_SBPermaculture Network ,Sustainability Project,Cohearts,
Creating a Natural Building
Network for Your Region

Workshop with Gary Duncan of Smart Shelter Network
Saturday November 11, 1-6 p.m.  $60, contact/registration SBPN 805 962 2571  
CEC Gildea Resource Center, 930 Miramonte Dr
(Preview Lecture  & Slide Show, Nov 9, 7pm, Faulkner Gallery, SB Public Library)

In South Western Colorado there exists a unique organization called Smart Shelter Network.  It studies & documents Natural, Sustainable & Green Building structures.  It provides consulting & resource information for people wanting to build environmentally  responsible buildings.  It offers advocacy & education to builders, inspectors, politicians, insurers & banks about Natural Building. It's members form task forces to study specific issues.  Smart Shelter Network exists to document, analyze, promote and educate its citizens about Natural Building in their area. Learn how a similar network can be formed in our region. 
www.smartshelter.com
 Workshop will cover:
‚       Overview of a Natural Building Network
‚       Functions of a Network
‚       Forming a Natural Building Network for Coastal Southern California
‚       Slide Show of Natural Building techniques with the builder/architect in mind
Gary Duncan has been in the building trade 35 years forming SmartShelter Network after experiencing an illness from toxic building materials and observing the unsustainability of his profession. He has catalogued natural buildings over the past 6 years with more than 3000 slides and several hundred documented case studies.

GARY DUNCAN FROM SMARTSHELTER NETWORK
SLIDE SHOW AND TALK ON THE CENTRAL COAST

Nov 8: Wed Ojai...7pm Happy Valley School Auditorium, contact Dave White,
Ojai Permaculture Guild, 805-646-9809 artdetour@mac.com.
Nov 9: Thursday Santa Barbara.. 7:00pm at the Santa Barbara Public
Library Main Branch Downtown, Faulkner Gallery, donation $3, Santa Barbara Permaculture Network and other cosponsors  contact 962-2571
or sbpcnet@silcom.com.
Nov. 10: Friday San Luis Obispo... 7pm at the Community Room at the SLO Library
co-sponsored by HopeDance (544-9663), Sustainable Building Council, CC Permaculture Guild
and the Canaries of the Central Coast, Future Electric


Talk and slideshow will cover
strawbale building, passive solar design, adobe, cob, pressed earth,
earthships, environmental illness, electromagnetic fields, Feng Shui, water
catchment, biological waste water treatment, remodeling, solar electric,
solar hot water, pressed block, permaculture, green houses, green building,
finance, insurance, Russian Stoves, timber frame, green power....and more.
Plus a special look at Environmental Illness for those affected by
sensitivities or allergies caused by buildings, toxic indoor air quality
problems, cleaning products, furnishings, perfumes, etc. Go to
www.smartshelter.com for details.

Nov. 11 Setting Up a Natural Building Network in California with Gary Duncan
At the CEC Gildea Resource Center 930 Miramonte Dr Santa Barbara.
A half day workshop from 1-6pm Cost $60
this a half day workshop that links builders, architects, building activists,
lenders, real estate & insurance agents, county building officials,
individual natural home owners to exchange info on natural & green building
methods. The workshop takes as a model the Smartshelter Network in Colorado
and is tailored to our local region. The network provides advocacy in order
to compete with the non-renewable toxic and environmentally destructive aspects of conventional
building.
Cost/$60 For more info & registration call SBPN 805/962-2571, email:
sbpcnet@silcom.com..