Subject: South Coast Permaculture Guild Road Trip/Sun Feb 13, 2000
Center for Regenerative Studies CAL State Pomona
The road trip on Sunday Feb 13 to the Center for Regenerative Studies at Cal State Pomona, will meet in downtown Santa Barbara, at 7:30 am to carpool. Please meet at the parking lot behind the Pueblo Office Building at 128 E. Carrillo St, between Anacapa and Garden streets. Please bring lunch and something to share for potluck. We will try to carpool, but please come prepared with a full tank of gas, so we can leave promptly from the carpool meeting place.

Permaculture teacher, Dr. Bill Roley (did videos on site for Public Television and more) and Cal Poly Pomona students living on site will lead the tour. We will be arriving at site and beginning the tour at 10:30am.

Contact Wes Roe, South Coast Permaculture Guild
805-964-1555, to RSVP or for more information, or if needing directions to meet us at site.

Description of Center for Regenerative Studies below:

http://www.intranet.csupomona.edu/~crs/

California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

The John T. Lyle Center for Regenerative Studies (The Lyle Center) is an interdisciplinary university-based setting for education, demonstration and research in regenerative and sustainable systems. Students from all disciplines on campus can participate in courses and a community of up to 20 residents lives on the site working with regenerative systems as part of their daily lives.

The comprehensive design of the 16-acre site provides a living laboratory for faculty, students and visitors to study passive solar designed buildings, renewable energy capture, water recycling, nutrient cycling, food growing systems, aquaculture, native habitat and human communities. All of these have implications for human society.

Our web page is currently undergoing a comprehensive restructuring - we'll be bringing you more current information on our activities soon.

If you would like more information or to make a reservation for a visitor tour, please call us at 909-869-5155 or email us at crs@csupomona.edu.

>From Landscape Architecture Magazine, 1998:

"Future history books will probably name the Center for Regenerative
Studies at California State Polytechnic University in Pomona, CAL, as
John Lyle's most significant contribution to landscape architecture. The
Center-for which Lyle served as principal visionary, team leader and
conceptual designer, is a self-contained laboratory for sustainable or
"regenerative" technologies built on an abused edge of the university
and adjacent to a capped landfill that rises on the horizon like a great
brown bear. The Center was conceived to operate on renewable resources:
recycling waste into energy using technologies such as photovoltaics,
aquaculture, permaculture, and "living machine" wastewater treatment.
Building and landscape design were also key components of the Center,
taking advantage of passive solar heating and minimizing impact on the
landscape by capturing runoff onsite. But Lyle always envisioned the
facility to be much more than an assemblage of discrete experiments. Its
entire form would represent the integration found in natural systems.
The idea extended down to pedagogy and social environment: Students
would live and study on site, even working in the gardens to grow their
own food."