Earthships next South Coast Permaculture Meeting Wed. April 26

[Wesley Roe and Marjorie Lakin Erickson]

Wednesday April 26 at 7:00 PM at South Coast Permaculture Guild Monthly
Meeting 
Slideshow/lecture Earthships with Christopher Danch of Sunbow Ecology Center
Community Environmental Council 930 Miramonte Dr.Santa Barbara
Light Refreshments and Food and Conversation at 6:30 PM regular monthly
meeting
SCPG 962-2571 or sbpcnet at silcom.com
An Earthship is fully-integrated sustainable off-the-grid housing design that
incorporates recycled and indigenous 
building materials, thermal mass for temperature regulation, high insulation,
passive ventilation system, rain water catchment and storage system, passive
solar heating (both building and water), PV solar with 
"designed down" electrical system, and constructed wetland systems for
treatment of grey and black water. The design allows for some year-round food
production both inside and outside the structure.

Sunbow Ecology Center is coordinating organization for a broad-based 
coalition of organizations, groups and individuals working to gain building 
code acceptance for Earthships components, starting with the rammed earth 
tire wall construction method. We will be conducting ICBO-approved testing 
and working with building officials around the state to allow people to 
freely permit the construction of earthships. We will also work to ease the 
permitting of the grey and black water treatment systems. 
Sunbow Ecology Center is a nonprofit dedicated to fostering community 
responsibility and promoting ecological restoration through hands-on 
educational service project and wilderness learning expeditions. Our 
mission is to enable people to take an active role in restoring 
environmental and social health--personally, locally and globally.
Check out the Sunbow Ecology Center 
Sunbow Ecology Center 
P.O. Box 509 
Ojai, CA 93024-0509 
Tele: (805) 640-1037 
Fax: (805) 640-8820 
email: cdanch at sunbow.org 
URL: www.sunbow.org 


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