[Ccpg] REMINDER: Eco Design Course - Part 4: Natural Materials and Construction this Saturday 10 am to 4 pm

[bob banner]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Leif Skogberg <leifskogberg at gmail.com>
> Date: June 24, 2009 2:26:49 PM PDT
> Subject: [transition-sb] REMINDER: Eco Design Course - Part 4:  
> Natural Materials and  Construction this Saturday 10 am to 4 pm
> Reply-To: transition-sb at googlegroups.com
>
>
> FRIENDLY REMINDER...
>
>
> Spring 2009
> Hand-on Ecological Design Course in Downtown Santa Barbara
>
> with Leif H. Skogberg and local guest speakers
> Donations Only  (suggested donation is $25, but not required)
>
> Please bring a lunch for yourself, and/or a potluck dish to share,  
> if possible.
>
>
> Part 4 - Natural Material & Construction
>
> Saturday June 27
> 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
> 1611 Olive Street
>
> Discover your innate building skills working with natural material  
> and age-old technologies, used in modern applications. Learn how to  
> create healthy indoor environments using all natural non-toxic  
> material like wood, clay, sand and straw. This course will focus on  
> simple techniques for using natural material like cob, straw bale  
> and light-clay straw to retrofit existing structures to be more  
> energy efficient, have improved indoor air quality and enhanced  
> aesthetics.  Please be prepared to get muddy!  :)
>
>
> Please RSVP.  Thank you!
>
>
> For more information or registration, email: LeifSkogberg at gmail.com,  
> or call (805) 886-6251
>
>
>
> Instructor Bio:
>
> Leif H. Skogberg
>
> Ecological educator & designer, Leif H. Skogberg has been practicing  
> organic gardening, composting, natural building, permaculture and  
> ecological design for nearly a decade. Certified in Permaculture  
> Design, Green Gardening & Sustainable Landscape Operations, Leif has  
> degrees in Environmental Horticulture Science and Liberal Arts from  
> Santa Barbara City College.
>
> As a student, Leif Co-founded & Chaired the SBCC Student  
> Sustainability Coalition, during which time he led several  
> successful student led efforts to promote and institutionalize  
> sustainability at SBCC, including; a campus sustainability  
> assessments; a campus ecological footprint analysis; an eight week  
> Adult Education lecture series entitled "Creating a Sustainable  
> Future: Ecology, Ethics & Design"; green purchasing practices;  
> expanded campus recycling programs; and more.  Leif also assisted  
> with the creation of the class "Projects in Sustainability" as well  
> as the SBCC Center for Sustainability.
>
> During this time as a student and activist, he led several dozen  
> natural building workshops during the process of design building a  
> small “mud meditation hut” out of all natural and recycled material  
> near downtown Santa Barbara.  Leif has consulted on several natural  
> building projects in Santa Barbara and California, as well as one in  
> New Mexico. Leif currently works full-time for the City of Santa  
> Barbara as a Recycling Educator while providing independent  
> environmental design consulting services on the side.
>
>
>
>
> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~
> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google
> Groups "TRANSITION-SB" group.
> To post to this group, send email to transition-sb at googlegroups.com
> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to
> transition-sb+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com
> For more options, visit this group at
> http://groups.google.com/group/transition-sb?hl=en?hl=en
> Also for more information visit our website at:
> http://www.transitiontownsb.org
> -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
>

__________________
Bob Banner
Publisher & Director

HopeDance
Celebrating Transition, Opportunity and Resilience  •  2500 Oakview  
Rd.  •  Templeton, CA 93465  •   805.434.3950
http://www.hopedance.org/cms
HopeDance at Transition CA: http://transitioncalifornia.ning.com/group/hopedance
Follow us at twitter: http://twitter.com/hopedance

edible SLO: Celebrating Local Food, Farmers and Healthy Food in SLO  
County
2500 Oakview Rd.  •  Templeton, CA 93465  •   805.434.3950
http://www.ediblesanluisobispo.com
http://transitioncalifornia.ning.com/group/ediblesanluisobispo
Follow us on TWITTER: http://twitter.com/edibleslo

FiLMs, PRiNT & Web: info at hopedance.org / http://www.hopedance.org /  
805.369-0203
TRANSITION:
Transition Initiative PORTAL: http://www.hopedance.org/cms/content/view/535/1
Transition CA: http://transitioncalifornia.ning.com/

Disclaimer:
The information we send out originates from reliable sources which we  
believe to be accurate; but this cannot be guaranteed. We are not  
responsible for any errors or omissions and we disclaim any liability  
incurred as a consequence of any of the content.

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://www.permaculture-guilds.org/pipermail/central-coast-ca-permaculture/attachments/20090624/03adefa8/attachment.html>