[Scpg] Fri, FEB 15/Sustainable Radio Interview with Richard Register, author EcoCities:Rebuilding Cities in Balance with Nature

Wed Feb 13 18:44:49 PST 2008

This Week on Sustainable World Radio:

Join Jill Cloutier of Sustainable World Radio, on Friday, Feb 15, for 
an interview with Richard Register, author of EcoCities:Rebuilding 
Cities in Balance with Nature, and convener of the 7th Ecocity World 
Summit in San Francisco, CA, April 2008. 
(www.ecocityworldsummit.org). Also, Margie Bushman of Santa Barbara 
Permaculture Network talks about upcoming SBPN Eco-Cities ECO-Film 
Night promoting the Ecocity Summit.

Sustainable World Radio: Friday mornings at 9-10am PST on KCSB 91.9 
FM in Santa Barbara, California and streaming live on 
www.kcsb.org.  Also found on www.sustainableworldradio.com, or 
www.radio4all.net later in the week.

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Upcoming Event:
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from EcoCities:Rebuilding Cities in Balance with Nature by Richard Register)

Santa Barbara Permaculture Network
ECO-Film Night
Eco-Cities: Ecological & Sustainable City Design

Thursday, Feb 21, 7 pm, 2008, Donation, $5
Santa Barbara Public Library, Faulkner Gallery

         Most of the world's population now lives in cities. Will 
these rapidly growing centers of human life be sustainably
designed cities, or out of control slums?

         Join Santa Barbara Permaculture Network as we explore the 
future of cities, with three films that suggest the possibility of 
cities that are not only sustainable, but a joy and inspiration to live in.

         "As we build so shall we live" states Richard Register, 
author of Ecocities; Rebuilding Cities in Balance with Nature, and 
key organizer for the upcoming 7th International Ecocity Conference, 
to be held in San Francisco April 2008. The SB Permaculture ECO-Film 
night will begin with a short film promoting the upcoming EcoCity 
World Summit ( www.ecocitysummit.org), highlighting past and future 
keynote speakers and their visions on how to build and rebuild cities 
and towns based on ecological design.

         Modern cities have been designed for cars, and have the 
potential of grinding to a halt without oil as a cheap resource. Life 
threatening global environmental problems mandate rethinking now the 
way we design our cities in balance with living systems.

Films to be shown:
ECOCITY World Summit, 7th International Ecocity Conference Preview: 
Short film promoting upcoming Ecocity Conference in San Francisco, 
CA, with speakers from past and future conferences, including 2008 
keynote speaker, Jaime Lerner, former mayor of Curitiba, Brazil.

A Convenient Truth, Urban Solutions from Curitiba Brazil: A 
documentary sharing ideas to provoke environmental-friendly and 
cost-effective changes in cities worldwide, focusing on 
transportation, recycling, water harvesting, ecological urban parks, 
and social strategies for affordable housing, that transformed 
Curitiba into one of the most livable cities in the world. Learn the 
story of Mayor Jaime Lerner as he instigated a city and its planners 
to move forward to innovative sustainable city design more than 30 years ago.

City Repair: Visionary architect Mark Lakeman discusses the movement 
that inspired and guides the grid structure of a typical American 
city into a vital social commons with Portland's City Repair Project 
( www.cityrepair.org ).
The event takes place at the downtown Santa Barbara Public Library, 
40 E. Anapamu St, Santa Barbara, CA, on Thursday, February, 21 at 7pm 
for a donation of $5. No reservations required, contact 805-962-2571, 
or www.sbpermaculture.org, 
<mailto:margie at sbpermaculture.org>margie at sbpermaculture.org.

Additional Info:
Richard Register

Richard Register www.ecocitybuilders.org is one of the world's great 
theorists and authors in ecological city design and planning. He is 
also a practitioner with three decades of experience activating local 
projects, pushing establishment buttons and working with 
environmentalists and developers to get a better city built and 
running. He was founding president of Urban Ecology (1975) and 
founder and current president of Ecocity Builders (1992)in Berkeley CA
         He has traveled the equivalent of 22 times around the Earth 
(as of Summer 2003) speaking on behalf of the pedestrian city to save 
the world--by avoiding cars, global warming, massive sprawl, natural 
habitat displacement, air and water pollution and other harms. More 
important, he believes, is the kind of city that can contribute to 
humanity's creative and compassionate evolution on a healthy Earth, 
in an exciting and rewarding built community from village to town and 
city scale. We can build it, he believes, and thinks he knows how.
         Register is the author of ECOCITIES: BUILDING CITIES IN 
BALANCE WITH NATURE, (2002), editor of VILLAGE WISDOM / FUTURE CITIES 
(1997), author of ECOCITY BERKELEY: BUILDING CITIES FOR A HEALTHY 
FUTURE (1987) and ANOTHER BEGINNING (1978).

April 22-26, 2008 in San Francisco, California, the Ecocity World 
Summit (7th International Ecocity Conference)

Throughout Earth Day Week, April 22-26, 2008 in San Francisco, 
California, the Ecocity World Summit (7th International Ecocity 
Conference) www.ecocityworldsummit.org/ will be convening an 
international community of inspired change-makers; courageous 
individuals who are addressing problems of the world's environment 
with thoughtful long-range solutions that are truly sustainable, 
ecologically healthy and socially just.

The International Ecocity World Summit 2008 will focus on key actions 
that cities and citizens can take to rebuild our habitats (cities) to 
be in balance with living systems and in the process slow down and 
even reverse global warming and the effects thereof. Delegates from 
around the world will gather to discuss best practices for 
sustainable city planning and urban design. The conference has 
previously been held in Australia, Africa, Asia and South America.

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