[Lapg] BOOK SIGNING TOUR& SLIDE Little House on a Small Planet with Shay Salomon Jan 17 / Feb 8 2007 San Diego to Arcata CA

[Wesley Roe and Marjorie Lakin Erickson]

BOOK SIGNING  TOUR& SLIDE SHOW TOUR Little House 
on a Small Planet with author Shay Salomon and 
Book Photographer Nigel Valdez  Jan 17 / Feb 8 
2007 San Diego to Arcata CA .Tour

Shay Salomon  will be selling her book and giving 
a Slide Show/Talk . Below is a list of locations for the tour below .
Hear Shay interviewed Fri Jan 10, 9-10am & Mon 
Jan13 9-10am  Radio Interview Sustainable world 
Radio www.kcsb.org 91.9 FM Santa Barbara


SANTA BARBARA PERMACULTURE NETWORK
Presents:

Little House on a Small Planet

Slide Show & Booksigning Tour in California with
Shay Salomon and Photographer Nigel Valdez

         Live in less space but have more room 
and enjoy it.  Does that sound like a 
contradiction? Smart readers will discover that 
on the contrary, living small can free up your 
mind, your wallet, and your soul.  With the cost 
of living rising, the environment suffering from 
excessive building, now is time to scale back.  Join the small house movement.

         In Shay Salomon's newly published book, 
with a foreward by Francis Moore Lappe, Little 
House on a Small Planet ( 
www.littlehouseonasmallplanet.com) is a guidebook 
and an invitation, with floor plans, photographs, 
advice, and anecdotes. Discover how to build, 
remodel, redecorate, or just rethink your 
needs.  Live close and simple and apply spiritual 
and social needs to your material desires. 
Pockets of people all over the continent are 
realizing the benefits of scaling down. You too 
can build a joyful, sane life that emphasizes home life over home maintenance.

         Little House is split into three 
sections; building small houses, altering existing
houses, and the politics of housing and lifestyle 
choices. The book is informative and hopeful, 
even empowering.  Salomon takes a refreshing 
approach, instead of focusing intently on the 
problem of current housing trends, she provides 
the data needed to understand them, then spends 
her energy on drawing out solutions that each one 
of us can choose to follow  through on.

         In fact, the politics of housing is a 
theme threaded throughout the entire book.
Reading news coverage after Hurricane Katrina, 
Salomon learned that in Houston, where many of 
the refugees were headed, 14% of all housing 
units (homes, apartments, duplexes, etc) were 
vacant. Salomon did some research on how this 
compares to the rest of the country. She found 
that in the year 2000 there were 10.4 million 
vacant units and 250,000 people sleeping in 
homeless shelters. This meant there were nearly 
45 homes that were completely empty per person 
sleeping in shelters. Salomon asks, "How is it 
that we have a housing crisis? Maybe a homing 
crisis, or a sharing crisis, but this isn't a housing crisis. "

         Shay Salomon is a carpenter and 
construction manager who coaches owner-builders 
towards a mortgage-free life.  She has taught at 
least a hundred courses in carpentry, straw bale 
building, solar design, and women’s building 
courses.  A cofounder with Greg Johnson, Jay 
Shafer, and Nigel Valdez of the Small House 
Society ( www.smallhousesociety.org), she wrote 
Little House on the Small Planet , which 
chronicles the small house movement and offers 
advice to people who want to improve their life 
by living in far less space. The photographer for 
Little House, Nigel Valdez, chose pictures of 
real people on average days in their little 
houses. Nothing appears staged. People are 
relaxing with their kids, their feet up on the 
coffee table, or shaving in the bathtub, which 
happens to be in the kitchen. Shay Salomon and 
Nigel  Valdez have worked on this project for 7 years.

         The Santa Barbara Permaculture Network 
sponsors the event.  For more information please 
call (805) 962-2571, or email 
margie at sbpermaculture.org,  www.sbpermaculture.org.

Quotes about Housing from the book:

“The Union of Concerned Scientists ranks housing 
third among destructive human enterprises, just 
after transportation and agriculture.  But our 
housing need not be destructive.  Again we can 
chose !  We can chose human scale, enhancing our 
connections with those we love. We can chose 
eco-scale, reducing our demand for the kind of 
energy that is disrupting life now and for future generations.”

“Construction has some alarming effects on the 
environment.  Forty percent of all the raw 
materials humans consume, we use in 
construction.  Building an average house adds 
seven tons of waste to the landfill!  New house 
construction is arguably the single greatest 
threat to endangered species, even in areas where 
human population is on the decline, animals and 
plants are threatened each day, due to the 
construction of new houses. Might our houses feel 
more comfortable if they weren't so destructive.”

“Throughout North America building has been 
influenced by "green thinking", and houses have 
improved, but despite major advances in 
insulation and design, the typical house built 
today requires as much energy to heat and cool as 
one built in 1960. Why? Because it's bigger. 
House size and location are the greatest 
determinants of a home's effect on the 
environment.  The challenge is to build a single 
family housing as efficient as a New York City 
apartment, which, on average uses a fraction of 
the energy of a typical detached house.”

