Santa Barbara Sept 12,13,14 Lecture& Workshop with  Brad Lancaster author Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond:Vol 2, Water-Harvesting Earthworks and Art Ludwig

Sept. 12, Fri 1pm Seminar room 4016 Floor 4E, Bren Hall University of California Santa Barbara Free
 Contact Jami Nielsen(805)893-2968, nielsen@es.ucsb.edu
http://www.tps.ucsb.edu/mapFlash.aspx#campus_map,


 Sept. 12, Fri  7:30-9 p.m.Lecture/Booksigning with Brad Lancaster   BC Forum Fe  Bland Auditorium SBCC west campus 721 Cliff Drive. Santa Barbara
For more information and details on location and parking see
http://sustainability.sbcc.edu
Cosponsors by The  Santa Barbara City College Center for Sustainability
Santa Barbara Permaculture Network and Santa  Barbara Adult Education Program

Sept. 13, 14, Sat& Sun 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Sustainable Design Workshop with Art Ludwig and Brad Lancaster
Location EBS 309 SBCC East Campus 721 Cliff Drive. Santa Barbara
        Spend two days with expert sustainable water systems designers, Art
Ludwig and Brad Lancaster, as they work through practical and locally
appropriate designs for Santa Barbara residents. We live in a drought and
flood prone area. Learn how to manage water, nutrients, and energy more
sustainably using simple design strategies. For more information and
details on location and parking see http://sustainability.sbcc.edu
Cosponsors by The  Santa Barbara City College Center for Sustainability
Santa Barbara Permaculture Network and Santa  Barbara Adult Education Program

More Details and parking  Santa Barbara Center for Sustainability http://sustainability.sbcc.edu
Brad Lancasters website www.harvestingrainwater.com/
Also posted on Santa Barbara Permaculture Network Upcoming  Events   www.sbpermaculture.org

Interview with Brad Lancaster on Aug 22 on Sustainable world Radio has been posted on
http://socalifornia.permacultureconvergence.org/content/view/205/160

ABOUT HIS NEWLY PUBLISHED BOOK
Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond:Vol 2, Water-Harvesting Earthworks,
 
=Get out your shovels and dance in the rain! That is what Brad Lancaster’s second volume in his trilogy on Rainwater Harvesting will make you want to do.

Join Brad Lancaster , as he shares his experiences traveling the world learning about harvesting rainwater---with simple landforms and earthworks---in places like India, Peru, Mexico, Africa and the  United States, where impoverished landscapes are turned into oases of life. 

Harvesting rainwater was once a worldwide technology, but was replaced by pipes, canals, and sprinklers---inefficient and wasteful strategies that are running dry. In his newly published book Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond:Vol 2, Water-Harvesting Earthworks, Brad Lancaster shares techniques for designing landscapes that passively harvest water using brilliant, low-tech, regenerative systems to hydrate the land and maximize the benefit that water brings to plants, animals and people.

Water has been identified as a global crisis in the making. Southern California has one of the most piped landscapes ever designed, relying on water from far away that may not be available in the future.  Brad's book encourages individuals and government agencies to redesign landscapes to live sustainably in their watersheds.  Earthworks, using
shovels to large earth moving equipment, can be the foundation strategy for sustainable landscapes.

        Brad Lancaster is a permaculture teacher, designer, consultant and co-founder of Desert Harvesters (DesertHarvesters.org). Living on an eighth of an acre in downtown Tucson, Arizona, where rainfall is lessthan 12 inches annually, Brad practices what he preaches by harvesting over 100,000 gallons of rainwater a year. Brad has taught programs for the ECOSA Institute, Columbia University, University of Arizona, Prescott College, Audubon Expeditions, and many others. He has helped design integrated water harvesting and permaculture systems for homeowners and gardeners, including the Tucson Audubon Simpson Farm restoration site, the Milagro and Stone Curves co-housing projects.