April 29, 2014
6:00 pmto9:00 pm
Date: Tuesday, April 29, 2014
Time: 6–9 pm
Venue: The Shed @ La Loma Development
Address: 1355 Lincoln Ave, Pasadena CA 91103
Requested contribution: $10 at the door
Brad will have his
books on hand for
sale & signing.
RSVP to
info@theshedpasadena.com
Melanie Winter (6:30 pm):
Water L.A.: Urban Acupuncture for Climate Resiliency
For the past two years, The River Project has been piloting
“Water LA” in the San Fernando Valley under a grant from the Coastal
Conservancy. Working in collaboration with dozens of residents, sister
non-profits, and half a dozen City agencies, they’ve developed consistent
guidance for homeowners on how to Capture, Conserve and Reuse water on
their own properties. From streamlining and reducing permit fees for
greywater systems, to bringing the Tucson-style parkway retrofit to Los
Angeles, the project aims to clear away numerous bureaucratic, financial,
and social obstacles preventing us from making the meaningful adaptations
that climate change requires.
Brad’s talk (7 pm):
Integrated Local Harvests:
Simple and Effective Ways to Enhance the Natural Abundance of
Your Home, Community, and the Larger World
This dynamic presentation shares patterns and strategies to harvest,
integrate, and enliven free local resourcessuch as rain-, grey-, and
stormwaters; sun, wind, and shade; along with soil fertility, wild foods,
and community funin a way that generates far more potential than the sum
of their parts. Scarcity is re-visioned into abundance simply through
creative cycling and utilization of what is already at hand. Costly and
consuming habits and infrastructure, disconnected from their
surroundings, are reoriented and reconnected to maximize enriching
opportunities.
You’ll see many examples of such transformation, including how once-dying
wetlands and creek flows are being regenerated with simple hand-built
structures made of on-site materials; how ancient sun- and
shade-harvesting sites are informing passively heated, cooled, and
powered modern homes and retrofits; and how once-blighted, overheated
neighborhood streets are being rejuvenated into thriving greenbelts of
water, people, wildlife, art, food, and celebration by planting
once-drained stormwater, seed, and yard prunings.
This talk is both an invitation for you to engage and partner with your
natural surroundings and community, and a treasure map showing you the
wayby planting the rain, dancing with the sun, growing fertile shade,
and more to live as one of your community’s inspirational
sparks!
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