This Week on Sustainable World Radio:

Join Jill Cloutier of Sustainable World Radio, on Friday, Feb 15, for an interview with Richard Register, author of EcoCities:Rebuilding Cities in Balance with Nature, and convener of the 7th Ecocity World Summit in San Francisco, CA, April 2008. ( www.ecocityworldsummit.org). Also, Margie Bushman of Santa Barbara Permaculture Network talks about upcoming SBPN Eco-Cities ECO-Film Night promoting the Ecocity Summit.

Sustainable World Radio: Friday mornings at 9-10am 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 in the week.

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Upcoming Event:

                                                              (illustration from EcoCities:Rebuilding Cities in Balance with Nature by Richard Register)

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 lives 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.


Additional Info:
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 urban design. The conference has previously been held in Australia, Africa, Asia and South America.

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