Lecture & Booksigning with Brad Lancaster, Author of Rainwater
Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond:Vol 2, Water-Harvesting Earthworks-
followed by Two Day Workshop with Brad Lancaster & Art Ludwig

Schedule:
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
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Sept. 12, Fri  7:30-9 p.m.Lecture/Booksigning with Brad Lancaster
BC Forum, Fe Bland Auditorium, Free, no reservations required
Santa Barbara City College, West Campus 721 Cliff Drive. Santa Barbara
For more information and details on location and parking see
http://sustainability.sbcc.edu
Sponsored by the Santa Barbara City College Center for
Sustainability, Santa Barbara Permaculture Network and the SBCC Adult
Education Programs

Sept. 13, 14, Sat& Sun 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
Sustainable Design Workshop with Art Ludwig and Brad Lancaster
Free, No reservations required
Location: Room # 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 Santa Barbara City College Center for Sustainability,
Santa Barbara Permaculture Network and SBCC Adult Education Programs

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
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ABOUT NEWLY PUBLISHED BOOK :
Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond:Vol 2, Water-Harvesting
Earthworks, by Brad Lancaster

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.


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