[Sdpg] San Diego Area Jan 17-19 BOOK SIGNING TOUR& SLIDE Little House on a Small Planet with Shay Salomon Jan 17 / Feb 8 2007 San Diego to Arcata CA , FS

[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  San Diego

Shay Salomon  will be selling her book and giving 
a Slide Show/Talk . Below is a list of locations 
for the tour below  in San Diego area


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 Thus morn/afternoon Design Institute of 
San Diego www.disd.org, 8555 Commerce Avenue, San 
Diego, CA  92121.open to public
Environmental Studies Class.  Thursday 10 am,and the second  2 pm
The class is held in room 404; the address of 
this classroom building is 8515 Commerce (it is 
across a small parking lot from 8555).
(park in spaces marked 8555, go to main signed 
entrance to get directions to rm. 404)
Contact Jane Higgenson "Jane Higginson" <archelonia at cox.net>(619) 444-3337

Jan 18 Thurs Thurs 6pm Laguna Beach Latitude 33 
Bookshop. Address: 311 Ocean Avenue City: Laguna 
Beach State: CA , CA 92651 ... Phone: (949)494-5403, latitude33 at earthlink.net
Contact  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

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  Go to 
either Website for tour dates in other 
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