[Lapg] Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands - Talk and book signing w/ Brad Lancaster 9/15

[Sean Jennings]

*SUSTAINABLE SANTA MONICA & THE WESTSIDE PERMACULTURE GATHERINGS
Presents:

         Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands

 Talk & Book Signing  with
Brad Lancaster

MONDAY, September 15, 2008, 6:30pm, 6pm potluck
Santa Monica Main Library, Multi-purpose Room, 2nd Floor

* *         G*et 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 on *Monday, September 15, at 6:30pm* for a talk and book
signing, 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). 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.

The evening lecture takes place at the Santa Monica Main Library, 601 Santa
Monica Blvd,  in the Multipurpose Room, 2nd floor, on Monday, Sept 15,
6:30-8:30pm, and it is FREE (See Below)   No reservations are required.
Please come out at 6pm for a potluck and community before the event.
Sustainable Santa Monica and the Westside Permaculture Gatherings sponsor
the event.  For more information, email westsidepermies at gmail.com,
www.HarvestingRainwater.com <http://www.harvestingrainwater.com/>,

*SPECIAL NOTE: *Due to the fact that the library does not allow book sales
or accept donations, we are asking everyone to buy a copy of Brad's book
BEFORE the event and bring it with them.  Brad has been gracious enough to
speak even though we could not offer book sales, the least we can do is
really stoke him out and have us all show up with his book in hand.  You can
buy the book at http://www.harvestingrainwater.com/books/orders/
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