Earthships Wed April 26 at 7PM CEC

[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

Wesley Roe