Tour organizers
For Updates on Tour contact Santa Barbara 
Permaculture Network margie at sbpermaculture.org 
www.sbpermaculture.org 805-962-257  also check 
Shay Salomon Website  www.littlehouseonasmallplanet.com

SCHEDULE TOUR DATES  LITTLE HOUSE SMALL PLANET BOOK TOUR  Jan 17-Feb 8, 2007

Jan 12 Fri 9-10am & Mon Jan13 9-10am  Radio 
Interview Sustainable world Radio www.kcsb.org 
91.9 FM Santa Barbara with Shay Salomon

Jan 17 Wed 7:30 pm .San Diego World Beat Cultural Center, 2100 Park Blvd
contact sdecc at igc.org (619) 255-6111 San Diego 
Permaculture Center & SDECC www.sdecc.igc.org

Jan 18 Thurs 7pm? Laguna Beach Bill Roley Bill 
Roley drroley at cox.net 949-413-2524 cell (still waiting for details)

Jan 19  Fri 6:30 ­ 9 pm San Juan Capistrano
Center for Universal Truth 27121 Calle Arroyo 
Ste. 2200, San Juan Capistrano, CA 92675 949-481-4040
Cost: $25 for Organic Dinner and Slideshowor $5 
for Slideshow only (begins at 7:30
Contact "Deanna Moore" <moodea at wildmail.com> (949) 981-8067

Jan 20 Sat 10am Los Angeles David Kohn  Audubon Center at Debs Park:
4700 North Griffin Ave.Los Angeles, CA 90031 (323) 221-2255
Sustainable Los Angeles Lecture Series!
Special Two Part Lecture and presentation:
Free Urban Permaculture Design Course followed by 
Talk and Slide Show Presentation:
"LITTLE HOUSE ON A SMALL PLANET Talk and Slide Show with
author Shay Salomon & Photographer Nigel Valdez
Contact David Kahn <info at sustainablehabitats.org> 1-323-667-1330

Jan 21 Sun 8pm LA Ecovillage, 117 Bimini Place, 
Los Angeles 90004 (1 block east of Vermont just 
south of 1st St)  ,Lois Arkin crsp at igc.org 
213/738-1254 $10 (sliding scale okay)

Jan 22 Mon 7:45  Santa Barbara Public Library 40 East Anapumu St Donation $5
Contact margie at sbpermaculture.org 805-962-2571 www.sbpermaculture.org


Jan 23 Tues 7:30 pm Ventura Tues April 25 Art 
Barn 856 East Thompson Blvd., Downtown Ventura 
(between Ash and Kalorama, behind Kids & Families 
Together) contact lynne okun <lbokun at earthlink.net> 805-338-2576. Donation $5

Jan 24 Wed 1pm U.C.of Santa Barbara campus talk 
David Cleveland 805-893-7502/2968
cleveland at es.ucsb.edu

Jan 24 Wed 6:30pm Solvang Library 1745 Mission 
Drive Solvang, CA 93463 (805) 688-4214.Donation 
$5-$10  Betty Seaman cobbetty at gmail.com, 805-698-3840

Jan25  Thurs 6:30-8:30  San Luis Obispo  Public Library 995 Palm Street
Mikel Robertson gouldmund at hotmail.com 805 674 5534

Jan 26 Fri 7pm Santa Cruz Louden Nelson Center 301 Center St. at Laurel St
Contact claudine desiree 
<claudinedesiree at yahoo.com> (831)423-5204. Donation $5-$10

Jan 27/28 Sat/Sun Oakland/Berkeley/SF Raines 
Cohen <rainesc at gmail.com> (planning talks on Sat and Sun)

Jan 29 Mon 7pm  Santa Rosa  New College 99 6th Street Santa Rosa.
Contact dbaker at newcollege.edu 707 568-2605

Jan 30 Tues Hopland 1pm - 3 pm Booksigning REAL GOODS SOLAR LIVING CENTER
Contact Solar Living Institute Kevin Pile 
Kevin.pile at solarliving.org 707.744.2017

Jan 30 Tues 7pm Hopland American Legion Hall 110 Feliz Creek Creek
Contact Solar Living Institute Kevin Pile 
Kevin.pile at solarliving.org 707.744.2017 www.solarliving.org

Jan 31 Wed Arcata ? (still in planning) 
Humboldt  University,  Campus Center for 
Appropriate Technology  contact CCAT Tatton tattonw at hotmail.com 1-707-826-3551

Feb 1  Thurs East Bay evening "Sergio Lub" 
<sergio at sergiolub.com>1-925-229-3600 ex 100
Friendly Favors( private invitation only event)
Cosponsored  Institute of Noetic Sciences and Gaia University Network

Feb 2  Fri evening Sacramento (still in planning stages)

Feb 3 Sat. Truckee CA (still in planning stages)

Feb 4 Sun Nevada City, 7pm  Helling Library Community Room 950 Maidu Avenue
Contact for info: Janaia Donaldson Yuba Gals Independent Media
<mailto:janaia2004 at yubagals.com>janaia2004 at yubagals.com 530-265-4244

Feb 6 Tues Pt Reyes 5:30 -6:30pm  Radio Show 
with   Jonathan Rowe Live interview with Shay
KWMR, 90.5 FM Pt Reyes and 89.3 FM Bolinas West Marin Community Radio


Feb 8, Thurs 7 - 8:30pm Builders Booksource 1817 Fourth Street (Near Hearst)
Berkeley, CA 94710  510-845-6874 service at buildersbooksource.com

END OF TOUR




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