156, Santa Barbara, CA 93190
margie@sbpermaculture.org
www.sbpermaculture.org
"We are like trees,
we must create new leaves, in new directions, in order to grow." -
Anonymous